A trip to Santa Cruz, Ca

Yesterday we took a ride over to Santa Cruz to watch the surfers

riding the waves. It was a cold beautiful day with lots of sunshine...It's lots of fun trying to capture good photographs with my panasonic fz35 point and shoot camera. My panasonic has a feature called "burst shooting" that works pretty good.. it takes three shots in succession..I am pretty happy with the results but next time I will take my Dslr and see if it is easier..Here are three photographs:  (Click to enlarge)

Happy New Year Everybody.

Combining two photographs

Last week I was looking at some photographs on Flickr..I noticed  some beautiful photographs that were made in Photoshop by combining  a flower photograph with a textured background effect..So I decided to try doing it myself in photoshop...  I also applied a canvas texture to the finished photograph. ..I think it turned out pretty good.. Hope you like it...(Click to enlarge)

San Francisco at Christmas time

On december 12th our Morgan Hill camera club took a field trip to
San Francisco... First Stop was Treasure Island so we could take photographs of the San Francisco Skyline... When we arrived the clouds opened up to provide us a gorgeous sunset. (click to enlarge)

After the sun finished setting we took photographs of the San Francisco skyline skyscrapers all lite up with christmas lights. I used a painterly technique for the following images.(Click to enlarge)

When we were through on Treasure Island we went to the Hyatt in San Francisco to see their xmas decorations..what a sight!