A quick walk around Los Algodones, Mx

Lots of senior citizens come to Yuma for the weather and to get their dental, optical, and prescription drugs. Here are a few photographs of Los 'Algodones. One is a street artisan that paints with spray cans and other media. A local Restaurant. Prescription prices and people waiting in line to get their drugs.

The top photo is of street performers.. the bottom one senior citizens enjoying their lunch in Los Algodones, Mx.

Here is a photograph of the Green Door..A popular bar in Algodones,mx. I have never been in it but I have friends who have and really enjoyed the experience.

My final photograph is of a character. I asked him if I could take his photograph and he said "Sure."

Time for some dental work in Mexico

Left Quartzsite on January 16th and headed for Yuma, Az..the snowbird capital of the west.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Yuma is the sunniest place on earth. Of the possible 4,456 hours of daylight each year, the sun shines in Yuma for roughly 4,174 hours, or about 94% of the time. Because there are so many winter visitors Yuma has 3 super Wal-marts. The population of Yuma is 97,000.

About 20miles west of Yuma is Los Algodones,Mx. This is a Mexican border town the is highly that serves the retirement community of the USA with Dental,Optical and Prescription drugs at a huge discount..
Here are some photographs I took in Los Algodones.

The first photographs are some I took at the dentists office..Notice the people in the waiting room

This is my dentist Dr. Martinez working on yours truly..Took this photo with my IPod.
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Quartzsite - here I come

Left Hollister January 7th and headed to Quartzite Az..This isn't my first time there..its about my 5th..

What is Quartzsite?
Quartzsite, in western Arizona, is just 20 miles east of the Colorado River on I-10. From Phoenix, the trip to Quartzite is about two hours. It is also easily accessible from Los Angeles.

The population year round is around 3400 people..the Average age is 66...

Nine major gem, mineral, and 15 general swap meet shows are very popular tourist attractions, attracting about 1.5 million people annually, mostly in January and February. Most of the people come to Quartzsite in Rv's. There are lots of Rv Parks. There are thousands of Rv's dry camping in the desert. Lots of Snowbirds come to Quartzsite because of the weather. No snow and very little rain.

Quartzite likes to be known as the "Rock Capital Of The World"
Here are some photographs of the rock show and various rocks you can buy from various venders.

Here are some of the venders:

Its been a fun Year

Its been a fun year...to bad it goes by so fast...The older you are the faster it goes by..This will be the last post of the year... One more vineyard panorama from a vineyard in Morgan Hill..

I took a day trip to my favorite beach in Pacific Grove..The waves were too small but I managed to put two photographs together for an ocean panorama..

December is the month I usually house sit my brother's dog Skipper..Dig those eyes. He is a cutie.

While house sitting Skipper I took two panoramas from the living room windows. The first one was taken early in the morning.
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The second panorama was taken at sunset.

 
I want to wish everyone a Happy New Yeard

Last day of the month vineyard photographs

Last night I got a call from one of my photography friends, asking me if I want to go to take photographs of  a local  vineyard. The fall colors were absolutely beautiful.. here is one photograph  that I took early in the morning:
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 Then I thought I would add some fog in Photoshop to give it an early morning look:

Here are a few more photographs that I took this morning..It was a fun day taking the photographs and preparing them to put on my Blog..

Outside my window this morning

I looked outside my window and grabbed my iPhone 3gs to take this photograph.. I used the               TrueHDR app. You can see the edge of the window frame in the lower right side of the photograph.

Yesterday I took a walk around the park and took this photography of poison oak growing on a tree.
I made the image look more painterly in Photoshop with a couple of Topaz plug-ins..

Neat app for iphone and ipad

I read about a new app called Big Lens on the internet..it cost me .99 cents to buy it..this is the first photograph that I did with it so don't be too critical... It has quite a few effects included, besides softening parts of the photograph like a long lens would accomplish.. here is a before example of Damien, my favorite phone guy at Costco:

After: