The Death of Chillbro Baggins Today we celebrated Chloe's actual birthday at Manhattan beach. Max planned a late afternoon trip to a spot just south of LAX where we could lie in the sand and watch the sun go down. We were treated to chips, cake and a few cargo container ships. I was ... Read More

This weekend my family came out California way to enjoy a relaxing vacation in LA's woodsy'est getaway. (sort by nearest) We rented a cabin together in the hills of Big Bear for some down home cooking, youtube watchin' and plenty of emulated Super Smash Brother. I also got smashed with my ... Read More

On a Hot day in early August, Ilana and I felt like exploring one of my favorite hiking spots in the Angeles forest. I brought my Canon AE-1 hoping to capture some of the local flora and fauna. Switzer Falls trail is a pretty reasonable hike about 30 minutes away from Burbank where your ... Read More

My friend Ilana is Turning the big 3-0 this year so to celebrate we all had dirty martinis and wore our fanciest garments! Also I brought both cameras and a new (old) vintage battery powered Cannon Speed lite 199A for my Canon AE-1p! I was 3 Martinis in when I took this picture So I have NO ... Read More

Gen Invited me to a meet up of the Sketch Toonz LA Group! They meet once a month or so and talk about animation stuff. The group is a bunch of young aspiring animators who either work, or want to work in the animation industry, So basically a bunch of indoor cats getting some much needed ... Read More

Summer is in full swing here in Burbank with temperatures soaring into the 90's most days, but luckily Kendra and Clay are very generous with the pool parties. Last Saturday a few of us gathered together for a day wet and wild summer time fun. Kendra greased up the slide for us. The ... Read More

2 months ago I received a google invite from my good friend Max informing me that Chloe was planning a Big Sur trip. Whether it was actually a trip planned by Chloe, or a mere ruse by Max to get more people to attend, I will never know. What I can confirm is that 9 people packed themselves ... Read More

Way out in Chino California is a General Aviation airport that has one of the coolest collections of old planes you'll ever see! Nathan and I had talked about visiting Planes of Fame, so today we headed out past the madness of LA to dusty valley of the Inland Empire to see some living aviation ... Read More

Travel Town Train Museum in Griffith park is one of my most favorite places in all of LA. Big metal steam powered trains!?!? Count me in! And Ilana wanted to come too! She had been talking about taking photos together for a while now and nothing says photo op like a century year old boiler on ... Read More

After Fleet week I had a little bit of Film left on a roll of Porta 400. So I took my Canon AE-1P out to the LA Kings Burbank Sports center to do some outdoor rink skating! Round and round we go! The coordinator of this event is Gen Wolf! Gen has a put a little community together of ... Read More

Fleet Week is the special time of year when active duty Navy ships come to visit the Port of Los Angeles. Any one can go and see all the cool boats, helicopters, planes, tanks and meet a service member. As well as get an up close view of how your tax dollars are spent. As a fan of big metal ... Read More

It had been a while since I got to hang out with my friend Ilana and Emily! so Friday night we set up a little party and a charcuterie board to have some dinks with Neon Lights! Ilana Prepared the whiskey sours! and cut up some oranges for the garnishes!! The board was picture ... Read More

It's that time of year again where all the leather clad fantasy fury fairies, and and any one who vaguely likes Doctor Who, gather in the Santé Fe Recreational Dam Area to celebrate the ancient tradition of charging 17 dollars for a can of beer! I'm sorry I mean mead! The lines were truly ... Read More

Today was Justin's last day at Rick and Morty, so a group of us work friends decided to go out and celebrate with a bowling ball sized bang. The man himself, Although he is quite funny in real life and full of laughter, will never smile on purpose for the camera. Our first stop was ... Read More

Some would argue that the Spirit of Burbank is the worlds first Mach 2 Fighter Aircraft, while others would say its the smell of soapy cars making their way through a car wash on a bright sunny Day. Some would even shout that it's the name of the Halloween store open year round on historic ... Read More

Today I took the DLSR out to the LA Zoo. I haven't been here in over a year and with a camera lens with this kind of length! it was great to be able to finally optically zoom past the fences and get closer to the animals! and the Anteater was here this time! The seal posed for me while I ... Read More

Animators see what a Sportball is all About! Saturday Night a few of us from Rick and Morty got box seat tickets to a Dodgers game, I've been in LA for 10 years now and never seen a game, so I figured it was time. Plus I really liked seeing what Dodger Stadium looked like when I got my ... Read More

Test Shots from The New (old) Lens I finally got a new lens for this bad boy! I'm all but certain at this point that the Quantaray lens was yellowed and that the shutter was stuck, but this 1979 30-70 f4 seems to be working great! Took it around Burbank and Malibu last weekend to see ... Read More

The weather is getting better and Jack is turning 28, so the discord group set out for the old LA zoo for a little picnic party! I brought both my cameras! I started off with the Canon Ae-1P This would be the first roll shot with the new 30-70mm lens. The colors I got were much ... Read More

Clay turns 34 this year! gosh we're all getting so old. So we celebrated at Kendra's house and had a smashing good pool party! Clay grilled up some amazing burgers from the Handy Mart. An order of 44 burgers wiped out their supplies for the day! Drew spent the most time in the ... Read More