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

Today the Animation Union Held a Rally to gather support for our New Deal! It's time to renegotiate contracts with the studios and every one turned out in hopes to improve working conditions in animation Story artists are dire need of a better contract! The Turn out was HUGE! ... Read More

Today I took a walk around the Hollywood Reservoir with my Cannon Ae-1 Program. All though some of the pictures are certainly interesting, this batch came out fairly yellow and under exposed I think. I believe its time to retire this Quantary Lens in favor of OEM Canon lens. I realized ... Read More

For this roll of film I decided to mail of my cannister to the Icon LA, I didn't want to have to drive to Melrose so for a few bucks extra they let you mail it in with a prepaid postage stamp. The processing they did was wonderful but I think there was something up with either the film or ... Read More

I wasn't really satisfied with the digital scans I was getting from Burbank Cam Photo, I think they were only 1500px wide, and some one had already gone in and maxed out the contrast, So I decided to give Glendale Digital Photo a chance based on a recommendation from friend, and the scans I got ... Read More

The first good set photos! I got the the first (good) set of photos back from the lab this week from my Canon Ae-1 Program! I did shoot a roll of expired film on it over christmas but the results were awful. These were taken on Portra 400 These photos came back pretty small so next ... Read More

My Christmas present to myself this year was new Tamron 17-70mm f2.8 lens to replace the 16-50 kit lens from Sony. I found myself mostly shooting with the kit lens so it was time to drop in a replacement that didn't have a variable aperture. I really wanted the extra range too over something ... Read More