A Different Perspective...

So here's a new perspective...I grabbed the ole' macro lens and fired away on some flowers for some stock images. This is what came out. -cg

Exploring more SoCal backroads...

No wedding on Saturday means I can go explore SoCal back roads and places of interest. On this particular Saturday the journey took me and a photographer buddy up Highway 33 in Ventura County into Kern County. We captured various interesting structures and even ended up right on top of the San Andreas Fault.

All in all, the photography opportunities were endless....here's a summary of today's images. -cg

I'm standing on the San Andreas Fault in the image below...

No Poppies...no problem :Exploring California...

Yesterday I decided to head to the California Poppy Reserve near Lancaster. To my disappointment this year there are no poppies in bloom so all I got were brown hills. However, as is such with many photography projects, they never go as planned. No flowers, meant no colors, and I had to get the creative juices flowing to salvage the day. On top of that, the wind was blowing nearly 55miles per hour...it was interesting.

Me along with another photographer that joined me decided that we would just go explore the countryside to see what we could discover. What we found was an amazing opportunity  to photograph the countryside of California that not many people get to see (or know is there).

And discover we did. We found some pretty worn down places that I plan to use for photo shoots at some point in the future. Here's a few of the shots I captured while exploring...-cg

Ohh and I rarely get in from of the camera but this place had so much character that I had to take a few environmental portraits.

From the top of Malibu...

Thankfully I had my 5D Mark iii with me on my way home this evening. I noticed a blanket of clouds in the Santa Monica mountains near Malibu so I went to my favorite spot and captured these images. 

They are all different exposures, however, my favorite is the one below. I lit the foreground with the light from my cell phone in order to create a little more depth in the image. It is a 6 Sec. Exposure at 3.2 on a 20mm fixed Canon lens.