Bath Time Photos

Baby Brown Bear Likes the Water, originally uploaded by Gamut's Edge.

I've been meaning to take some bath time photos of our baby for the last few months now. Last night I finally got around to it. The setup for these shots was simple -- Canon Speedlight camera mounted and bounced off the wall. The white bathroom walls and shower door made nice reflectors.

I didn't want these photos to look too nice; no fancy bubbles. Also I wanted to capture some of the crumby tile in our bathroom. Because I just started a new job, we are renting right now. I want to be able to look back in a few years remember how our place looked. Hopefully we'll be living somewhere else. For now, our rental house makes for a nice grungy photo set.

LAX Car

LAX Car, originally uploaded by Gamut's Edge.

This is another from my project to document the area surrounding LAX airport. The hotel in the background is my home away from home. The car was the only car parked in a couple acre parking lot on the east side of the airport,

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Night Over Los Angeles

Night Over Los Angeles, originally uploaded by Gamut's Edge.

This photo was taken shortly after sunset. We were flying at 36,000 feet, and were about 20 miles off the coast southwest of Los Angeles. If you look at the left side of the frame you can see coastal fog creeping into the city.

Normally I shoot nighttime aerials at ISO 3200, f/2.8, and 1/30th sec. I also normally shoot wide angle, >35 mm, at night to reduce blur from camera shake. We were pretty far from the city when I took this picture so I had to zoom in to 70mm. I tried using a faster shutter speed to reduce camera shake blur. What do you know -- it worked! The lights came out a little darker than normal, but they were still pretty sharp, and there was actually less noise in the dark areas than I normally get with a night aerial. I was able to pull the lights up to a normal level in photoshop and I did my usually trick of sending everything dark to complete black to reduce the noise.

Let me know what you think.

LAX Country

LAX Country, originally uploaded by Gamut's Edge.

Maybe this empty parking lot is a sign of the slow economy, or maybe there is a really strong parking planning committee for LAX. The airplane flying over is a Delta Airlines 767.

To get this photo I had to loiter around waiting for an airplane to fly over. I was expecting the department of homeland security to swoop in at any second. This parking lot is probably the best secured vacant square mile of sun-baked pavement in the world. There were security cameras everywhere. Amazingly, I wasn't harassed.

Sunset Over San Diego

Sunset Over San Diego, originally uploaded by Gamut's Edge.

Yesterday when we landed in San Diego the sunset was amazing. This is a view of the southeastern suburbs of San Diego and the desert on the south side of the city.

West coast flying is great. I see something gorgeous everyday.

I wish there was a way to video the descent from the dry desert east of San Diego into the coastal fog at the airport. Maybe I need to rent a Cessna. Anyone have money to donate?

LAX Country

At The Proud Bird Restaurant, LAX, originally uploaded by Gamut's Edge.

I'm in LAX country again. It seems like I overnight in LAX at least once a week. Am I stuck in LAX world for a reason?

To make things more interesting I have decided to start a photo project documenting the area around LAX airport. The landscape surrounding LAX is strange to say the least. There has to be some interesting photos hiding around here.

The above photo was taken in the parking lot of the Proud Bird Restaurant. It's a restaurant/airplane museum located on the east side of the airport -- tasty and educational. I had to take a photo of the German car and American World War II fighter.