Classes start!

So classes at MiraCosta started this week and it seems like a good semester for me. The two classes that should help me the most are Digital Photography and Web Design 2. I noticed that MiraCosta is offering a certificate that is now an 18 unit certificate, it used to be 15 but they added a class this year. I have already taken one class towards it, Photoshop 1, and now Digital photography adds to it. That leaves like 3 classes to take and then I can get the certificate. I don't know how much this will help me later, but i think its worth the try.

Palomar Mt.

So everyone has been telling me i should shot Palomar on a weekend. A few of us decided to go pick a turn and shoot it for a few hours before the chargers game on Sunday (what a disappointing end to a good start of a day) We end up leaving a little later than i wanted to, and on the way up we see a sweet spot to park, but there is already a guy with a camera just getting out of his car. But we trek on and find a spot to stop and shoot.

After shooting for a while, I decided I want to get a different shot so I find a spot on the inside of the turn to shoot from. By inside of the turn, I mean the rock face that is half a foot from the asphalt. It was really hard to shoot from that spot because you are blind to riders coming from both directions, so you only got a sec or two to set up the shot. I ended up moving to the inside of another turn that produced a few better shots, but had a very sketchy incident. Sitting on the inside of a turn, I hear the great sound of a twin coming from around the bend, so i get my camera up and ready. As he makes the bend, I start to pan and follow him, but he gets out of frame. I drop the camera to see where he is, and his knee puck about 6 inches from my face. Sean got the whole sequence on his 30D. Pics will be up as soon as he finishes them.

As for my pics, Here is a taste:







1904Photography will be up on Palomar again Sunday morning, Jan. 18.

More Photos can be seen at my:
Flickr

Or all the photos I took can be seen and purchased at:
1904Photography.com

Mt. High

So on short notice I went to Mt. High with my neighbor to snowboard for the first time. I really just wanted to take some pics, but I've never been snowboarding, so I figured why not kill two birds with one stone.

Speaking of killing two birds, this is the second thing i have never done before so far this year. I have to say I am off to a pretty good start for this year.

After I fell a few times snowboarding and had one good hit on the head, it was time for me to start shooting. I have never shot snowboarding either, so there was a little bit of a learning curve as always. Didnt have to much trouble besides the fact that the playground at Mt. High is right below the ski lift and people like to kick off their skis and board on you.

I shot all of the shots with my Canon XTi and 70-200 F/2.8L











More Photos can be seen at my:
Flickr

Or all the photos I took can be seen and purchased at:
1904Photography.com

Ocotillo Wells

So I finally swiped my desert V-card as my buddy Sean would put it. It was a blast hanging out in the desert with a few friends and seeing an out of town friend for the first time in forever.

Everyone was riding a dirt bike or quad but me. I tried to keep up in the Jeep, but that wasn't going to happen any time soon. Sometime during the first day I was trying to follow the guys through a wash and a set of whoops came up and it was verrryy surprising how the Jeep handles them. Not well, we'll just leave it at that. I ended up breaking a Sway Bar end link, which isn't that bad.


Didn't get as many photos as i wanted because it is hard to shoot at the places out there without worrying about getting clobbered by some guy on a bike or quad.

Ill post up some photos that i got once i get them edited and up on the web.

EDIT: Photos are up

365 Photo Project

Even though I am writing this after I have started my project (What?! I was in the middle of the desert, how am I supposed to blog there?) I just gotta say, I started a 365 project that worked out perfect to start on the 1st of the year.

Lets see how this sucker turns out! Should see some progress in the photo's hopefully.