The San Diego River

Another photo of the beautiful San Diego River- I hope to take a lot more in the next few weeks.

Mission Trails

I took some nice photos of Mission Trails today.

Definitely one of the most beautiful places in San Diego. It's nice to combine the history of the Padres and the ancient flume, with the Native American spots along the River and the nature, even older than that. I'd love to see a Mountain Lion there, I hear many people have done, the best I have seen is a little turtle, which looked like a non-native, probably taken there from someone's pond.

Butterfly Photo competition

There's a grat competition going on on the UK Butterfly site on of the under 16 entry's is from our friend Olivia Stuart. I like entry 37 a lot, nice pose by the Common Blue.

Here is Olivia's Entry- it really awesome I love she has the butterfly and the bee there in the middle of a perfect yellow sunflower.

Mona Lisa

Is it terribly bad of me not to really care about this Mona Lisa smile? Much as I appreciate the painting I can't see that it is a useful part of anyone's time to discover what clothes she was earing and then research if these are the clothes of a pregnant women. It just seems so unimportant. Ah well I guess there must be jobs for everyone.

Ron Garrison

I was fortunate enough to meet acclaimed photographer Ron Garrison this weekend. Ron was head of photography at the San Diego Zoo for a great many years, and is just the most friendly man I have ever met. He's currently working on the photography for a book about the Katrina dolphins, and was lamenting the fact that he keeps having to travel to the Bahamas- funnily he wasn't getting much sympathy for this inconvenience!

The Antarctic photos are especially stunning- we really is a wonderful wonderful wildlife photographer.

My Own Shelter Photo

I have been playing around with some of my photos, as the only the free time I seem to have lately is when it is too dark to get out and photograph. Here is a photo I took in the Canaray Islands last year. Thinking fo the BBC competition themes- I decided to work with this one. I really like the shelter of the rock circle contrasted with the vastness of the ocean.

And the wedding bouquet.....

Another Favorite Photo

This one is from Hawaii, on my honeymoon: