Category Archives: Nikon D70

Red Diamond Rattlesnake

June 8, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: June 14, 2014 I encountered five rattlesnakes last year. This elder sprawled across a hiking path in Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park that I was descending. I worked my way around him and took several shots with my zoom lens. I don’t believe in killing rattlesnakes. They eat rodents and rodents carry fleas which carry […]

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The Ruins

June 5, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: April 26,2015 An 1812 earthquake brought down this church. For many years, the famous swallows of Capistrano lived on the upper walls. I took this while looking for places to take pinhole photographs. It is fortunate that I got these because I screwed up the winding of my pinhole film and obtained many blurry […]

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Yeah, I can be a smart ass sometimes

June 3, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: April 26, 2015 After I finished taking my pinhole photos, I wandered around with my digital camera as well. Let me tell you this: nothing attracts a photographer like a sign saying that you shouldn’t take pictures, particularly when there is no good reason for it. Am I within my rights? Yep. If you […]

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Near Bright Angel Lodge

May 22, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: September 24, 2015 Who doesn’t love the Grand Canyon? The trouble is finding a viewpoint that isn’t over-photographed. I failed this time.

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Walt Disney Concert Hall

May 20, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: October 18, 2014 Architecture is not one of my specialities — mostly because I am surrounded by houses, bland office buildings, and merely functional industrial buildings including the hideous Oakley sunglasses plant. But put me in an area such as downtown Los Angeles, where I find myself surrounded by the mountains of men, I […]

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San Clemente Pier

May 15, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: January 4, 2015 I make a point to visit this fishing pier at least once every other year. We walk to the end, watch the fishermen, stare at the seagulls, and then take a long walk down the beach to the south of here. We’ve never eaten in the restaurant or fished off the […]

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Gull Distortion

May 13, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: January 4, 2015 Some nights drag on. And on. I set myself the project of getting to know my photoshop program better; so I found this photo of an unsuspecting gull and wreaked a few steps of alteration.

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Cactus Trail 2/6/2015 #2

May 11, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: February 6, 2015 Motion blur had defied me due to the high ASA settings on my camera. I accomplished this by putting a neutral density filter (ND8) over the lens so I could slow the shutter speed.

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Signatures of Light #2

April 27, 2015 By JoelSax

Date:February 14, 2015 I spent the winter experimenting, mostly with a technique called “Intentional Camera Movement”. This is what it sounds like: you take the camera and move it around. This particular image was creating as we were driving home. The jerks were creating by the vibrations of the car and my attempting to sign […]

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Chinelo Unmasked

April 24, 2015 By JoelSax

This was one of the chinelos, a type of dancer from the Mexican City neighborhoods of Milpa Alta and Xochimilco. They usually appear around carnival time when they serve to mock old men and disguise the wearers. Wikipedia says: This dance developed as a mockery of the Europeans with their fine clothing, beards, fair skin […]

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