Category Archives: Orange County

My love is a red, red rose

July 29, 2015 By JoelSax

May 11, 2015. I am not ashamed that I do Instagram. Someone gave us a rose, so I set up this still life.

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Silvia Adobe

July 27, 2015 By JoelSax

April 25, 2015. This small, historic structure is a few blocks from Mission San Juan Capistrano. It seems to be a favorite place for high school yearbook and wedding photos.

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Redscale Sunset

July 24, 2015 By JoelSax

April 18, 2015. This is cheating, of course, and about the only way I am going to get a sunset out of a black and white film. I used an eight-point star filter and redscale film to generate the effect. I hate this cell phone tower. Getting around it requires some acrobatics. Here, I just […]

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The Saddleback

July 22, 2015 By JoelSax

April 18, 2015. Cezanne had his Mont Sainte-Victoire. I have The Saddleback which I have captured from various angles. Redscale is a special film made by Lomography. I enjoy it for the bright orange tones it lends to the pictures. I used a Bronica ETRSi shooting 120 film for this landscape taken along O’Neill Regional […]

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Sycamores at Lago Santa Margarita

July 20, 2015 By JoelSax

May 5, 2015. The north end of the lake is perhaps my favorite. There is a grove of sycamores, an amphitheater, and a rocky point where fishermen like to hang out. I haven’t photographed all of these features, but I have plenty of years ahead of me to catch up.

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Reflections on the Lago

July 17, 2015 By JoelSax

May 5, 2015. The Lago Santa Margarita is a place where I like to go to enjoy a walk. I usually use my cell phone to capture what I see there.

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Black Sage

June 12, 2015 By JoelSax

May 16, 2014 I did not enjoy this wildflower season as much as I did last year’s. The heat brought too many flowers to bloom too quickly and I missed many of the main displays though I did encounter a few species that were new to me including Hubby’s Phacelia. Black sage is a common […]

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Weed’s Mariposa Lily

June 10, 2015 By JoelSax

May 21, 2014 This strange flower grows on rocky ridges in these parts. I found this beauty along the crest of Whiting’s infamous Billy Goat Trail. The ragged edges of this flower are not a sign of decay, but the blossom at its best.

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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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