Category Archives: Orange County

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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Amtrak Passes

June 1, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: April 26, 2015 I took this for World Pinhole Day, one of several I shot in San Juan Capistrano. Mission walls bored me quickly, so I sought out the tracks by the station and waited for one of the many late afternoon trains to pass. I stood about five feet back, but inside the […]

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Depression

May 18, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: July 27, 2014 I live with/have bipolar disorder. The worst part of the catastrophic cycle for me is, of course, the long intervals of depression that follow my extreme manias. This photo is an attempt to recreate the feel of a Rembrandt painting while expressing just how those episodes feel.

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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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Matilija Poppy

April 29, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: May 19, 2009 This was created using the Hockneyizer at Big Huge Labs. As Spring progresses, my anticipation for the blooming of the Matilija Poppies begins to grow. The huge white flowers were considered for the state flower of California but lost to the brilliant, orange California Poppies. You see them along the roadside […]

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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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Life boats

April 26, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: December 7, 2014 It’s World Pinhole Day and I am out taking photos with a couple of cameras. I took this shot last December beside the replica of The Pilgrim — the ship that Dana sailed around the Cape Horn. The day was overcast but clear. I built the camera — a P-Sharan STD […]

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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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