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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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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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Blonde Riding a Coach

April 22, 2015 By JoelSax

This woman was riding a carriage filled with women singing Italian arias. Few people realize that Italian Americans supplied much of the work force in the mines and so did their part to tame the West. This is a very popular photo on flickr. Guess few people can resist a blonde who is publicly declaring […]

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Man in a White Hat on a White Horse

April 20, 2015 By JoelSax

I went to the Swallows Day Parade in San Juan Capistrano last month. It’s a great parade. You will never have seen so many horses in your life, however. The stream of riders, bands, reenactors, and dancers took two hours to pass. It started with some reenactors shooting off their guns to wake up the […]

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Rainbow Train HDR

April 15, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: January 10, 2015 The HDR was an afterthought. I took several sequential photos of this passing train. When I got home and set myself to the task of choosing between them for the shot that would appear in flickr, I realized that I hadn’t moved the frame much. Moved by curiosity, I ran them […]

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Fuchsia-Flowering Gooseberry

April 10, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: March 15, 2015 These came out very early this year. Temperatures were in the nineties — in February! — so many flowers started to bloom. I’ll be looking for Mariposa Lilies in April! The flowers are a favorite of the Anna’s Hummingbird. I’ve been told that you can eat these, but they don’t taste […]

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Keeping Busy

April 1, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: March 1, 2015 What better fool to feature on April Fool’s Day than myself? Cloning involves taking several pictures of myself in a scene. You set the camera on a tripod, adjust the exposure and the focus, then pose yourself or your model in several different places. When you are done, you begin pasting […]

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Common Fiddleneck

March 27, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: March 15, 2015 I found this gem next to the parking lot in Limestone Canyon Wilderness Park. The flowers are blooming earlier than usual this year. In a few weeks, this patch will be brown and forgotten. I shot it with a 200mm lens.

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Climbing the Curb

March 23, 2015 By JoelSax

Date: March 9, 2015 I found this Southern Pacific Rattlesnake sunning himself on the sidewalk. After a few minutes, he decided to move across the road. I helped him by waving cars off. When he got to the other side, he had this obstacle to surmount. I have to confess to a soft spot for […]

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