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This is San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica - a beautiful wide road and median lined with cool-looking coral trees. I came here to take photographic advantage of the thick fog that rolled in tonight.
Traffic was light, so I used a 30 second exposure to capture as many cars as I could. I used my Gorillapod on a drinking fountain to hold the camera steady.
In other news, I posted photos from the <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Animals/Aquarium-of-the-Pacific/">Aquarium of the Pacific's Photographers Night</a> that I attended on <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#1005785536_bhSsx">9/12/10</a>.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#656042406_WnGFQ">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Utility/Radio-Paradise-Collection/i-dgXGD2m/2/2d55e1d3/L/2010-09-20%20Coral%20Tree%20Traffic-L.jpg)
_09/20/10_ Coral Tree Traffic This is San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica - a beautiful wide road and median lined with cool-looking coral trees. I came here to take photographic advantage of the thick fog that rolled in tonight. Traffic was light, so I used a 30 second exposure to capture as many cars as I could. I used my Gorillapod on a drinking fountain to hold the camera steady. In other news, I posted photos from the Aquarium of the Pacific's Photographers Night that I attended on 9/12/10. [last year]
![<span id="date">_09/02/10_</span> <span id="title">Hearty Pages</span>
Get it? The pages look like a heart. It's very clever. I am sure I am the first person to have thought of it.
Sarcasm aside, it does look cool and I wanted to give it a try myself. Turns out the pages don't align themselves very well when you do so many, although that might be due to the super-thin pages of this Bible that I used for the shot. I actually kind of like the irregularity.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#638085989_X5Nco">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Utility/Radio-Paradise-Collection/i-KL6xkG2/3/8d947f4c/Ti/2010-09-02%20Hearty%20Pages-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_09/06/10_</span> <span id="title">Beach Swing</span>
I had a great day off for Labor Day today, did you? Please answer aloud so I can hear you through the internet.
We had a lovely picnic with a friend at Malibu Bluffs park, just across PCH from Pepperdine University. It's a community park with fields and playgrounds, but also has trails that lead through natural vegetation. It was a really nice place and I highly recommend it.
Afterward lunch we drove down along Malibu Road where rich people have beach houses and 'private' beaches with public stairs leading to them. Underneath several houses were these swinging benches that you definitely needed a ladder to get on. Kind of random.
I like this shot, but if I had my way I'd go back after sunset and use a tripod and a slow shutter speed to get the dusk colors and smooth out the ocean waves. I suppose I can do it after I buy one of these houses.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#641686592_6QCA6">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Utility/Radio-Paradise-Collection/i-2LtCrRN/3/22e585f4/Ti/2010-09-06%20Beach%20Swing-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_09/20/10_</span> <span id="title">Coral Tree Traffic</span>
This is San Vicente Boulevard in Santa Monica - a beautiful wide road and median lined with cool-looking coral trees. I came here to take photographic advantage of the thick fog that rolled in tonight.
Traffic was light, so I used a 30 second exposure to capture as many cars as I could. I used my Gorillapod on a drinking fountain to hold the camera steady.
In other news, I posted photos from the <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Animals/Aquarium-of-the-Pacific/">Aquarium of the Pacific's Photographers Night</a> that I attended on <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#1005785536_bhSsx">9/12/10</a>.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#656042406_WnGFQ">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Utility/Radio-Paradise-Collection/i-dgXGD2m/2/2d55e1d3/Ti/2010-09-20%20Coral%20Tree%20Traffic-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_11/03/10_</span> <span id="title">Tomato Drops</span>
Our dinner leftovers came in a container that had a lot of condensation on the metallic lid. That, combined with a bunch of tomatoes my wife cut up presented a photo opportunity I didn't want to pass up. Edited in Lightroom, with most of the credit going to the Color CP 2 preset.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#702796207_ZVMKS">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Utility/Radio-Paradise-Collection/i-8XMwsM5/2/4756b5e1/Ti/2010-11-03%20Tomato%20Drops-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">_11/17/10_</span> <span id="title">Sprouting</span>
This plant looked cool anyways, but it was extra interesting the way the sun was only shining on the top. I added vignetting in Lightroom to exaggerate that. Cool colors, no?
This evening I got my Tokina 11-16mm lens I rented for my Hawaii trip! It's so unbelievable wide! I'm excited to play around with it, so look for some super-wide dailies tomorrow and Friday. After that it'll be iPhone dailies for a week or so while I'm actually in Hawaii.
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<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#716714280_rEMQu">[last year]</a> <em>one of my favorites...</em>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Utility/Radio-Paradise-Collection/i-z8Z2Vgj/2/9d74438a/Ti/2010-11-17%20Sprouting-Ti.jpg)
Chuck Beehner
on September 22, 2010very otherworldly...like it...a lot!!
paula
warrenfam
on September 22, 2010What an interesting looking tree. Love the action of the car lights.
k dunlap
on September 22, 2010WOW, WOW, WOW!!! THIS IS JUST TOO COOL!
SundaysChildSnapShots
on September 22, 2010Wow! This is almost like a dream.
Janet McQueen
on September 22, 2010Awesome night capture.... such an amazing tree!
whitetree
on September 22, 2010Wonderful night shot.
Tom Reichert
on September 22, 2010love the headlights on one side and the red lights on the other - well done
Pearls
on September 22, 2010Wonderful shot, so are the aquarium shots.
Kerry Milkie Photography
on September 22, 2010Wonderfully compsed - awesome tree
The Curious Camel aka gail
on September 21, 2010What an awesome tree