Photo: U.S. Flag over the Golden Gate Bridge

Photo: U.S. Flag over the Golden Gate Bridge

Photo of the U.S. flag with the Golden Gate bridge in the background.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/1600, F4.5, 50mm, ISO100, 2011-06-18T15:31:13-07, 20110618-223113rxt

Location: San Francisco, CA

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Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Tower Side View

Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Tower Side View

Looking up at the side of one of the towers at an observation deck on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/500, F4.5, 28mm, ISO100, 2011-06-18T14:18:08-07, 20110618-211808rxt

Location: San Francisco, CA

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Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Tower

Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Tower

Looking up at one of the towers on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/1000, F4.5, 28mm, ISO100, 2011-06-18T14:16:56-07, 20110618-211656rxt

Location: San Francisco, CA

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Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Side View

Photo: Golden Gate Bridge Side View

Side view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the beginning of the sidewalk on the San Francisco side.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/800, F5.0, 28mm, ISO100, 2011-06-18T13:42:29-07, 20110618-204229rxt

Location: San Francisco, CA

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Photo: The Golden Gate Bridge

Photo: The Golden Gate Bridge

Photo of the Golden Gate bridge from my visit in June 2011. It got very foggy on our walk back, so the tops of the towers were hazy.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/1250, F4.0, 50mm, ISO100, 2011-06-18T15:29:33-07, 20110618-222933rxt

Location: San Francisco, CA

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Photo: The Homeland

The Homeland

The red Ondura roofing Dad added to our sheds, with our house in the background. We haven’t done any work on the tar and gravel roof. It was installed right before we moved in, 16 years ago (1993-03).

Ondura roofing is widely regarded as biodegradable garbage, but it’s working well for us. Talk to me in ten years. It might disintegrate soon.

The trailer I live in and am typing from now is not visible in this shot. It’s behind the mess of buildings.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/1000, F4, 28mm, ISO200, 2009-08-15T15:50:59-04, 20090815-195059rxt

Location: Thripp Residence, Ormond Beach, FL  32174-7227

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Photo: Bridgework

Bridgework

Under the Granada bridge that crosses the Halifax river in Ormond Beach, Florida.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/320, F3.5, 28mm, ISO100, 2008-12-30T11:06:54-05, 20081230-160654rxt

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Photo: Bizarro World

Bizarro World

In bizarro world, everything looks like this…

Alternate title: Fun at the Cemetery.

Dad and I stopped off at the cemetery to take photos. I didn’t find the tombstones as interesting as this white railing near the pond, though. From this vantage point, the center crossbeams and the beams of the railing on the other side of the walkway line up, but the ones on the left and right are divergent. An interesting effect.

The railing also appears to be slanted, or maybe I tilted the camera a little. Nothing seemed level in this cemetery. I had to watch out, because I almost fell in the water taking this.

I converted to black and white because I liked the look better. Black and white seems a lot more appealing lately.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/125, F5.6, 28mm, ISO100, 2008-11-04T11:55:00-05, 20081104-165500rxt

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Photo: A Thousand Eyes

A Thousand Eyes

Holes in the red-brick wall, by the theater (bldg. 220) at Daytona State College. They made the wall like this because it looks interesting.

I converted this to black and white because the color wasn’t working. The repeating pattern plays tricks on your eyes, if you look at it long enough.

For editing, all I had to do was add contrast and vignetting. The image isn’t perfectly level, but it’s as close as I could get, and I got complete holes on the sides which makes the image aesthetically stronger (because they’re dark).

Think of this wall as a thousand eyes, all staring you down…

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 28-135mm, 1/640, F5, 33mm, ISO100, 2008-11-21T13:55:13-05, 20081121-185513rxt

Location: Daytona State College, 1200 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL  32114

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Photo: Bricks and Sunshine

Bricks and Sunshine

The corner of the Riverside National Bank at 1060 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach FL. It looks interesting by itself. I angled the camera and set this against a blue, cloudless region of the sky. Then, I made the sky dark and the bricks redder on the computer. Ha ha. Always have to do that sort of editing.

This was an interesting study in geometry and architecture, though I don’t think about those things at all when taking photos. I just photograph what looks unusual.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/1250, F4.5, 50mm, ISO100, 2008-09-25T10:13:45-04, 20080925-141345rxt

Location: 1060 W. International Speedway Blvd., Daytona Beach, FL  32114

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