That's one big rock!

So this picture is from a few years back. My father , Eva, and I were taking the boat down to Mexico to have the hull repainted. While we were leaving Morro Bay, I took this shot. I did a little post processing on it. Believe it or not, this giant rock was too colorful for me, so I made the rock monochrome. You can still see it's greenish yellow hue in the reflection in the water. This was back when I was editing with The Gimp. Easy software to use, but not as extensive with the filters as Photoshop.

Sony DSC-P100, ISO-100, f/5.6, 8mm, 1/250 sec.

I to the world am like a drop of water

So in 2005 I took a trip to Maui with Eva to explore and visit family. We were exploring the beaches and I saw these waves breaking on the rocks and the sight was epic. I grabbed her camera and started shooting away. I think I took 20 pictures just to get this one exactly right with the waves and the mist coming off of it. The lens was a little damp at this point so please excuse the blurry sections. I also ran this through a few plugins in photoshop in order to get some more detail out of the flying sea water. Point and shoots aren't the best, but her old Sony was pretty good for taking these pictures. Well, I would have sat there all day if Eva hadn't dragged me away kicking and screaming, but it's ok, I got loco moco right after that so I didn't complain much after we hit the restaurant.

Sony DSC-P100, ISO 100, 24mm, f/5.2, 1/160 second

Don't Bogart That Joint!

So, I took this back in 2007 on a trip to the states while living abroad. In 2007, I was living in Sweden and Eva and I took a trip to visit my family in the states for a month or so. On our trip I got to act as a tourist since I didn't get to live in a US city. I got to revel in a double-double, drink piss water american beer and enjoy it's low cost. A bottle of Budweiser at the "liquor store" in Sweden was $2, and that is ONE normal long neck bottle. Eva was not very familiar with drug culture in america nor was she very interested, but I took her for a tour of the Haight and after we grabbed a pint at the Magnolia brewing company, I snapped this shot. Mind you there are more colors at that intersection, but I was feeling artsy fartsy to I removed all colors except blue from the image. I like how it came out. BTW, I did the color editing in Gimp which is what I used up until last week.

Sony DSC-P100, ISO 100, 24mm, f/10, 1/125 second