It’s been raining like crazy this last week.

all my favorite pictures in the rain have red in them

The official draft of the differences between HTML 5 and HTML 4 is quite exciting.  The datalist, datagrid, audio and video elements are going to make my life easier

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Exposure: 0.1 sec (1/10)
Aperture: f/36
Focal Length: 55 mm

I always enjoy the beach but sometimes struggle finding ways to make it look *good* or different when taking photos. This photo is one of those “well duh” things that I just realized: Just as a waterfall will look better with a nice slow exposure, so will the rushing tide. 1/10 was as slow as I could get this (should have put on my polarizer) but it came out pretty close to what I wanted…

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Aperture: f/5.3
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Another walk around Burbank another cool photo… love the lines and color in this. My regret is the slow exposure (1/10) that causes it to be a little bury.

I am in the process of tearing my blog apart and putting it back together… I have decided to make my own design since I can’t find anything that I like – it is inspired by http://daringfireball.net more than anything.  The name “finite epiphany” just sounds cool and I needed something cool to put at the top of the blog – I have used “finite epiphany” for several years when I have needed a cool filler title…

Anyways, this place is a mess for now… check back in later.

same picture as another earlier in my stream… a little less post processing on this one. Both just have varying degrees of tweaking in ACR + levels + sharpening.

so… is this better than the other one?

P.S. this blog, this week is dedicated to Mark – here now is a place where he can comment on pictures that I take without digging out his xanga password

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phone booth, originally uploaded by Mike & Corinne.

We were walking down Magnolia last night and came across this decaying phone booth. I wish I had taken it from a different angle than the two that I did, but it came out all right.

All post processing was done in Camera Raw + a little dodge+burning to bring out some highlights.