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This field of yellow flowers grows just down the street from my parents’ home. Whilst shooting for the April Challenge, I saw this across the street. As we emerge from an odd winter, this field helps usher in a desired spring.
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As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I haven’t posted a 2008 Challenge shot in a while. I hit a lull, but now I’m back.
This past week, I realized that my commute to work is early enough that I can catch the moon low on the horizon. So I drove one of the days, without my carpool. I hit the beach, just south of La Conchita, near the Santa Barbara and Ventura County lines.
This is what I came up with. I’m kinda proud of this shot. As I was setting up my tripod, I realized that there are usually special guidelines for shooting the moon. I couldn’t remember what it’s called, but the details came back to me.
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Bummer, I missed last week’s submission. Forgive me?
This week’s shot is from the Carpinteria Harbor Seal Preserve. I took the family there to view the newly born baby seals. This is a great time of the year to go see the baby seals on the beach.
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Today’s submission to the February Challenge launches my new color, blue.
When I’m driving home from work in the morning, I get to see some gorgeous sunrises. I stopped today and took this one, looking back east, over the mountains. The focus wasn’t the best, but I was mostly interested in the sky’s beautiful colors at this time of the morning.
I’m also submitting this photo for this week’s 2008 Challenge. My community stretches a bit during my work week. I work an hour’s drive from home, and my drive is quite pretty.
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2008 Challenge, week 5
This week’s photo submission to the 2008 Challenge is represented by one quite simple view to my community, our city limit sign.
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2008 Challenge, week 4
So, this week has been completely soggy here in Southern California. It has rained SOOOO much. I wanted to capture our muddy agricultural world.
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2008 Challenge, week #3
This week my community is in Mammoth Lakes, CA. I’m up for a short week with the wife, kids, and my parents. I was certain I took a beautiful clear shot of the mountains earlier today, but when I went to process it was no where to be found. Bummed out, I took this one after the storm had rolled in. It turned out OK though.
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It’s pretty exciting to see the handful of 2008 Challenge participants. Looking at the diversity and creativity each photographer is demonstrating, I am blown away at the potential for this project to emerge as a great achievement for each of us. Already, I have visions of each of us publishing a nice book of our gorgeous photos and their stories. For those on Flickr, it’s even easier to use an affiliate like Blurb to make a great hardback book.
Way to go! Here’s just a sample of some of the great work that’s been done so far, and it’s only the middle of week 3.
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The USS Ronald Reagan sailed into the Santa Barbara, CA harbor this week. Santa Barbara is the adopted port for this beautiful ship, since it was the adopted home of the former president.
This event is a huge event for Santa Barbara. The ship had been on “float” for quite some time, and the naval personnel hadn’t seen their loved ones for a while. This was the first time many got to see their family and friends for a long time. So, there were families from all over the US, here to welcome their sailors home.
This image is my 2008 Challenge submission for week 2 of 2008. This week, the USS Ronald Reagan was a major part of my community.
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Today marks my first submission for the 2008 Challenge. My goal was to start off with a nice look at my hometown, Camarillo, CA, USA. However, the first week of 2008 has been completely soaked. We’ve had a large amount of rain, for us, and so I’m representing my community by getting a nice bird’s eye view with the beautiful cloud cover.
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