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Yesterday, I went for a hike in Malibu. The Solstice Canyon Loop is an interesting trail to hike. There’s this burnt out old building that you can explore, and plenty of streams and waterfalls. I would have liked to have seen the house before it was burned. It’s sort of tough getting an idea of what it must have been like because it seems like the outside and inside of the house must have been very tightly integrated, sort of like a Frank Lloyd Wright house or something. A tripod would have been very helpful on this hike since it was a little too dark under the canopy for hand held most of the time. Still I managed to make a few pictures of Solstice Canyon.

I had no idea Roger Ebert was so powerful. Thank goodness there is The Thumbs of Fate comic strip to set me straight.

I don’t know why this picture makes me laugh so much. via

The Shatner Woo Remix is 10 kinds of awesome. The David Bowie and Cher Medley is 10 kinds of something else.

I’ve been wanting to get down to the San Diego Wild Animal Park for quite a while now, and since I was taking this whole week off to burn some vacation days I was about to lose, today seemed like the perfect day. I did one of their photo safari adventures. That was cool since they drive you right up to the animals. I got licked by a giraffe, and I got to pet a rhino horn.

If I have one complaint it’s that they didn’t take us into any of the predator enclosures. I guess they’re worried about “safety” or something lame like that. Unfortunately, to my eye at least, all of the herd animals kind of look the same. Once you’ve photographed one of them, you’re pretty much done. If I’m going to photograph something, I want to photograph something exciting like one of the apex predators. I don’t want to photograph, well, food. Anyway, you can see some San Diego Wild Animal Park photos here.

I need to make a String Tripod and see how that works. I’ve tried the trick where you loop your foot through the camera strap, but you have to bend down so much for that it’s almost never very convenient. This might be a better option.

I took a drive up to the Exotic Feline Center in Rosamond to make some pictures of cats.

A local photography group has a May assignment to photograph “Spring Flowers”, so I headed up to Huntington Library and Gardens to make some flower photographs.

They were also doing a Shakespeare in the Garden type of thing, along with all of their other attractions, so I made some photos of all of that as well.

Human Fecal Transplants, and the doctor’s name is Aas. Now, I’ve heard EVERYTHING!

Continuing in my ongoing attempts to make a decent photograph of the moon, I headed up to the Griffith Observatory with my camera. I don’t think I’m there yet. These aren’t the moon pictures I’m looking for, but they are getting a little bit closer. There are a few OK ones of downtown Los Angeles at night in there too.