I took a few trips to LA in May. Instead of doing all of the touristy stuff I headed out to the mountains. Southern California is gorgeous. I could never live there but I love to visit.
Digital Photography tip #23: if the photo doesn’t pop like you think it should try black and white. A lot of the photos I took off the Angeles Crest Highway did have the drama that I remembered. Maybe it was the haze. A lot of them could be salvaged though by converting them to black and white and fiddling with the filter color.
Here’s some video of navy fighters out of Pensecola flying a race track pattern over the water near the beach between Gulf Shores and Fort Myers in Alabama. One of the cool things about Gulf Shores is the possiblity of seeing stuff like this. If your ever in the area you have to check out the Naval Aviatin Museum in Pensecola. It is amazing.
Here’s video of the sun going down over the Gulf of Mexico. On the horizon you can see some oil or natural gas, I’m not sure which, platforms, and channel markers leading into Mobile Bay. This was taken the week of Thanksgiving.
