September 28, 2005

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  Hey, kids, I can’t help it. I know the photopost from earlier hasn’t left the first page of the blog, which sometimes causes older browsers to crash because there’s too many pictures, but you know, usually I can just shovel the words into cyberspace with ease, but you are watching what happens when a really prolific blog (moi’s) hits real life in the posterior, and has to take a breather. You will notice first the almost daily entries trickled to one every two days. Now the “serials” of which there are four or five going on right now, have almost disappeared. And I’m posting two photo entries on the same page. No, it’s not that I’m out of ideas, or don’t want to blog. Conversely, I want to show what I’m interested in right now THIS INSTANT, and it’s since I was going through my Webshots Gallery, where all these photos are stored. (Thousands, I’m not kidding) I noticed that I have a great many photos that approach art (if I may be so delusional to say so) and I haven’t yet featured them on the blog. So while I “surf” and “ooohh” and “ahhh” at my prodigious talents, I thought I’d make a “potpourii” photopost with these photos. Upcoming, however, will be new chapters of the “Sexual History”, which hasn’t been featured here for a while, “Pat and Mike” a story about my ex girlfriend, which I just started writing on September 13th, and “My Childhood in Los Angeles” which was begun in mid August. (And for those of you who haven’t read the first entries, those are links to the last entry in the series, with links to earlier entries.

  
  

  Well, without further ado, here are some “random” images from the Webshots Gallery with astute commentary from yours truly.

  
  

  

  
  

  January 2005: Signal Hill, CA.: The “theme” here will be my “cloudscapes”. 2005 has been a banner year for cloudscapes here in SoCal. We usually have “clear skies” but there was a lot of moisture here earlier in the year. In fact, one of the later photos in this series was taken after a thunderstorm just a week or so ago, in late summer. So, it’s just been a great year for cloudscapes. This one was taken at the top of “Signal Hill Park” at the top of Signal Hill, in Signal Hill, CA, which is right next to Long Beach, where I work. I kind of like the symmetry of this photo, which of course is shot with a wide angle lens.

  
  

  

  
  

  May, 2005: Getty Museum, L.A. This is one of my favorite “photos of art” that I took when I visited the Getty in May of this year.  It is a “Portrait of Vicomtesse de Vaudreuil” by Eliz. Louise Vigee-le Brun and painted in 1785. I like both the angle and the detail, which of course, can be seen better by clicking on the image to bring up the full size photo in another window.

  
  

  

  
  

  August 2005: Lomita, CA: I awoke one Sunday morning last month to this cloudscape. This is taken on the road up into Palos Verdes and is shot into the sun, which was rising at the time, at about 7 or so in the morning. This is all natural, and there is not computer imaging done on this photo, which is a wide angle view of the horizon.

  
  

  

  
  

  1972: Glendora, CA: I thought I’d put this photo of an early “art project” into this series. In 1970, I “constructed” this figure, “Croaker” from stuffed newspapers and one of those clay Mexican skulls. He wears gloves, and is drinking a Budweiser and wearing a cowboy hat. He is full size, about six feet. I took this “guy” with me through many apartments in the 70s, and finally “killed” him on an acid trip back in 78. Here he is in a photo from 1972 in the “living area” of my “suite of rooms” in the second “family home” in Glendora. I took the photo of the photo with my digital camera. I didn’t use a scanner, cause mine is broken.

  
  

  

  
  

  April 2005: Perris, CA And here’s some more clouds. Here shot through a chainlink fence, another one of my “trademark shots”. This was taken in April during a respite from all the rain we had back then, in Perris, CA at the Orange Empire Railway Museum.

  
  

  

  
  

  April 2005: Perris, CA Speaking of Perris, here is the actual Perris Railway station, which used to be a museum but is now abandoned, but owned by the Orange Empire Railway Museum, and eventually they are going to refurbish it and run a train between downtown Perris and the museum.

  
  

  

  
  

  November, 2004: Lomita, CA I’ve shown this composited photo on the blog before, but not since last November, when I took the photo. Actually, this is two photos, taken at different exposures to highlight first the sunset, and next my car, and then pasted together in the picture publisher program.

  
  

  

  
  

  June, 2004: San Pedro, CA. I am shooting out of the mouth of a cave, obviously, and I’m pretty far back into the cave, where it is rather dark, shooting out with a zoom lens. The day was quite muggy, and the sky isn’t blue at all. I would go back on a better day for photography, but I had to actually climb around the rocks for quite a while in order to get to the cave, which is not readily accessible to the general public. Still, makes for an interesting shot, don’t you think?

  
  

  

  
  

  September, 2005: Lomita, CA. This is one of my most recent cloudscapes. I took my camera in to work last week after we had quite a bit of thunderstorms overnight. It was raining and gloomy all day long, but after work, when I went to the bank, I looked up when the rain cleared and the sun came out, and got this glorious shot of the sun. This is one of those photos where you half expect God to walk right out of the clouds. This is in the parking lot of the outdoor shopping center where I went to get money out of my bank that day.

  
  

  

  
  

  October, 2003: Betty Boop as Vampirella: In honor of Hallowe’en next month, I am last presenting this composite artwork from the Betty Boop Pages website of Betty Boop as Frank Frazetta’s “Vampirella”. This was composited in 2003 for Hallowe’en on the The Betty Boop Pages, and the only thing that is actually “original” art are the “cooties” which I “drew” freehand in the windows draw program. 

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