A couple of snaps from a short hike off of dirt Mulholland in the Santa Monica Mountains. It was so clear if felt like you could just reach out and grab Catalina Island. GFX100s. Sigma 135 Art.
GFX100SSIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM A017 lens135mmf/2.81/3200s100 ISO0.0 EV
GFX100SSIGMA 135mm F1.8 DG HSM A017 lens135mmf/2.01/640s100 ISO0.0 EV
RustyBug wrote:
Makes me wanna just say "Tell her I said, Hi." ... almost like I actually know her (of course, I don't, but ... )
Curious about Catalina Island, too. Anything of it while you had the clean air?
I'll tell her. She's right next to me on the couch. It's like your shots of the bridge there in St. Louis. I feel like I know it a bit better even though I've never been there. About Catalina, the longest lens I had was the 135, which is more like a 110 or so on that camera. I did shoot a couple of snaps of that and downtown. I'll see what I can find tomorrow.
Dave_E wrote:
Just goes to show Peter put great tools in the hands of a real Pro and wow.
Dave
Thanks Dave. Nothing planned here but Gee does take direction very well and we've been shooting formal and informal shots for over fifteen years now. I think mostly we just go out and have fun with it.
Nice image Peter... Love the accordion sound, it adds life to music..
I remember as a kid going over the Catalina to camp on backside of the island @ Two Harbors back in the early 70's. We actually had bison come down into the campsite which for young kid, was quite jarring. Being able to see Catalina from the mainland back then wasn't all that easy but thanks to AQMD, a lot of that has changed in the past 15 years.
Majestictone wrote:
Nice image Peter... Love the accordion sound, it adds life to music..
I remember as a kid going over the Catalina to camp on backside of the island @ Two Harbors back in the early 70's. We actually had bison come down into the campsite which for young kid, was quite jarring. Being able to see Catalina from the mainland back then wasn't all that easy but thanks to AQMD, a lot of that has changed in the past 15 years.
Good Times ....
Albert
Albert. I had a buddy with a pilot's license when I was at Art Center College in the early 80's and we used to go out to El Monte airport and rent a Cessna 172 and fly over to Catalina for lunch, hang out for a few hours and fly back. A pretty hairy landing there at that little airstrip where a lot of small jets skidded right off the runway. Takeoff from there, OTOH, was weird. The instant you were past the end of the short runway, you were a thousand feet in the air, which was weirdly reassuring. Back then you could count of thirty or forty "smog alert" days a summer, especially out in the Pasadena area, where you often could not see the mountains three miles away, but today, it's been many years since we've had a single smog alert day. Not just the AQMD, but the gradual attrition of older, dirtier cars from the roads have made the biggest difference along with biannual smog checks on vehicles over eight years old, and the biggest difference in vehicle pollution has been in the regulation, much to the disappointment of the trucking industry, of all of the diesel trucks working in and out of the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro taking all those foreign goods to the Amazon distribution centers out in Ontario and beyond so we can all have next or same day delivery on everything we need in our lives. HowEVER did we get along before Bezos came along.
Peter Figen wrote:
Albert. I had a buddy with a pilot's license when I was at Art Center College in the early 80's and we used to go out to El Monte airport and rent a Cessna 172 and fly over to Catalina for lunch, hang out for a few hours and fly back. A pretty hairy landing there at that little airstrip where a lot of small jets skidded right off the runway. Takeoff from there, OTOH, was weird. The instant you were past the end of the short runway, you were a thousand feet in the air, which was weirdly reassuring. Back then you could count of thirty or forty "smog alert" days a summer, especially out in the Pasadena area, where you often could not see the mountains three miles away, but today, it's been many years since we've had a single smog alert day. Not just the AQMD, but the gradual attrition of older, dirtier cars from the roads have made the biggest difference along with biannual smog checks on vehicles over eight years old, and the biggest difference in vehicle pollution has been in the regulation, much to the disappointment of the trucking industry, of all of the diesel trucks working in and out of the ports of Long Beach and San Pedro taking all those foreign goods to the Amazon distribution centers out in Ontario and beyond so we can all have next or same day delivery on everything we need in our lives. HowEVER did we get along before Bezos came along.
Back in 70-72 when you were outside playing all day and by 5PM, you chest would hurt just breathing in that rich air... I grew up in Pico Rivera, around the corner from the old ford Motor plant. Biannual Really WOW ....I sure don't miss it. West Texas suits me just fine... 10 acres of no neighbors and few coyotes, snakes, + a water well to keep about an acre of it plush and green during the summertime.
Majestictone wrote:
Back in 70-72 when you were outside playing all day and by 5PM, you chest would hurt just breathing in that rich air... I grew up in Pico Rivera, around the corner from the old ford Motor plant. Biannual Really WOW ....I sure don't miss it. West Texas suits me just fine... 10 acres of no neighbors and few coyotes, snakes, + a water well to keep about an acre of it plush and green during the summertime.
Yeah, but can you do Butch Hancock's West Texas Waltz?
Majestictone wrote:
I did choose my partner carefully and she graduated from Texas Tech...
UCLA gal here. We'd consider Austin for the music but even more for the coffee. Just had my morning cup of Mozart's Coffee Roaster El Gato Negra from Lake Austin.
Peter Figen wrote:
UCLA gal here. We'd consider Austin for the music but even more for the coffee. Just had my morning cup of Mozart's Coffee Roaster El Gato Negra from Lake Austin.
I do remember you telling for your affinity for that El Gato... I just ordered a bag now...
Really 