Surf Connection

09/05/2024

This is the best political ad in 2024 maybe Since ' Jib Jab' in Dub Bush's 2nd run.

Feel free to blow this one up! This one's going to the Moon on its way to the Political Ad Hall of Fame.

Kamala Harris has become the poster child for flip-flopping on everything from her ethnicity to policy. She steals policy ideas form her opponent, Donald Tru...

08/07/2024

It is absolutely the best gift you could ever get

08/06/2024

Ohana Canna is the family flower.

Don't those flowers just say aaaahhh

..🧡🌿🧡🌿🧡🌿🧡

08/06/2024

How's this for a slate of candidates? ... In This little surf town?

08/06/2024

The table has been set. The next person you're all here from is the dealer.

In America that's "We the People"

08/06/2024

Gorgeous

08/03/2024

My physician tells me not to take too take in much media, scroll less and take fewer bites and digest in smaller doses.

With that said, is it my imagination or is this woman, Ms. 'Cardona' in the yellow pantsuit a clinical psychologist?

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08/03/2024

If you ever coming up 199 from California stopping to Cave Junction they got a lot of nice places to cool off get some refreshments and food... a personal favorite of mine is the Sportsman Tavern

08/02/2024

This is why you have to drive slow through town!

You don't want to get pinched by a cop and you definitely don't want to miss the clap sign delineating the Fireball, Baby Back ribs with mashed potatoes, gravy, corn muffin at the Sportsman Tavern...
You know across from Taylor's Sausage where you get Trail Buster jerky blowing through town..
yeah that's the place.

07/05/2024

I figured out why Joe Scarborough had to take time off after the debate.

He was complaining of headaches... culprit was his eyeglasses were squeezing his eyes to close together making him narrow-minded.

Joe Scarborough criticizes the decision to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.» Subscribe to MSNBC: http://on.msnbc.com/SubscribeTomsn...

01/08/2024

How did you get interested in photography?

How I got interested in photography? Thanks for asking...

I took a photography class with Ms. Harris at Long Beach Poly High School in 1976. I took to photography as a hobby early with a Kodak instamatic 10. I enjoyed photography and my dad allowed me to use his 1951 Nikon M Sync viewfinder with a light meter he bought duty free in Japan coming home from the Korean War.

1951 Nikon M Sync viewfinder with a light meter
(Which my brother Danny has to this day)

I didn't know it at the time, but using that camera, which was 25 years old by the time I hit that class, provided me with a deep understanding of f-stop, shutter speed, film speed, lighting and framing a subject in the viewfinder.

Ms. Harris gave me a tip which I still use to this day 50 years hence. (If you would like to know this tip just LMK)

For the class we had to wind our own fill canisters, go out and shoot whatever the assignment was, come back, use the black bag or the dark room to unwind the canister onto the developing reel and then develop the negatives by hand tumbling the developer tank.
Dry the negatives, print a contact sheet and then work with the prints that you have.

We would burn, dodge using a Hasselblad enlarger. It was really fun. But obviously surfing was my number one subject so I started shooting Seal Beach South Side in the seventies and Huntington Beach on occasion Newport in the summertime and then on any surf trip we go I actually got a Minolta SRT201 for a pre grad in 1977 which I still have to this day, and no it is not for sale!

Anyhow, that's how I got my start on my photography as a Hobby. I wouldn't consider myself a professional by any means. There's so much I do not know but I do have appreciation for the Art and for framing a subject and choosing interesting subject matter.

One of the benefits of being the photographer on a surf trip is usually getting preferential treatment. The Problem was you could never get anybody out of the lineup to come and shoot while you surfed so I actually have very few photographs of myself surfing.

I must have a few Terabytes or a whole ‘snot load’ of shots of all my buddies and their friends:(...

Once digital came about the whole hobby came to a halt

*1951 Nikon M Sync

*Minolta SRT201
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10/06/2023