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More Sailing!

My friend, Anthony, the owner of the Olympic Circle Sailing Club (OCSC) in Berkeley, too a few friends of mine (and me) sailing today on San Francisco Bay. The weather was quite nice. As Anthony says, "There's no bad weather, just wrong clothing." Anthony started the day with an explanation of the landscape of the bay - helping us understand how the tidal changes affects everyone's sail.

Kristie went straight for the helm and loved it!

It was actually a pretty-warm day, but Kristin, Kristie, and Ryan we were all prepared for anything a reality-TV show might throw at them!

As you can see, we eventually found some wind in Racoon Straights! That's ME, doing the piloting!

Hal knew the channel and taught us all the "rules of the road."

Kristie was happy to let her husband, Brady do the driving!

So was Brady!

Not working all day was a dream come true for me!

JP and Anthony reminissed about the Peace Corps

With perfect timing, Anthony brought us back unscathed and slid the J200 yacht right back into its slip. A perfect day!!!

Sailing on the Bay

My new friend, Anthony Sandberg, who started the Olympic Circle Sailing Club in Berkeley in 1979 invited me to go out and "try sailing" with a nice, leisurely Wednesday evening sail.

I had a blast.

It was an amazing three hours (yes, I did have a moment of "...a three hour tour" in my head.

I actually was a bit anxious about going. I was worried I might get sea sick but I was wearing a "Patch" that was supposed to help. At first, I was even more worried, because it was a real choppy day. Happily, the patch worked perfectly. :-)

Upon arrival, I met the rest of the crew (some of which had extensive sailing experience). All were incredibly welcoming and friendly.

The choppy sea made the sail exciting - lots of moving around the deck doing one thing or another - basically making sure all the details of sailing a boat were done correctly (I didn't realize how many people are necessary in making a boat "go"..... After some intense battles with the wind and a lot of LEANING to one side of the boat for balance, we made it behind Angel Island and were able to take a break from the wind. It was gorgeous and exciting all at the same time.

The bulk of the sail included everyone taking a turn at something; and great conversation. These guys were from all walks of life. Everyone, of course, was really excited about sailing - and just being out on the bay, looking back at the the City.

On our way back in, we even had some extra excitement as we figured out that we had an electrical short someplace on the boat - preventing us from using our motor to come back into dock. Anthony calmly explained how he would pilot the boat back in to dock without the motor - yes, he was still calm and teaching! He took a few passes into the marina to see how the wind was acting, and then explained his approach. Everyone helped as he gingerly piloted the boat right back to her dock like a lady's slender foot fitting into a stocking. It was buttuh!

A perfect end to a great sail!

Abstractions

I'm working on experimenting with artificial light. I've been visiting interesting places around Los Angeles, and trying to experiment with different types of indoor and outdoor lighting. I'm getting a lot of interesting effects. I made this image while I was sitting inside the lobby at the Beverly Hills Hotel. The combination of low ambient light made the effect almost dream-like.

The other evening, we stopped at the original Farmer's Marketing in Hollywood and I made this image of a glass of wine I was sipping. The light was cast from an outdoor floodlight, but the effect on the glass was wonderful.

Mother & Child

 

 

I love catching Jessie with Miles when they're playing. There's just nothing like seeing a mother and son together enjoying each other. I made these images over the course of about a 2 minute "moment" while Miles was in between our more formal photoshoots this past weekend. This reminded me why I bought my 105mm lens so long ago. What a great portrait lens!

The Many Hats of Miles

Jessie and I recently did another photoshoot with Miles. We've managed to amass quite a few hats for the boy - and we visualized this great montage of all his hats. We're still working on the perfect arrangement, but thought I'd post this image in progress. Enjoy. Click here for more from the hats series in the Miles only section>>