Huntington Beach (South of Pier)

Orange County has some very beautiful beaches. Huntington Beach (aka Surf City USA) has a lot of great photo spots. Last Thursday, we went south of the pier to attend my wife's company picnic. Even at the beach it was 94degrees (f), so it was a scorcher.

Still had time for some fun and photos.

Weekend in Lake Arrowhead

Hidden in the San Bernardino Mountains, Lake Arrowhead is a mountain oasis in the desert. Although I didn't capture any of the gorgeous Stellar's Jay's while visiting this weekend, I was able to capture a nice shot of a Doe and a Woodpecker.

Doe:

-EF 100mm-400mm @ 400

- ISO 100

- f/10

- 1/30 sec

Woodpecker:

- EF 100mm-400mm @ 400

- ISO 500

- f/5.6

- 1/500

Ah, San Diego

There are a lot of places in San Diego to take great photograph. I was on vacation with the family, but managed to take a couple of decent early evening shots overlooking Seaport Village, as well as the classic Sea World stuff.

The Shamu shot:

- Canon 50D

- EF 100-400mm f4.0/5.6 L, @ 200mm and f/5.0

- ISO 100

- 1/1000 sec.

- Limited post processing in Lightroom

The Seaport Village shot:

- Canon 50D

- EF 24mm-105mm f/4.0 L, @ 24mm and f/4.0

- ISO 200

- 3 exposures, using "Auto Exposure Bracketing" @ 2 step increments

- Post processingin Photomatix