Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year these are a few shots I took at the Bishop Ranch Business Ranch in San Ramon.

Mad T Party California Adventure

This is the Mad T Party at California Adventure, it is like a outdoor nightclub for both kids and adults. Although it is not my type of thing I knew it would some great images. I had to help the software with the use of layer masks and adding images on top and painting in portions of the image. The movement of the people created semi transparent people along with the changing images on the huge monitors displaying the constantly changing graphics confused the software. 

I had shot about 60 shots trying to get different lighting effects, when The man, woman and their daughter walked up and looked at my camera on a tripod and decided to stand directly in front of it. It irritated me at the time but, at least I had plenty of shots. I liked the black and yellow checker board that are spinning into a vortex and how the red seems to be shining on the left side making it look three dimensional. I decided to leave the family in the shot the girl actually appears twice in the image once with dad front center and once with mom on the right.


This is the main stage and a DJ with rabbit ears was scratching records when I was photographing the Mad T Party. I could not get a shot of the main stage because there were too many people and my tripod would have created a trip hazzard. I'm sure there was a way but it had been a long day.


This is the stage located under the arch in the House of Cards.

Out With The Old And In With The New

I took a walk on the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge. The walkway is not complete it is estimated to open in 2015, it still needs to connect to Yerba Buena Island. When I saw the old bridge in the first image I could not help but think of how many times I have crossed it. I thought the new bridge is beautiful but I wounder if white is the best color it looked awfully grimy. I do like the design and it is a lot nicer drive both directions. I also went through the new fourth bore of the Caldecott Tunnel on the way. It was the second day it was open and it was Sunday and there was a backup at the entrance to the fourth bore and hardly nobody going through the other tunnel. 

Shot on 11/17/2013 and the had already started demolition.