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This picture was also taken on my road trip to Monterey. This is on the way down to Carmel, before we made it to pebble beach. I couldn’t have asked for a better day to take pictures. The clouds were perfect and sun was bright. I just wish the photographer were better 😉 [](/assets/img/2008/09/sunbeach.jpg?ssl=1)Picture taken between Monterey Aquarium and Pebble Beach

This shot was taken at the Monterey Aquarium. Low light, no flash, this was the best I could get.

This happened to me last week. Yet another lesson learned. I was working on debugging some code at work. Someone was complaining about some functionality in an element we draw on screen. In order to better diagnose the problem, I wanted to create an example and see if I couldn’t get the problem to reproduce. Not a bad first step. The problem was that as I wrote out the code I made a typo on the code I was writing. I wrote something like the following snippet: ...

After a short little weekend break, Photo of the day is back. This photo I shot yesterday in Napa. I finally started to experiment with my new defuser. Since the sun was out in force yesterday, I used this light as a fill and ended up with some interesting results. This just happens to be my favorite composition from the day. [](/assets/img/2008/09/wiretree.jpg?ssl=1)Wine Fence at Napa with fill flash

This picture was taken a couple of years ago at a fraternity event. Photographing fire has always been difficult. On one side you have something very bright, and at night, you are surrounded by the darkness. If you flash it, it can wash out. This is what I got. [](/assets/img/2008/08/fire.jpg?ssl=1)Fire pit at a fraternity event