Airplane and Moon

This plane was flying circles around Old Ft. MacArthur in celebration of the 9th Annual 'Great Los Angeles Air Raid' yesterday.

Rancho Palos Verdes Wildfire (Portuguese Bend)

My husband, daughter and I went out, along with everyone else, to see the fire. As I was heading out the door, I grabbed my camera. Here are some shots my husband and I took.

The 400 plus firefighters and 5 helicopters have tirelessly fought this fire thru the night. As I am typing out this blog post, they are still fighting the fire! These men and women of the Los Angeles fire department deserve a HUGE THANK YOU!!!!










We saw this small fire flare up. Looking at it thru binocluars and the camera lens, you could see that it surrounded by firefighters. They had this fire out in less than 15 minutes!



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Cloud Formations

Yesterday afternoon there were some amazing cloud formations over the South Bay area. I first started taking pictures as I was leaving the Coast Guard base. Then my husband came home, he changed out of his uniform and we grabbed our camera bags and headed out to take more pictures.

I took this photo from Friendship Park.

Los Angeles Zoo

A few pictures from my visit to the L.A. Zoo last week!

Tiger



Giraffe and Baby



Gerenuk


Gorilla


Zebra


Meerkat

Angel's Gate Lighthouse

This evening I went thru some files of photo's that I had taken last summer(2008). I came across this one of Angel's Gate Lighthouse (built in 1913, it sits at the entrance of the Port of Los Angeles) and decided I'd play around with it. When I first edited the original last summer, it is way too blue! Again, inspired by the photos I've seen of San Pedro from the early 1900's, I just had to convert this picture!


Here is the photo after I did the editing last summer. TOO BLUE!!





After the re-edit tonight. I prefer this one!

Thunderhead Over Long Beach, California

You have San Pedro in the foreground, the Port of Los Angeles in the middle and Long Beach.