A Miniature Splash Mountain

On a recent trip to the beach I found myself with little to do at one point, so I resorted to an act of incredible geekiness: I decided to try my hand at building a sand model of Splash Mountain. I'm not much of a sculptor of any medium, let alone sand, but I found I was able to carve out a rough replica of the actual landmark. No doubt my lengthy amount of experience around the actual thing was of considerable help. Anyway, when all was said and done, I felt my model was worth photographing, and thus the results are posted below.



Here's an aerial shot. I was so pleased with the front of the mountain that I decided to head behind the peak and complete the flume in that area as well.

One last close-up.

In case that doesn't float your boat, here are a few more pictures from the day.




Okay, that's all from me for now!
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Summer PhotoBlog!

Dang, it's been a really long time since I've done one of these. Too long, in fact. I'd better get started right away.


Here's a quick shot I took at Downtown Disney with my new polarizing filter.

These flowers were really hard to edit.


These next few were shot on a college retreat.


Why does this picture make me think of The Lion King?


Random water pipe shot.


Now for a few photographs from an overcast afternoon at the beach.


This shot of the lifeguard station didn't turn out as well as I thought, but it's not terrible.


Finally, a sunset shot of a lonely set of power lines, strung off into the distance.

Wow, it's been a really long time. I need to start doing these more. Hopefully I'll be taking more pics while I'm working at Disneyland this summer.
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PhotoBlog - Christmas Day 2007

Unfortunately, although the name implies it, this PhotoBlog actually has little to do with Christmas other than the fact that these photos were taken on Christmas Day. Even so, I managed to shoot an number of publish-worthy pics of our Christmas afternoon trip to the beach, during which we moseyed along the coastline and did a little tide-pooling. On with the show!































Yes, I know this last pic is overexposed, but I thought it looked kinda cool, so I included it.

Anyway, those are my Christmas beach pictures. I must say it wasn't pleasant at all shooting in those tidepools, as I constantly had to be careful with my camera. Getting arround rocks was a pain. Oh well.

And now for an update on my present condition: I am currently up in the mountains and plan to set out on a snowshoe excursion tomorrow. I'll be bringing my camera along, so hopefully I'll get some good shots. We'll see how hard it is to shoot in the snow. Look for an update in the next few days.

That's all for now. I gotta get back to a Scrabble game.
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Class Project PhotoBlog!

Today marked the due date of my final photo project of the semester. This project was hailed by my professor as being my best work, and being the most cinematic, which makes me pretty happy.
Anyway, enough about my class. Here's my project:



















So there you have it - my final photo project. My next project is a video project that I'm working on with three other guys. Hopefully it will be wrapped up within a couple of weeks for posting.

That's all, folks
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