Happy Halloween…

Halloween is upon us, and the Great Pumpkin will rise from the pumpkin patch and shower all the gools, goblins, witches and vampires with candy riches.

Photo by: Kirk Howard Copyright© 2007

While at Arata pumpkin patch in Half Moon Bay with my newest nephew and his mom and dad, I snapped this image of a few gourds just laying around in the afternoon sunlight.
Photo by: Kirk Howard Copyright© 2007

Samhainophobia is a fear of Halloween

Happy Halloween

Holy Fires…

Now that it has been over a week since the fires started in southern California, there seems to be very few left burning. It is not that the fires have nothing left to burn, which fires can always burn something. The fires have been put down, due to the tremendous efforts of the all the fire crews that worked tirelessly to extinguish the deadly flames.

According the Blog San Diego County Wildfires 2007 just a couple wild fires remain. To see all the statistics go to San Diego County Wildfires 2007 Blog. I included a couple images that I pulled from the SFGate.com website. Even in destruction and tragedy you can find some beauty.

Jay Tyrrell...

What’s in a name? Well I have been inspired and intrigued by one of my coworkers. He is an older gentleman that has been working for my company for a few years. I really have just met him.

One day while he was standing looking out one of the large plate glass windows, I approached him. I was just curious to inspect what had caught his eye on the San Francisco Bay. There was a large Norwegian flagged container ship passing in front of our office building. On this container ship were very large blades of those ginormous wind turbines that you would see stalking the windy hills and ridges of the East Bay.

It turns out that this co-worker is an avid photographer. He specializes in large format panoramic images. He is still shooting on film. He has been shooting with one particular camera for years. He says “It’s perfect for the type of shot I am trying to capture”. “The camera gives me more of a cinematographer feel of an elongated movie screen”.

He is working on a series called Wind Army. It is a compellation of Images that he has taken of wind turbines at various wind farms. He was interested in the ship carrying the blades from a turbine, because he said it would fit in his Wind Army series.

You can check out more of the images of Jays “Wind Army” series on his website. Plus you can check out some of his other work there as well. You can also check out Jay’s work on LensWork DVD: LensWork Extended - 72

Website: Jay Tyrrell
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