18/52 :: Desert Theater

Last Friday I visited the Desert Theater Nursery with some clients for my landscape design studio. There are more photos from the visit over at Aeonium Design Studio's blog, but here is my photo from last week:

18/52

May 6, 2011

Canon Rebel XT

Gardening Itch

I've been getting the itch to start our garden up again for Spring. We have one "Winter" garden going right now, but I just found these photos from our garden last Spring (links here and here) and I suddenly can't wait to plant tomatoes and herbs again!

While we have a couple of weekends yet until we ramp up the garden, I'm still getting excited...

5/52: Friday night at the Local Bar

Our local bar, really an Italian restaurant with a varied and fantastic beer selection, is a favorite stop for my roommates and I. Its less than a block away from our house (6 houses over and half a block South). On roommate nights we find ourselves walking over there, order scrumptious take away food and enjoying a beer while we wait for our food. This was Friday night's beer selection:

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February 4, 2011

iPhone 4

4/52 : Saturday in the Park

We spent part of last Saturday enjoying the 70° weather, in a lovely San Diego January. I took a lot of film shots of the group playing Kubb and Bocce, so we'll see how those turn out. But this is my shot of the week:

4/52

January 21, 2011

iPhone 4 - Hipstamatic

3/52 : Light it up

So this week I actually took a couple of decent photos on my iPhone. It was a hard choice, but I think 3/52 is this one, that I took at Downtown Disney the other night:

3/52

January 14, 2011

iPhone 4

Some runners ups:

Balboa Theater

Hipster Landscaping

Arizona Highways

1/52 - Taking the California out of California Adventure

Last year I really wanted to do a 365 project, but I'm not very good at stopping to take the time to do a worthy photo for a 365 project each day. This year I've decided to do a 52 week project - one photo per week. I'm not aiming to have an amazing photograph each week, and lets be honest, most of them will be from the iPhone (which, as I've said before takes pretty decent photos). To help keep me honest and fulfill one of my latest goals (being more active in the online communities I take part in) I've joined The 52 Weeks Project on Flickr!

Without further adieu - here's week 1/52:

Taking the California out of California Adventure

Week 1/52

January 3, 2011

iPhone 4 (HDR)

The last night that the 'California' letters grace the entry to Disney's California Adventure.

Photo Friday - Shooting with the iPhone

A fellow Etsian turned me on to this video on fstoppers about shooting a full fashion shoot with the "worst camera possible". Aside from the great joke about Olympus, and the entertaining phone call interruption, its a pretty insightful look at how to do great photography without the greatest camera. Of course you have to have a good shoot set up and lighting, but that kind of goes with out saying anyway.


The iPhone Fashion Shoot - Lee Morris Shoots With The 3GS Fstoppers from FStoppers on Vimeo.


In addition to the video, I'm sharing some of my favorite photos that I've taken on my iPhone 3G (which doesn't have a flash or any type of manual focus):

Dumpster in Downtown LA [Camerabag app]

Chilean Tsunami day - Encinitas [Camerabag app]

Bailey [Hipstamatic app]

LA Gay Rights Rally [straight iPhone camera]

published with NowPublic.com

Disneyland [some photoshop work]

Happy Friday everyone!

Photos from Death Valley

Got a few photos from Death Valley posted on Flickr, including this montage: 

Been super busy lately, and haven't really had a chance/had anything important to write about.

Art Takes

My friend E has started this fantastic  collaborative art blog called Art Takes. Each week she gives her readers a theme and at the end of the week she posts all of the submissions. As an artist you interpret the theme and choose your own medium - its really fun, and this week I submitted my second piece for the theme Portrait of the Artist. I've been using it to get myself out and take goal oriented photographs, which I've never actually done before (I'm more of a documenter than an artist when it comes to photography). My previous post was for Night. I do want to branch out and use different types of media, and I think that this week's theme of Maps will help me to do so.

Check it out!

I'm back! *cough cough*

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Originally uploaded by az.lynn

Back from our family cruise to Mexico (a birthday celebration for my Grandma's 80th)! Other than getting bronchitis - as Taylore says, "What kind of cruise were you on?" - it was a fun 8.5 days, with loads of photos and some card playing and wine drinking.

Slowly I'll get through these photos, although not too slowly, I'm making a dvd of our trip for everyone, and you'll see them start to show up on my flickr page...

June Twenty Twee

Well, at long last, I’m back from my fantastic trip, and actually starting to edit my photos! This may be a personal record for me considering that it is 2 years since my trip to Europe and 8 months since my trip to Africa and I still haven’t made a real dent in editing or posting any pictures. We’ll see how long it takes me to get through the Ireland and England bunch. Check out some fisheyes of my lomo

Anyway, truly excellent trip!!!! Which I really needed. Apparently I’ve been so stressed out that my body decided that having shingles would be an excellent way to do a trip (I’ve certainly had worse on my travels). Luckily I had it for over a week before we left, so I got through the painful stuff at home.

In Ireland we had some really great experiences, saw much of the country (which really is as beautiful as everyone has made you think it its), had sunny gorgeous “adventure perfect” weather, drank a lot of Murphy’s and Guinness, and drank A LOT of Jameson. We also sang that song that goes, “My baby takes the morning train/ he works from 9 to 5 and then/ he takes the train back home again/ to find me waiting for him” by Sheena Easton. I don’t know why, but Chris got it stuck in all of our heads. There was also a plethora of Lady Gaga, Shania Twain, and Lily Allen. Someday soon Taylore will complete a movie of our trip and I’ll post it here somehow - it will give a much better account of our hooligan-ish antics than I can here.

England, likewise, was fantastic. The conference was amazing! The English Riviera is beautiful. It was really great to see my UK friends again, especially Holly, Jo, Kathy, Tony, Andy, and Mark as well as the Brasilian girls and Robynn from South Africa. I learned some new stuff (which is always good) and did some networking and work for Shape. After the conference I tagged along with my Mom, Karen, and Jackson for a lovely weekend in London (where I’ve decided I need to move to) and then two more days in Dublin before heading home.

It has been busy since I’ve been back, with family visiting and starting a new job sub contracting with an engineering firm here in San Diego, all the meanwhile catching up with friends, family, and applying for all sorts of jobs. There has been loads going on in the almost two weeks I’ve been back, and I’ll catch up on that at a later date.

Some People Are So Inspiring

Fotokids

I’ve heard of this organization before, but until recently had not looked into it. By introducing photography and education into the lives of young people in Central America this organization is giving children opportunities they would never have to travel, learn, and grow up safely. Through their photography, these children are able to bring awareness to the world of conditions in poverty stricken areas of Central America.