Disneyland Weekend

Just got back from a wonderful bachelorette weekend to celebrate K's upcoming nuptials. We stayed at the Disneyland Hotel, hung out at the pool, went on oodles of rides, ate amazing food, watched some World of Color, and had a great time with each other. Here are a couple of photos (for my favorite one of the weekend check out my 17/52 Photo Post):

I highly recommend the Bride Mickey ears - I think they got us a lot of things - like riding in the tail cone of the monorail (a first for all of us)! Anyway - a great time, and a great group of girls - can't wait until the wedding!

17/52: Bride to Be

This past weekend was K's bachelorette party at Disneyland. More photos to follow, but here is this past week's photo for my 52 Week Photo Project:

17/52

May 1, 2011

iPhone 4 (Hipstamatic)

16/52: Mellow Yellow

16/52

April 19, 2011

iPhone 4

15/52: Sunrise in a Rose

15/52

April 13, 2011

iPhone 4

14/52: Some Where Under the Rainbow

From a most recent evening trip to Disneyland:

14/52

April 7, 2011

iPhone 4

11/52: Spring Time in the Kitchen

Tulips are one of my all time favorite cut flowers. Needless to say, when I see them in the store for the first time each Spring, I have a hard time not getting a bunch:

11/52

March 14, 2011

iPhone 4

7/52: Heavenly Work

I really do love my "job". Having my own landscape design studio means I get to run my own schedule. When I get tired of looking at plants on the computer or in stacks of books and print outs I head out to one of the nurseries that I specify from. And this is how I spent Wednesday afternoon - in my own version of heaven:

7/52

February 16, 2011

iPhone 4

6/52: Lawn Games and Building Blocks

I know I'm a little late on last week's photo - so here is a belated Photo Friday post, lets call it Photo Wednesday:


This is the second weekend this year where we have been lucky enough to spend an afternoon in Balboa Park playing lawn games and getting sun. I must admit, living in Southern California sure has its perks. Anyway, after a very intense (and a whole lot of smack talking) match C, K, and I got whipped in a best of 3 match of Kubb by GB, J, and Ky. It was a great afternoon, and one we hope to repeat again soon.


After our match K and my sister started stacking the Kubb pieces and this was the most impressive of structures either of them completed. 

6/52

February 13, 2011

iPhone 4

Kubb? I hear you say! Its a Viking lawn game, involving a bunch of wooden pieces. Check it out here.

Source: Bex Sports

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:

5/52

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

2/52 - Runes & Cards

Runes & Cards

2/52

January 13, 2011

iPhone 4

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]

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Disneyland [some photoshop work]

Happy Friday everyone!