Day 3

Driving around East Los Angeles, you will come upon Mariachi Plaza, where you can find mariachi bands just hanging out. You can hire them to play your event. It's always a blast coming to this plaza. This was shot on my iPhone4 and edited with the app PictureShow using the tilt-shift function.

Day 2

After The RoseBowl Parade very year, they display the floats in Pasadena. I love going to look at the floats up close. It's really beautiful to see all that work. And all done with flowers, seeds and leaves. I am on the mailing list to help with the Burbank float but have yet gone over to help. Maybe this coming year will be the year! 

Day 1

I thought I would start this Project 365 out on California note. So here's a kinda blurry picture of the Hollywood Sign. I was all the way zoomed in on my iPhone4. This photo op spot was super busy. Probably over 20 cars lined this some what narrow street. I plan on coming back up here with my nice zoom lens and shooting this awesome SoCal landmark. 

Happy New Year!!!

It's January 1st and time to make some changes! I've made 3 resolutions. First, I've decided to start a new Project 365. I decided to start today. It makes it so much easier when starting this project to do it on the 1st. It gives you an easy end date. The second resolution, I will not be talking about yet. I don't want to jinx it. So it's under wraps for now. The third is to do a book of photography on a certain topic. It's a topic that I will need help with from friends, I will be discussing it more as the year goes on.

I hope everyone had a safe New Years Eve. And that any resolutions, changes, and/or promises you may have made come true!

And may You kick ASS in 2013!! 

Between The Storms

In California, we've had some major storms come through. There have been many waves of storms. We'll get some really wet weather and then it will dry up. As of right now, it's raining again. It was overcast and dreary this morning with no rain. Now it's raining again. Blech! We've had the sun peak through several times. I decided to just walk up and down the street while we had one of these breaks to take some pictures. 

Holiday Lights

I guess it's technically not too early for holiday lights to go up. Personally, I like to wait until it is December. But since this holiday season started on Thanksgiving for many people, I guess it makes sense that people have put up lights already. I plan on taking more pictures of holiday lights as the season goes on. Enjoy! 

Small Business Saturday

The Saturday after Thanksgiving has been deemed Small Business Saturday. It urges people to shop local, small businesses. Since Black Friday is usually dominated by the big retailers, this is a way to help put dollars back into your community. You can check it out here and here.

I went to a couple of my favorite Small Businesses here in Burbank. One of them is Rocket Fizz. They are a soda pop and candy shop. Each location is independently owned and operated. I got a few Sprecher sodas for the Packer game the next day. (They lost but that's another story.) 

It was getting late and I wanted to make sure I hit up the next business on my list. House of Secrets is an AWESOME comic book shop. I wanted to pick up the next issue of WonderWoman and also pick up some issues of Bat Girl I did not have yet.