being bored in the traffic jam.

today I had the exciting task to drive down to Temecula. A relaxing 500 mile ride...

So I left davis at 7.30 in the morning to be at the starbucks at 6.45 and on the highway at 7.00

A couple of hundred miles later (420 to be exact) I passed Los Angeles and got stuck on the 91 east. 2 Hours later I finally arrived at the 15. From here it's just 35 miles (or 40 minutes) to Temecula....

if the egoistic bank robber would have decided to not rob the bank this day and getting shot another day. It turned out that the cops shot him on the Higway 15 South and closed the only connection to Temecula for me. So I was sitting here and moving at incredible 1 mph, till I got to the section and they (The cops) winked all cars from the highway. As I learned in the DDR, if there is a line, go at the end and wait, you will get something. In this case a police officer led us around the closed part of the highway to a section which was open and I finally could continue my journey to Temecula.

1. left a 6.30
2. arrive in Los Angeles at 12
3. arrived in Temecula at 7.30
4. went shopping
5. lost my car and was searching it for an hour ---> its cold in a t-shirt
6. 10pm arrived at Lindsay's house

So during the time waiting I shot some pictures and the best you can see on top. The taillight of a 2000 Ford Thunderbird.

Christmas is coming soon so my parents though it would be nice to have some pictures from me and Lindsay. A professional photograph was a little bit expensive and hard to find in Davis so we decided to shoot them our self using a simple flash, a remote release and a lot of time. Once we had a handful pictures which where acceptable we optimized them in photoshop, cropped them, transformed them to black and white and done. The hole procedure took about 5 - 6 hours and the next time I need to make sure that the focus point is better and for portraits of more than on person, I should use an aperture of 8 - 11 instead of 5.6. But for the first try I'm quite satisfied.

Right now I'm spending my time in Davis waiting for packages, cause amazon was able to send them everywhere, except to our flat. Which also means that I had to delay my Christmas trip and Lindsay flew already to Temecula :(

fun on a Thursday

• Thai food - 8$
• one beer - 3$
• two slices of pizza - 5$
  
• stealing sushi from Lindsay - 0$

laying down with food poisoning - priceless

• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish
• human kind is not supposed to eat raw fish

it looks like I'm getting somewhere with my photo stuff. More and more people are telling me that I take wounder full pictures and I even sold pictures...

na I sold only 3 pictures so far, but its a start.

anyway time to take an old pictures which I took when I got my camera and analyze it.




Ok whats wrong with this picture?

• the white balance is off cause of the lamp in the background
• its very unsharp, problem is the cheap tripod which I had at this time and the long exposure
  
• there is no clear defined goal in this picture, where I'm looking at, what gives me this picture
• the crop is kinda bad, we could need more space on the right site and take off some of the top part

so what can we do in post processing to optimize it

• we can change the crop
• we can sharpen it a little
• we change the whitebalance
• we can convert it to blacl&white to give it a better mood and play with the contrast
  

today a friend offered me an incredible deal. A complete pc for 100$ So I asked him whats in the box?

A pentium IV 2.4 GHz
1 GB Ram
60 GB Harddisk
A shitty graphiccard
A wireless pci card

so short I bought this box, so that my girlfriend can play her sims game, we have a place to store movies and songs and I can play my stupid eve-online....

But when you buy a pc you also need a Monitor and a graphiccard. So I went to Frys and got a nice 20" Dspaly from samsung and a Geforce 6600 OC + some speakers.

complete price for the package was 500$, which is perfect.


...and tomorrow I go to the garage and get my car fixed.

why do I post a picture of a dinner,

the reason for this is quite simple. On thursday evening I got home and my lovely and now very proud girlfriend suprised me a dinner. It's basically tiny little chicken ( better known as very tasty snacks...) with zuchini and a good glass of wine.

The chicken's are called game hen and which is translates to "Rebhuehner".

mhm what can you do on a visit in temecula late in the night...

basically nothing except for keeping an eye on the shotguns, but thats another story. So I used the chance to hunt the antichrist of photographie....

called cinnamon the cat.

why is it the antichrist? Because it's fast, never stays for a second on one place and have so many different colors. The problem with the colors is if I expose for the white the pictures are under exposed, if I expose for the black, they are overexposed.

result of an exciting hunt at midnight....