Oceanside Pier

24 March 2012:
I am in Oceanside taking a photoshop class on Saturday and Sunday. Went for a photo walk on the beach in the evening. Very nice evening.

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King Harbor Breakwater

18 March 2012:

30+ knot gusts. Salt spray on glasses and lens. Things were sloshing around a bit out on the pond this morning.

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Corner Office

17 March 2012:

It is time to get back to practicing with the camera. This is today's low key image.

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Kelp

11 March 2012:
I went on a walk again in the Paddler's Cove or Bluff Cove area of Palos Verdes. Besides the big signs warning surfers about recent great white shark sightings, I found more material for my 'beach abstract' series. Here I attempted to find something interesting in the huge piles of kelp that were on the beach. I like the bright orange material sprinkled in amongst the very dark green kelp leaves and pods.

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Redondo Beach Bench

From 4 March 2012:

Found on a walk in Rivera Village, Redondo Beach

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Image from Paddler's Cove

4 March 2012

From a photo session at Paddler's Cove, Palos Verdes, on a gorgeous saturday morning.

I have no idea what made this pattern in the rock.

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Genographic Participant

4 March 2012:

A few weeks back we went to a National Geographic lecture on their Genographic project, started in 2005. They are analyzing patterns in a collection of thousands and thousands of DNA samples from around the world to trace the ancient movements of humans. I decided to add my DNA to the pool. I did my cheek swabs today, and will send it in tomorrow. I will have them analyze the paternal side, and it will likely show that we are descendants of the Sami in Lapland, but we will see. I need to encourage a sister to do this and check out the maternal side to see where that leads. Any volunteers?

nationalgeographic.com/genographic

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