Friday, April 11, 2008 – On the Water

April in Paris – go to the pond at the Tuileries, or the big round pond in the Luxembourg gardens, and watch the kids launch the little toy sailboats.  It's cool.  April in Los Angeles – go to Naples Island, Alamitos Bay, Long Beach.  We do things right – fancy radio-controlled scale-model sailboats. We are not the French.

A plug for the two guys who were sailing their boats that day –

Other things on the water that day –

The setting, Mothers Beach –

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Technical Note:

Photographs after March 3, 2008, were taken with a Nikon D200 – or a Nikon D70 when noted. All previous photographs were taken with the D70. The lenses used are (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto, or (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. Photography here is modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  The earliest photography in the archives was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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