day 32: If you looked at my blog earlier tonight you may have seen a different photo. This one was taken later and too cool not to put up so I had to do a switch. Painting with light, see video clip here. Disclaimer: very fun and addictive. Only watch if you have lots of time to waste!

day 31: Today I got a new lens for my camera and I love it!! It is very quick and goes all the way to f2.8 so I can now take much better shots at dusk and at night. We tested it out at the grove.

day 30: You really haven’t seen quality entertainment until you watch five grown men on an easter egg hunt. The photos I took during this new family tradition are hilarious, but really work better as a series than as a single photo. I’m trying out a new picasa slideshow feature below… let me know what you think!http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf

day 29: My brother is in town visiting for Easter weekend so we went down to meet up with him for dinner at one of our favorite restaurants in Encinitas. This one was taken during out wait in the parking lot.

day 28: I am working on the remodel of an existing house that I am convinced is haunted. It is full of dead bees and smells like mildew. Here is a shot from the interior of what will someday be the “screening room”. You couldn’t pay me to live in this house.

day 27: I read somewhere that making people jump was a good trick for taking portraits. I don’t think that this is what they meant when they said it, but I like this one anyways.

day 26: Ben and I went to CVS today to pick up some batteries and picture hanging wire, and were confronted with a massive easter display. Now it may just be me, but I find something very disturbing about an easter shot glass hanging next to bagged cotton candy and a “Dora the explorer” easter pail. What’s next?

day 25: In loving memory of little grandpa.

day 24: We had so much fun watching airplanes yesterday that we decided to go over to the Santa Monica airport to take photos today. I took this one while Ben was watching a helicopter landing.

day 23: There is an abandoned strip of beach in Los Angeles south of Playa del Rey and north of Manhattan Beach. There are nicer beaches to either side of it which ensures long stretches of unpopulated sand. My favorite part of this particular beach is that it is directly below the outbound flight path of LAX which makes it an excellent site for plane spotting.