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September 2002 Timeline: October 2002 November 2002

Mountain Gorilla
Griffith Park, 5 October 2002 		Looks dangerous!
Griffith Park, 5 October 2002 		So human....
Griffith Park, 5 October 2002 		Disney Pavian
Griffith Park, 5 October 2002
With my new SLR, I went to the Zoo in Griffith Park and the Gorilla there became my favourite model.
But actually he was just yawning tiredly, very bored by us visitors starring at him....
 ...every one of these photos really corresponds to human emotions... The missing link is smaller than it seems....
 This Pavian actually has a wart on his nose that looks like an eye out of a Disney animal... The creature itself was far more aggressive looking if you saw its real eyes... This is shot with wide open aperture through wire fences...
Kitty, kitty
Griffith Park, 5 October 2002 		Seagull at the Malibu State Park
Malibu, 5 October 2002 		Flying Pelican
Malibu, 5 October 2002 		Birds in Flight
Malibu, 5 October 2002
Ihm ist es als ob es tausend Staebe gaebe und hinter tausend Staeben keine Welt.... (originally about a Panther)....
Great place to watch the sunset, surfers and lots of wild birds....
 More shots with my new tele lens....
 They would circle across the sea and then suddenly dive straight down from thirty meters up to catch fish using their huge elastic beaks like nets....
Pelican and Malibu
Malibu, 5 October 2002 		More homes of the rich and famous....
Malibu, 5 October 2002 		Bird at sunset
Malibu, 5 October 2002 		Malibu Lagoon
Malibu, 5 October 2002
Homes of the rich and famous in the background....
Shame about the flagpole, maybe I should photoshop it out....
 I will just call them all birds from now on to avoid conflict with ornithologists....
Birds hanging out on a tree in the lagoon....
Birds in the sunset
Malibu, 6 October 2002 		Long beak
Malibu, 6 October 2002 		1600 ISO
Malibu, 6 October 2002 		Malibu Pier after sunset
Malibu, 6 October 2002
in the Malibu lagoon....
...and out for little critters....
 Handheld with streetlight and signpost reflections in the Malibu lagoon....
 With 20 second exposure... The light in the distance is LA starting to glow....
Planes circling over LA
Malibu, 6 October 2002 		American Entrepreneurship
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		My big weekend trip
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Footprint
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002
Visible as little white stripes over LA in the distance waiting to land at LAX....
Open up a scuba shop in the middle of the desert....
 ...I took an extended trip over the long weekend to New Mexico to visit several National Parks... I always wanted to see White Sands after I saw a photo of it once in a tour guide.... I stayed there for an entire day...
The sand is gypsum sand... White and very, very soft....
Brain to body, brain to body....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Colors bleeding into the sand
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Desert Flowers
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Bonsai
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002
...there is snow all over the place - put some warm clothes on....
Many leaves' colors would bleed into the sand and leave trails of pastel colors behind....
 ...washed out colors, pastel colored....
 Looks like a small forest in Winter....
Picnic Area
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Sand Dunes of White Sands National Monument
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Wintersports
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Off to riding the dunes....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002
White Sands National Monument is surrounded by several army bases... Many of them treat the area in the middle of the desert as half beach, half 'winter sport' area.....
Seeing how strong the sand reflected off the sun I covered myself in Sunblock immediately....
 ...most probably Army personnel and their families...
 The woman wore a T-shirt with an American flag entitled 'Unbreakable America' - most definately Army personnel....
Sails in the Desert
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Snow? Sand?
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Every week....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		How many more times....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002
Carpark with BBQ stations....
My body said it was hot, my brain said 'put some clothes on, there is snow everywhere!'...
 ...they close off the park and try out new James Bond gadgets at the White Sands Missile Range....
...shall I mention that this is not snow....
Skiing hut?
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Boundary....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		No sunset....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Dunes....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002
Of course not....
...between the Alamogordo desert and White Sands....
 I came to White Sands because I heard that there is a magical sunset, with the sand glowing red, but there were only grey skies that day, which gave it an even stronger Winter feel....
 Many ripples across the dunes....
Hiking in the sand....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Explorers...
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Sunset....
Alamogordo, 12 October 2002 		Cave Entrance
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002
The sand is amazing to walk upon... It is very soft on the surface, yet you don't sink in deep....
I really like this photo of the three kids walking across the dunes....
 And then I left for Carlsbad....
 Entrance of Carlsbad Caverns....
Deeper and deeper we go in....
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Path to the Main Area
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		How to attract the locals....
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Tripod required
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002
...and darker and darker it gets....
long and winded through the darkness....
...people come from far over to visit the beauty of the caves in Carlsbad... The posters outside the caves however just read 'Eat 500 feet underground!' in order to attract the locals to this picnic place....
 Most pictures here were exposed from 15-30 seconds....
Wonderland
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Stalagmites and Stalagtites...
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Former over thousands of years....
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Inside my nose
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002
...made me feel like Alice....
...lit by flourescent lights, halogen lights and HMI lights depend on how easy it is to exchange the bulbs.... On long-term exposure, the camera gives all the types of lights a different color... To the eye, the lights all looked fairly neutral....
 Shapes of the Stalamites....
 I reckon this is what the inside of my nose looks like to a bacteria....
Rangers....
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Ghost of Carlsberg
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Getting spookier....
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Another ghost of Carlsberg....
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002
There was a ranger guided tour on the other side of the cave, when I shot this one... During the 20 seconds exposure, the ranger lit his flashlight over directly into the camera....
Timer on 20 seconds, I rushed over and released the flash handheld onto my face.... Too bad the background was lighter than I thought, so I ended up translucent....
 ...just imagine bats coming out of this cave....
 Again, I underestimated the brightness of the background... Still is quite a good picture!
Pathway
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Well-lit
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		Smiling face
Carlsbad, 13 October 2002 		River runs through it....
Guadalupe Mountains, 14 October 2002
This was a tricky one... The foreground is weakly lit by three separate, weakened releases from the flash during the long exposure....
Imagine the explorers who first came here in the thirties... Just armed with a torch...
The stalagtites end up creating sculptures of smiling girl's faces with long blond hair... Or maybe that's just my imagination....
 On the final day of my trip I went to the Guadalupe Mountains park to see autumn colors - something I miss a lot living in LA... Unfortunately I was two weeks early.... but it was a beautiful park nonetheless....
Fading green
Guadalupe Mountains, 14 October 2002 		Birdlife in McKittrick Canyon
Guadalupe Mountains, 14 October 2002 		El Capitan
Guadalupe Mountains, 14 October 2002 		Don't mess with Texas
El Paso, 15 October 2002
...and the colors start to come through
I at least had to have a reason for carrying my heavy Tele around....
 Behind it the highest point of Texas....
 Just about 30 different souvenirs with that phrase on it, made me decide to really never, ever mess with Texas....
One day.....
Hollywood, 19 October 2002 		Setting Sun....
Malibu, 19 October 2002 		Malibu Beach
Malibu, 19 October 2002 		Surfer
Malibu, 19 October 2002
...someone here will sell a map that includes my home... I am sure that's what this kid is thinking....
Back at the Malibu Lagoon...
 There is a certain form of wave that this beach is famous for... The surfers can ride a single low wave for almost half a minute....
 ...with the Malibu Pier in the background
Moonrise over Malibu
Malibu, 19 October 2002 		Close-up and cropped
Burbank, 19 October 2002 		Hunt for the lost season
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		Rainy Day....
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002
Reminds me of the West Pier in Brighton....
400mmx1.6... and cropped a bit... The moon close-up....
 After my failed attempt in McKittrick Canyon, I headed out to the San Diego mountains to catch a few autumn colors.....
 ..yet the colors were amazingly bright....
Surface of the Moon
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		Amazing colors
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		After the fire
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		It might as well be....
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002
There was a recent wildfire up in Julian.... That mixed with the rainy grey skies and the desert sunlit in the background created an amazing atmosphere..... Looked like Mount St Helens....
shining through the mist....
 ...the smell of burned wood still lingering in the air....
 ...the surface of the moon....
Farm in the San Diego Mountains
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		More autumn colors
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		My kinda Town
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		The best Pie in the world
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002
Many rich people live up here and up in the San Bernhardino mountains....
Originally I planned to come back the next day to see the trees in sunlight, or the next weekend, but I ended up being sick....
 Named in my honor....
 Next to one of the best Pye's.... in the small town of Julian....
Sun fighting through the grey clouds
San Diego Mountains, 26 October 2002 		Visitors from Scotland
Hollywood, 31 October 2002 		Venus Flytrap
Hollywood, 31 October 2002 		Cheap boob-job
Hollywood, 31 October 2002
...and rendering the highway golden...
Lindsay and Vicki from Owl came over for meetings and ended up staying the night for Halloween....
 Pretty amazing costume.... Quite freaky as well....
 ...kinda looks scary... fitting for Halloween....
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