Beyond Beyond Well Being

It's easy to take a nice picture of the little sand dunes created when the onshore flow hits the sand at Santa Monica.

What isn't easy to riding against the wind. When it really kicks up, it stings the skin and hurts.

A draft of smoke arises from a fire near Malibu, while the rest of the Santa Monica bay remains picturesque.

The clouds slowly roll in, giving the water an almost indoor eeriness.

There's actually a relationship between fires in nearby hills and calm waters in the Santa Monica bay. Fires spread with hot dry winds. Hot dry winds come from the northeast, high pressure in Utah generally. The hot dry winds blow the wave energy away from the California coast giving rise to darkened orange skies and an almost silky smooth character to the ocean.

The image above may not have been taken on the same day as the fire, but when the fires really get going, I'm telling you, the ocean's appearance is amazing. Someday my batteries will be charged when I'm around to see it.

This stylish facade is a government building I believe, can't recall which, though. Clearly inspired by early electronics. You can almost see those little tuning forks snapping back and forth as the current passes through.

A few buildings on Olympic Blvd. in West LA looking toward Century City. The tall building in the background was featured in the very first "Die Hard" movie. The building in the foreground looks like something a Shogun would build if he had the bucks for real estate in West LA.

As if.

Apple's new OS code named "cat" or something like that has a neat little application bundled along for the ride. It's called Photo Booth and it has a few neat effects to make you feel like your creativity is just streaming out of your head, or into it...

So I'm taking a picture of a really cool front door facade. Beautiful, simple, clean architecture. I'm framing things just right and some DUFUS comes into the picture, sits down, lights a cigarette, and starts to talk on his cell phone.

This is the down-side of operating in stealth mode. I am invisible. Of course, if you know I'm there, you can see me, but most don't notice the guy on the bike in the background. This guy certainly didn't notice me taking this picture.