My Monochromatic Day

Yours truly, checking out the lens’ focus action in the mirror.

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This is a sign at the auto ferry to Balboa Island. I dig these fun, old signs. Nowadays, signs are so sterile and lack style.

For fans of tiki, here’s a swingin’ tub along Balboa boardwalk.

I shot this boiler as it disembarked the Auto Ferry.

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This ferris wheel at Balboa also happens to be where I proposed to my lovely bride. There was no one else riding at the time, so I paid the operator to stop us at the top.

The waves at the beach were pretty high this weekend. You can get an idea how big they were by comparison to the Balboa Pier. I stood on the pier to take a few shots, and it shook every time a wave hit.

I only took this boring shot to show the narrow depth of field on this lens when the aperture is opened all the way to f1.7. The camera was sitting on the railing of the pier.

I always hate the freeway drive home from the beach in the summertime. This is a shot on the 57 Freeway heading north, which we hopped on in hopes that things would be moving along briskly. Boy, were we wrong.

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By the time we reached this point of the freeway, we decided to get off and take streets home. This shot is terribly out of focus.

The long drive home afforded the kids time to read in the back seats.

A shot outside my window while speeding past farms and dairies.

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My lovely bride sitting behind the wheel as we crawl along on the freeway. You can see this lens has nice, round aperture blades.