Got a chance to head down south to my old stomping grounds…. San Diego for the weekend. Although it’s only an hour south of Laguna, the place feels like a little mini vacation for me. Seeing old friends, soaking up beautiful sunsets and getting a chance to shoot some good surfing….. A Ok in my book.
February Wallpaper will be up tomorrow!!!
Last week we had 5 consecutive days of rain in Southern California which I can not remember happening for a long long time. Along with the rain came massive swells but for the most part the conditions were no bueño… and when it rains that much the creeks get filled up with some really mysterious sewer water that is not the best for your health.
After the first day of the rains I went down to check the beach and there was literally thousands of balls covering the beach. Tennis balls, golf balls, bouncy balls, you name it and it was there. Those little signs that say no dumping in the drains because the water runs to the ocean….well it actually does.
Below I have posted some shots of the beautiful and the ugly of the rains, when it rains there is rainbows. However, when it rains there is also ocean water that looks a lot like a cup of chocolate milk, not the pristine water you’d like to take a dip in!
Check out the lines of color in the water. What?
Just about passed the one week marker without a new blog posting. Ummm??? Where you guys at? I thought we were going to stay on top of each other with this whole New Years resolution thing. Everyone almost let me slip up there…. team work people. Hahaha
For this post I have decided to post a link to another photographers blog. This is his personal blog of his everyday life and the images that come across his path over the course of a day. His Brooklyn life brings some very different sites than my wave obsessed daily journey does, but there are some interesting picture nonetheless, check it out:
http://suckapants.com/
I had a late last minute birthday gift last night…. which was that found out that I had one of my images featured on Surfline covering the recent swell that we had here in California. I am really excited to have finally gotten something…. here’s to more to come!
I already have a slight addiction with sunsets and after seeing some of the out of this world sunrises this week I may be facing a new one. I am also working on a new wave photo project that is causing some very cold cold wet mornings, images to follow soon. In the meantime, here is the sunrise from earlier this week in Dana Point.
BTW… how many blog posts is that this week? Oh yeah resolution!!!
Ah…. Here we go 2010. What are some of the resolutions that you made for the start of the New Year?
I have several things that I am going to accomplish this year. They vary from different publication goals all the way down to the inner workings of this business…. you know the fun stuff: Book Keeping, Marketing, Branding all the kind of things you really look forward to.
One definite goal is going to be the revamp of this blog. This thing is going to start having some life, for the regulars who do check in here and for the last few years have been disappointed by only an odd post every month here and there, well your days of sorrow are gone. I am setting a goal to make a new post every week. I have read several artistic peoples blogs out there that plan on doing something creative every single day…. wow, baby steps first over here at SporlederArt. One creative posting per week and the wallpapers will be posted on-time as well, I may not be making the best start posting this 4 days after the start of the New Year but I was camping in Yosemite, which is what graces the January Wallpaper.
Please go ahead and click the image below to download this shot from the Yosemite Valley last week.
One more thing… if I begin to slip up on my blog goals for this year GET ON ME!!!! Don’t let me start to slack off, shoot me an email, a text, a smoke signal, anything. I don’t understand why people makes goals to start the new year and then they just kinda of fall away a month or so later. Let’s help each other, tell someone your goal and tell them to hound you about every couple of weeks…. let’s work together people.
Anyways, Happy New Year to all of you and I wish everyone the best in 2010!
