Colorful paddle boat's at Shoreline Lake

This is Shoreline Lake in Mountain View, CA.  I shot this on an overcast morning.  Colorful paddle boat's just waiting for someone to come and ride in them.

Beautiful day at the lake

Beautliful day at Shoreline Lake

Man setting up to fish.

I just happen to see this man setting up things to fish.

At carshow

 Photo shot at Mountain View Live.

All about my photography

Hi, I am totally new to this blog thing.  This is my first one.  It was suggested to me by one of my best friend's Deb.

I have a passion for photography, I have always had a camera for as far back as I can remember, I was always taking shot's of something, or candid shot's of someone.  I was laid off my job 2 1/2 year's ago.  This was when I decided to do something that I loved.  

I started trying to photograph for stock photography, with my little point and shoot.  Needless to say, my photo's were rejected all but 2.  I was excited about the 2.  Soon after that, I got my  first Canon Rebel xsi, with the kit lens (18-55mm) I knew nothing about photography (just the regular point and shoot).  I did not know how to turn the thing on, so, I took out my owner's manual, with my camera in front of me and, started learning how to work my camera.

This led me to googling what I wanted to know, and YouTube tutorials.  From there, I just started googling tutorial's for any and everything.  I soon discovered that I wanted another lens (28-135mm).  Then I discovered Brian Peterson, and bought about 4 of his book's, plus watch his video's.

A few month's went by, and Canon came out with the T2i, with video, 18mpx (or whatever it is called).  Yep, I bought that one too.  Then I just had to have at least one "L"Len's (70-200mm)so-o-o I bought it.  Then I discovered macro photography, and wanted a macro lens, I bought a Canon (60mm), later I found out that I should have at least gotten a (100mm) I was not about to buy another one so, I bought the Kinko extender's, this was perfect, because I got 3 together.

Since my 70-200mm is big and heavy, I did not want to have to change that thing, so, it stays on one camera, and I interchange the other one.

After a little over two year's of being self taught, I came to a standstill,  I Was "stuck", all of my photo's looked the same to me.  I decided to go to a workshop, but I did not find any that didn't cost a lot or that I felt good about.  I found one and hired Chris H. for a 4 hour workshop.  One of my better moves.  I learned a lot from him.

Living in CA, there are so-o-o many scenic places to go and shoot, a lot of them are close to me.  I'd like to drive down part of the coast line, and shoot some of that.