Dinorsaur, Jurupa Mountains Culteral Center, Riverside, CA

Dinorsaur, Jurupa Mountains Culteral Center, Riverside, CA, originally uploaded by SoLostAndFound / Bill Lindsay.

So I am driving, you know I do a lot of that.  And for some reason I am on the 60 heading east.  I don't normally use that part of the 60, but i was.  And all my life I can remember going to the Jurupa Culteral Center and I never noticed this Metal Dinosaur.  I think it was the clouds behind.  I loved the idea of the shot, but the out come did not look like I had wanted.  The clouds had a smoggy tinge and the dirty look to them was not something I can remove in photoshop.  I am love the idea of photoshop, but I tend to live in Aperature and shoot to stay there.  Masking and such is just too much.  I want to play with it, I just don't want to play with it.  I know that makes no sense, but if I was speaking the tone of that would have come through loud and clear.  Here are a few out takes.

Thanks for looking.

EXIF Data,

Camera:	Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure:	0.001 sec (1/800)
Aperture:	f/6.3
Focal Length:	300 mm
ISO Speed:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV

Day 32, Newport Beach Temple

Day 32, Newport Beach Temple, originally uploaded by solostandfound.

It is already, a month in to this and I have so many places and ideas to shoot, and so little time. I meant to post this last week, but got distracted and never pulled this off the camera.

As a family, we went on a Sunday afternoon to see this Temple which is so close to us. We have been so busy of late that we just needed to get out as a family and get away from everything. We had a great day.

There is a fountain at this temple to the side, and I tried a few different things but this is the only one that I like. The Angel Moroni Statue glows and the contrast of the water and sky with the spire seem to give the image interest.

Below are the out takes. The photo with the red flowers would have been better if I had changed my aperture. It was so wide open that the camera could not expose the foreground as well as the temple. Next time. I also would have liked to have been there an hour later and I think the lighting would have been better.

As always, thanks for looking.

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Camera:	Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi
Exposure:	1/3200 sec
Aperture:	f/8
Focal Length:	105 mm
ISO Speed:	800
Exposure Bias:	0/3 EV