Day 833 - Fire Hydrant - 08.31.13

Today we met up with some family in Carlsbad, CA for lunch.  After lunch we walked around downtown Carlsbad looking in the shops and such.  One thing we thought was cute was that the city painted their fire hydrants.  This on is like a dalmatian.  Another one had an ocean theme.  This was something I saw today.

Day 832 - Magnifying Glass - 08.30.13

A few weeks back my wife got an OttLite for her birthday.  Attached to the light is a magnifying glass.  This was something I saw today.

Day 831 - Cloudy Sky At The End Of The Day - 08.29.13

I got home as the sun was going down.  I pointed my camera to the sky and bam, today's photo.  this was something I saw today.

Day 830 - Tree Trunk - 08.28.13

This is the trunk of a tree I was parked next to this morning near my house.  It was something I saw today.

Day 829 - Alley Sunset - 08.27.13

I got home this evening just as the sun was setting.  I've taken photos of this alley before.  It makes for a good subject.  It was something I saw today.

Day 828 - Parking - 08.26.13

During lunch I took a stroll to my car and got out my camera.  I decided to just do an experiment with a small aperture just to see what I'd get.  I put my camera on my tripod, set it down in the garage and took this long exposure.  I was curious to see how much detail I could get.  It isn't too bad, but to be honest I wish the photo was more in focus.  Anyway this was something I saw today.

Day 827 - Creepy Doll - 08.25.13

When my son was little, he used to turn this doll around so that she faced the wall. When my wife realized what he was doing we put the doll away.  Now he's all gown up and the doll is back out on display on my wife's piano.  It was something I saw today.

Day 826 - Luke, Han and Leia - 08.24.13

This afternoon I got out some Star Wars figures and my Empire Strike's back album and took this picture.  This was something I saw today.

Day 825 - Two Dancers' Feet - 08.23.13

This evening I did a little photo shoot with my daughter and a couple of her friends.  This one is one of my favorites from the evening.  It was something I saw today.

Day 824 - Grandview - 08.22.13

This is a view of one of the building's at work named Grandview.  I took this as I was walking out today.  The clouds against the blue sky is actually what caught my attention.  Then I thought the building made an interesting contrast.  It was something I saw today.

Day 823 - Downtown Burbank - 08.21.13

On the way home after work I swung by the Burbank train station.  I took 5 minutes to take some photos.  This is the elevator from the station up to Magnolia which as the sign says leads to downtown Burbank.  It was something I saw today.

Day 822 - Bowl Of Fruit - 08.20.13

This is the bowl of fruit on out table this morning.  Very pretty colors.  It was something I saw today.

Day 821 - School's Back - 08.19.13

School started back up today in Burbank.  This is my daughter this morning before school.  It was something I saw today.

Day 820 - Wizard Of Oz Cherry Cola - 08.18.13

I got this soda bottle a few months back.  I've kept it because it is got a great label.  It was something I saw today.

Day 819 - Morning Light - 08.17.13

This morning after cooking breakfast there was a bit of smoke in the kitchen, which made for some very cool streams of light in the kitchen.  It was something I saw today.

Day 818 - ABT Pick Up - 08.16.13

Today we picked up my daughter from her ABT summer intensive program.  She was there almost 3 weeks and today was their performances.  She did great.  As you can see, she was very happy.  She was something I saw today.

Day 817 - Skull In The Morning - 08.15.13

The sparkly skull is still on our dinner table.  This morning the sun was streaming in the front window through the blinds really making the skull sparkle.  I liked the long shadow as well.  It was something I saw today.

Day 816 - Son Of Tomahawk #133 - 08.14.13

I picked this comic book up at a flea market a couple weekends ago.  It is really beat up and falling apart.  I paid a buck which was probably too much, but I was keen on the Joe Kubert cover.  I don't really have any Western comics.  Well this was something I saw today.

Day 815 - North Glass - 08.13.13

I'm moving offices this weekend, which means I've been doing some packing at work.  There are a few things I am just bringing home so they don't get broken.  This is one of them.  This is a glass with North from Rise Of The Guardians on it.  As a department we had several different glasses made for our crew.  So I brought this home and photographed it on my table.  It was something I saw today.

Day 814 - Ghost - 08.12.13

It was a late night at work.  By the time I got home I hadn't photographed anything.  As I sat down to eat dinner I saw this ghost dish and thought I'd photograph it for today.    It was something I saw today.

Day 813 - The Americana Clock - 08.11.13

This afternoon the wife and I spent a little time at the Americana.  The weather was perfect. I snapped this photo of the clock.  It was something I saw today.

Day 812 - Bedazzled Skull - 08.10.13

Today I woke up at 3AM and started working on my second Halloween mix for this year.  I previously did a mix of only Ennio Morricone music which is a sort of bonus mix.  Today I began building the more traditional mix which is an eclectic mix of Halloween or kind of Halloween songs and audio clips.  I worked from 3AM to about 8 and then I took a nap.  I got up at 11AM and then got up and took some photos for the cover. I used this photo as the basis for the album cover.  If you want to see the final cover check out sapmusic.blogspot.com in October when I post the mix.  The final image is quite fun I think.  Well after playing with photos for a bit I continued mixing songs until about 4 in the afternoon.  I have 82 minutes of fun music mixed.  Phew, what a long day of work.  So now you know why I was taking photos of a bedazzled skull in August.  It was something I saw today.

Day 811 - Steve's - 08.09.13

Today at lunchtime I had enough free time to break away from work.  I called up my wife and we met at Steve's a great hamburger stand near our house.  We had a nice lunch eating outside.  The weather was perfect.  This was something I saw today.

Day 810 - Triathlon Team Banner - 08.08.13

The Triathlon team at work had a charity fundraiser silent auction this evening after work.  This picture was taken in the morning when banners were first put up.  It was something I saw today.

Day 809 - Stones Line - 08.07.13

This morning I took a slight detour on my way to work and drove down to the beginning of a walking path along the LA River.  At the beginning there was this sort of interesting stone landscaping thing that I photographed.  It was something I saw today.

Day 808 - Disney Records - 08.06.13

These are a couple records a friend at work gave me last week.  I brought them home today.  They are something I saw today.

Day 807 - Mini Wrestler - 08.05.13

Yet another silly toy in my possession.  This guy is about an inch tall.  He is some sort of masked wrestler.  I'd say he's a luchador, but I'm not sure he was supposed to be from Mexico.  I think these toys were just part of a line of littler wrestlers.  I could be way off on that, thought.  I took this photo on our nice white table, which is proving to be a great place to photograph toys.  It was something I saw today.

Day 806 - Cold Cherry Coke - 08.04.13

Today while out and about with my wife, we found ourselves extremely parched.  We decided to pop in the Fair Oaks pharmacy for a fountain cherry Coke.  This one is the one I had.  It hit the spot.  It was something I saw today.

Day 805 - Bubble - 08.03.13

This evening my wife and I went to the Americana at Brand.  We had dinner at Katsuya.  It was yum, yum good.  Afterwards we walked around the looking at some shops.  We went in to the Olive Oil joint and Sur La Table.  In front of Barnes and Noble there was a vendor selling bubble blowing guns.  I snapped photos of the bubbles.  The challenge was to get one in focus and to do it before some giddy child popped it.  This one came out exceptionally well I think.  You can read Barnes and Noble i the reflection.  You can also see me taking the photo which is kind of cool.  This was something I saw today.

Day 804 - Shoe Shelf - 08.02.13

When I got home this evening I saw that my wife had bought a nice little shelf thing for our shoes.  Keeps things much more organized.  It was something I saw today.

Day 803 - Music Loving Teddy Bear - 08.01.13

This evening when I got home from work guess what I saw.  No it wasn't this teddy bear listening to Eric B and Rakim.  I saw these headphones lying by my computer.  That gave me the idea to take their picture.  Then once I was setting up to take a photo the creative juices started going and I picked up this Teddy Bear, which I had as a child, and my iPod and posed this photo.  It is a bit of the absurd, but that's fun every once in a while.  So this was something I saw today.