Dooms day was held behind this door

The access hatch to a nuclear missile silo

Once again, its the Oban festival 2010

Click on the link above to see the photo album from this time around. Some of my favorite pictures this year are of the flower arrangements.

The taiko drums were excellent as always...

And to go to a Japanese festival and drink American beer is not wrong. I prefer to drink my rice, thank you.

Summer storm

     So after a short day I went up to Pasadena to take pictures of the old buildings that have been renovated and try to capture a bit of the feel of the old city that if you look carefully you can still see and with a little bit of thanks to the city for posting plaques that give the histories of some of the famous people and places in the area.

     I went from the alleys of old town, churches, city hall and the public library as an afternoons adventure.

Always check your rear view mirror

Check out those pipes

Spoon

Candles

More candles

Glass review...

The lens on the left is a recent purchase that I got because I was so thrilled with the lens on the right which is a Angenieux design that is f/2.6 at 28mm and f/2.8 at 70mm and this war horse is built like a tank and weights just about as much to.

The lens on the left is a 20-35 f/2.8 that I am not getting any thing close to stellar results with, it is a dual aspherical element design with one in front and one in back but the images come out unreliably soft through out the range of aperture settings. This is too bad because the lens does not show much barrel, pin cushion distortion, or fringing when wide open so it looks like I more than likely have a questionable copy of this lens.

Back to my well loved Nikkors, love the glass.

Checking teeth

The forgotten 13 steps

The gates

Rose Bowl fireworks

Impalla

Urban Art