Happy New Year!

This is a photo I took in December of 2008 of the San Jacinto Mountains which are north west of Palm Springs.  I'm pretty sure I took this with the camera mounted on a tripod that I set up in the bed of my pickup truck.  Exposure was 1/320 at f/11, ISO 100 at 80mm.  I did some minor exposure adjustments in Lightroom .  One of the pleasures I have in living in Palm Springs is that when it snows, we can get beautiful scenery such as this and still enjoy comfortable winter temperatures of 60 degrees.  We haven't seen anything like this so far this winter season but it's still early.  Happy New Year to you and may it be a prosperous one.

What's up Palm Springs!?

Whew... What a day! I got in a little late to the office, did a little of this and a little of that, came up with a set design for India.Arie (lighting is next week) and grabbed a quick dinner and off to Indio for the El Dorado Desert Rock Festival (Benefiting ACT for MS) to take pictures for Palm Springs Metromix and myself.

I had a great time! I met a lot of new people and saw some familiar faces from the first time I went out and shot photos for Metromix and I believe I got many good photos of the bands that played this evening.

So you're probably wondering by now, who or what is Metromix? Metromix is a cool new website geared towards 21 to 34 year old adults who are looking for something to do. It's "your one-stop local entertainment guide on where to go and what to do in Palm Springs, from the hottest restaurants and bars, to the latest in events, music, movies, style, and TV". An opportunity came up for me to take some photos for them last weekend and I couldn't refuse. I basically take pictures of people having a good time out on the town, which is basically what my "Around Town" gallery is all about. You can see pictures that I took at the Red Barn in Palm Desert here and pictures from McCormick's in Palm Desert here.

The pictures from the rock concert are now up on the Metromix website.