Branden DeFilippo, March 2018.

Edited: 07/25/2021 at 09:01 AM by ww

March 2014. I'd just bought a new camera body that could quickly focus an old used lens I already had.

Edited: 03/19/2023 at 05:58 PM by ww

Logan Hayes, March 4, 2018

Edited: 01/31/2022 at 08:53 PM by ww

South Beach Vero, Oct 10 2013, 228 mm with relatively cheap 75-300 zoom lens and my original Olympus E-M5 camera. Recent editing.

Edited: 01/26/2022 at 11:31 AM by ww

September 25, 2017. f/7.1, 210 mm, 1/1250 sec, ISO 200

Also 210 mm. Most popular pic of the day.

Also 2017, April 2017, old Olympus E-M5 camera, 75-300 lens at 228 mm. I couldn't do much better with supposedly improved equipment.

Edited: 02/21/2022 at 10:05 PM by ww

Not a surfy morning. Lanai across the channel from West Maui, Napili Bay.

Edited: 09/11/2022 at 09:17 AM by ww

Digitizing a few more old Kodachromes. Mt. Rainier, July 1980. Nearby Mt. Saint Helens had blown up and dusted it with ash on May 29.

Best of the sargassum photos. By the 24th, the seaweed all seemed dead and brown. I admit to editing the water and seaweed colors, gently

Newport Wedge, June 4

Craig Whetter

Not all good waves are big ones.

Edited: 09/11/2022 at 09:32 AM by ww

Craig Whetter again

Looks like coaching a group.

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Edited: 10/18/2023 at 06:21 AM by ww

Rome, cheap air fare, really cheap hotel.

Pantheon dome from inside

The Pantheon's a church.

Washingtonia palm at the Spanish Steps. It has a lightning rod!
Caravaggio, the Virgin with her very large Son with pilgrims at the front door. The lighting was awful (construction in the immediate area shut off light) and I could hardly see the painting with my eyes. The camera's viewfinder helped, and the photos turned out great. I'm sure not good enough to be professional, but a nice souvenir. In the St. Augustine Church.
Bernini sculpted David about to kill Goliath when he was 25. Around the corner is a much later St. John the Baptist by Houdon, who was about the same age and went on to do great sculptural portraits of people like Ben Franklin and George Washington. At the incredible Villa Borghese.
Caravaggio. He invented strong contrast. Also Villa Borghese.
Colonna palace, splendid but the art's second rate compared to the much smaller Borghese.
Pantheon's original Roman bronze doors. They've been repaired but never replaced. They were part of Emperor Hadrian's construction project.
Piazza Navona, whose outline is an old Roman chariot race track.
Street near Piazza Navona. Great place to eat.

Edited: 09/16/2023 at 02:06 AM by ww

Glass flower ceiling at the Bellagio, Las Vegas. Dale Chihuly.

University of California at Riverside and some of its agricultural fields. This is the old agricultural experiment station where citrus breeding was done. Major connections to Florida. There's two interstates, so the huge roofs are warehouses for the likes of Home Depot, Walmart, Nordstrom.

Corona del Mar, Orange Co., California. This is the opposite side of the Newport Beach harbor entrance from the Wedge

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Laguna Beach

El Morro elementary school and Crystal Cove

Edited: 08/23/2022 at 07:31 PM by ww

More Laguna Beach.

Newport Beach lifeguarding is big on interacting with beachgoers. The swim fins are Yucca, which has been eager to get them onto the feet of lifeguards and junior lifeguard participants. The fins have spread like crazy, so the marketing must be pretty smart.

Edited: 09/20/2021 at 05:20 AM by ww

In Australia, Shane Vannalo's company, Podware, has its own rubber swim fin factory, and they've figured out how to make the prettiest fins in existence.

Edited: 03/18/2023 at 11:23 PM by ww

Haven't been anywhere near a beach. Right now, can't even drive thanks to shoulder surgery. So a few past pics

Corona del Mar, Newport Beach, from a plane window

June 4 at the Newport Wedge. Most-viewed photo of the day, by pretty big margin. He must have friends. Looked to me like a novice who was willing to try the Wedge (which had plenty of good waves between sets) rather than the more comfortable, and that day, closed-out 15th St.

Second most popular.Cluster at the end of the jetty rip current, major takeoff zone. I think Craig Whetter (Gyroll wetsuit) was holding a coaching session.

Third. Nice portrait, but there's a certain lack of wave. Craig Whetter.

Edited: 01/10/2022 at 09:16 PM by ww

Camp's Bay, Cape Town, South Africa. Plush beach community, 60 degree water (August 2019).

Edited: 03/18/2023 at 11:31 PM by ww

Swim fins.

Top left to right: Limited Edition (Malaysia), Churchill, Viper (Malaysia), ERS4 (Taiwan)

2nd row, L to R: POD2 (New South Wales), Tribe (eBodyboarding, Taiwan), Viper (California), Viper (?), Kpaloa (Brazil)

3rd row: second Tribe, Leblon (Malaysia), Viper (California), Pod 3 (N.S.W.)

Front row: Custom X (?), Yucca (Malaysia), DaFin (Malaysia, I think), POD 2.

Edited: 10/02/2021 at 11:19 PM by ww

Trevi Fountain, Rome. Uncrowded thanks to Covid. It was restored about six years ago. Magnificent and fun.

More Las Vegas.

Heathcote Garden bonsai gallery, getting ready for the Thanksgiving to Jan. 2 light show