Welcome to my Photo Journal Web Site. What you will see and experience here, is
first hand knowledge of my photo adventures. If I am on the road, I post my adventures as I go along, usually every second or third day. Otherwise, my postings are just a chronological accounting of my past travels and photo adventures.I didn't take this photo of Tatiana. I did want to pay tribute to this Siberian Tiger though, as she was sacrificed in the name of Public Safety at the San Francisco Zoo due to the apparent carelessness of three people, who thought it would be great recreation to bring sling shots to a zoo. Tatiana was inspired to leap over her cage barrier and mauled all three of them, killing one. She paid for their indiscretion with her life as well, at the hands of apparently big game hunting, trigger happy policeman.
The Santa Cruz (California) Board Walk photo by Jim Huffman
For your very first photo adventure, please click on the above panoramic photo for a really detailed view and an offer to get your very own 4" wide x 40" long giclee print.
This is the family cat, our very own wanna be Siberian Tiger. As a kitten, she would "Spaz" out meaning she would get hyper active, running from one end of our house to the other, repeating endlessly until we got tired. Her name was also "Spaz." Then her name evolved to "Baby" the cat, even though her temperament was still to be very active.
Her other odd feature as a kitten, was an inability to tolerate being petted. If you left her alone, not touching her, she would relax and cuddle on your lap. As soon as you touched her, she would abandon your lap, instantly. Since I was the only one with enough restraint not to pet her, she preferred my lap over the rest of the family. She also has a "born on date" that is close to or the same as the passing of our son Tim. We
often
imagine
that "Baby" is the reincarnation of him. She is very good at doing that for us. As you can observe, she also makes do as an excellent kitten mitten.
2008 Adventures:
| North by Northwest |
My next big ADVENTURE, May 22 to ? |
| Sunny Beach |
A trip to the beach with the Après Ski Club |
| Tu Lips in the Park | Flower shots; from a friends beautiful garden |
| One In A Row | My first photo posting for 2008, five whole pages |
2007 Adventures:
| October | The Balloon Fiesta in Albuquerque, New Mexico |
| Jul, Aug, Sep | Déjà Vu, revisiting New Orleans |
| May | An outing at Harvey Bear Ranch , San Martin, CA |
| January | Four pages of photo adventures |
Archive of Past Adventures:
| World AIDS Day | My daughter Christa and her Masters Thesis. |
| Hummingbird Chronicles | Photo documenting several Humming Bird nests in my patio area |
| Elkhorn Slough | A nature walk with a friend at a nature preserve. |
| Death Valley Days | My first foray into Death Valley via Irvine and Temecula, CA |
| 2006 Adventures | A chronological listing of my photo journals for 2006. |
Personal Pages and Links of Interest
| Rainbows & Sunsets & a Tree | It is what it says it is |
| Local Hikes and Parks | My own recommendations, kind of rough, a work in progress. |
| A Slideshow of a Hike | A hike up Priest Rock trail and down Limekiln trail |
| A link to an audio first person account of 9/11 in NYC | |
| Jerky Recipe | A personally tested and known good jerky recipe |
| Spread Sheet Calculators | Engineering equations and design aids in Excel |
| My Family Pages | Todd, Cindy and Christa,and a memorial tribute to Tim and Nano |
| Weird or Funny Stuff | In my opinion, of course. |
| Spanning several years of forty plus original photos. | |
| Sudoku | A spreadsheet solution to this numerically intriguing puzzle |
| DVDs | My personal DVD Library. |
| Photography Tutorials |
Some basic tutorials on photo processing for size, etc. |
| A Basic Motorcycle Tutorial |
A manual based on my personal experience about the basics |
| Red Cross | Giving blood. |
| Franklin, CA | My first attempt at an autobiographical photo journal. |
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