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The lobster taquitos from Ocean Avenue Seafood in Santa Monica. Have a drink on the Georgian Hotel's veranda, and you can order them!

I am sitting on the veranda of the Georgian Hotel composing this blog on my Blackberry, with the Pacific Ocean in view. Just finished some delicious lobster tacquitos (pictured above). I saw another celebrity today. Ancient comedian Rip Taylor was at the Mel’s Diner on Sunset in Hollywood. He was looking very old but he still has the curly mustache and appeared to be wearing his signature rug under a white straw fedora. He stumbled out the door with the help of a cane, got into a silver Ford Focus, and drove off.

Amanda and I started the day meeting my old college pal Dave at the Hollywood Farmer’s Market. It was good to see Dave for the first time in damn near 17 years. He hasn’t changed a bit.

The famous LaBrea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. This place stinks. Quite literally. Smells like road construction.

Then we went to the La Brea Tar Pits. It was underwhelming. Right now, Amanda is writing post cards. Tonight we go to Dan Tana’s for dinner. Hoping to see a bigger celebrity. Like Clooney, or the guy who played Cletus on Dukes of Hazzard. Peace out.

It’s Air Kelso! I took this in Arkansas over the weekend with one of my film cameras. Pentax P30T on Kodak Portra 160VC. I was going for shallow depth of field to blur the trailer park in the background, but it was too bright outside to get much below f4. Unfortunately Kelso was moving so fast he is a little blurred.

It's a bird. It's a plane. It's a Chocolab?

Not the cutest picture of Kelso, but it does showcase his athleticism.  At any rate, it was fun to shoot some film again.  I must admit that I have been guilty of “chimping” from time to time with my digital cameras.  But, just like riding a bike, I was able to fall back into the whole “I think that will be a good picture” mindset that permeated y film shooting days.

Had a great walk today with wife and dog. Good times!

So we are about up to 7 or 8 inches here at the house at this point. We will probably end up with over a foot before it’s all over. Some closeups from my backyard.

I am totally ready for this stuff to be gone! The view from my front porch this morning.

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While Tulsa is about to get hammered with a snow storm, it is Spring in other parts of the country. And that means March Madness. I dug up this old pic from 2004. Not my best work but I really like the rusty sepia look of it. I also like that it looks like it could be in some inner city somewhere, but it’s in Darlington Park in Tulsa. Hope your team wins. Mine didn’t.

Just testing to see if posterous.com posts to my blog correctly. Picture of Kelso and I.

Learjet 24 ©2006 Phillip Sumner

I ran across an old photo from a promotional shoot for Omni Air Transport back in 2006.  I always liked this photo but kept forgetting to post it here.  This aircraft was later donated to the Tulsa Air and Space Museum.  Not sure what they have done with it since then.  It’s a great old aircraft, though.

Saw this sign back in January on the Apache Trail out in Arizona.  It seemed vaguely familiar to me so I thought I would take a picture of it.  After googling it, now I remember where I saw it.  It was on the back of The Refreshments CD “Fizzy Fuzzy Big And Buzzy”, which I have a copy of somewhere in my old stacks of CD’s from the 90’s.

Anyway, I really liked how it turned out.  Some EXIF data: Pentax K10D, 1/250 @ f 11, 100 ISO.

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I decided a few weeks ago to test a little off camera flash setup I had been thinking about. Still need to work out the kinks, but good ol’ Kelso was a very patient model while I experimented!

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