Salutes, flags, uniforms and aircraft fly-bys marked today's Lest We Forget Memorial Day program in Westlake Village. About 3000 attended the event at the Garden of Valor at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park. Enjoy the photos and enjoy Memorial Day! Remember all those in uniform!

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Flickr Lest We Forget photo set

Last year for Memorial Day I put together a list of Conejo Valley Residents who died in previous wars. It's time to update the list and thank all military personnel for their service.



Sunday I revisited the small Thousand Oaks World War 2 memorial at Beyer Park and happy to report It's in good condition.



Photo taken with iPhone Hipstamatic camera app.

This year the list of Conejo Valley residents killed in wars has one new name: Private First Class Brian M. Wolverton, 21, died on August 21, 2009, in Afghanistan. He was a graduate of Oak Park High School.

My list:

Listed on the Beyer Park Memorial for World War 2 are:

Cleon Biddle - Air Force

John Hays - Army

Roy Spain - Army

Harold Wienke - Army

Richard Wienkler - Army

Vietnam Link to National Archives Database

Charles Ivan DeGraw - Army 1968

David Earl Farr - Army 1970

Eric James Hubberth - Air Force 1970

Colin Frank Jackson - Marine 1967

Larry Allan Jones - Marine 1968

John Clarence Shamel Marine 1967

There were no listings for Thousand Oaks in the Korean War in the same National Archives Database

For Iraq/Afghanistan

Sean M. Corlew - Air Force 2002 Newbury Park High School Graduate

Anthony C. Melia - Marine 2007 Thousand Oaks High School Graduate

Francis L. Toner IV - Navy 2009 Westlake High School Graduate

Brian M. Wolverton - Army 2009 Oak Park High School

The links are to the Los Angeles Times California War Dead Database

Photos from last evening using the Hipstamatic Camera iPhone app. For those Hipsters out there, I am currently using the Helga Viking Lens, Blackeys Film and standard flash. These photos were taken along Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.




An A-Team movie ad on bus — wasn't that TV show on in 1980?


I do remember Pigs In Space from the old Muppets show.

The U-19 Newbury Park Boys all star team played this last weekend in the Strawberry Cup soccer tournament held at the new fields in Camarillo. They took second place losing to Camarillo 3-2 on pks after playing to a 0-0 tie.

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A wet rose from Tuesday's rain. Topaz Detail used.

This 18 foot tall fork was placed in Pasadena in the fall of 2009.

2009 Los Angeles Times story

I stopped last Saturday and shot a few images. Then Monday came the news that CalTrans wants the fork removed.

New Los Angeles Times story

Am I bad luck?



Image of the fork after using iPhone SketchMee app.

Sunday was the 50th Topanga Banjo Fiddle Contest & Folk Festival at Paramount Ranch near Agoura Hills. Tonight I uploaded sixty images to flickr. The music was great, but I had to most fun roaming the streets of the Western Town where hundreds of musicians held impromptu jam sessions.

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Flickr set

Of course, I just cannot just post images. This one image went from Lightroom into my iPhone.


Original image


PaintMee iPhone App.


Photo Studio and Pic Grunger iPhone apps.

Enjoy.

I walked out of the office for a break Saturday night and found this upside down car. Of course it was part of a film shoot. Just down Spring Street on Friday night I got the photo below with Los Angeles City Hall.

B-17G flown by the Collins Foundation parked Saturday night at Burbank's Bob Hope Airport. Topaz Adjust used.

Thursday evening was Art Walk night in downtown Los Angeles. I found myself back at the Museum of Neon Art exhibit taking some photos with my iPhone. One of the exhibits is this green neon glass tube with reflections of other exhibits. While very cool looking, right after I shot this image, my iPhone freaked out and locked up. After a complete shut down and five minute wait, the iPhone came back to life. I guess it’s not a good idea to stick an iPhone right up next to one of these tubes — there is a strong electro-magnetic field around them.

Image taken Tuesday evening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles just before sunset. I darkened and added saturation to the image in Lightroom.

A 2010 photo of portion of the Thousand Oaks Library after post-processing with PhotoStudio iPhone application. The pencil and leather filters were used.

My logo photo, taken in 1981 in Naples, Florida, was given an artistic look with two iPhone apps; PaintMee and Pic Grunger.

Photo of hillside covered with mustard next to the Conejo Valley Botanic Garden taken on Sunday, May 2, 2010, on out of date 400 ASA Kodak film with a Argus C-4.

Today’s digital cameras are so east to aim, compose and fire away. Just for the exercise, I borrowed an Argus C-4 camera from the late 1950s, from co-worker Robert Lachman. I loaded it with ten year old 400 ASA Kodak film and went out Sunday shooting photos.

Before shooting an image, I actually had to slow down to figure exposure, focus, and compose to my liking. After exposing the 36 frames, I actually had to wait 24 hours to see the final results. No back-of-camera instant feedback.

For the photo above, exposure was 1/300 a second at f/16. The 50 mm lens was focused at about 20 feet letting depth-of-field sharpen everything from five feet to infinite.

Oh and I almost forgot to mention, I had no light meter. I just used the sunshine rule to figure my exposure. Also known as the Sunny 16 rule: for objects lit by the sun, at f/16 the shutter speed equals ASA/ISO. 1/300 is the highest shutter speed on the Argus C-4, but close enough.

Action shot from Simi Adult League Team 9 on Sunday morning. I posted about 30 photos. Enjoy.

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