Friday at the Aquarium of the Pacific

Saturday (Oct 16) was a workday for me, so I had Friday off. Friday was the last day that our free Chapman tickets to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach were good, so after Don's doctor visit (he checks out in top shape after his ablation surgery two weeks before), off we went to the Aquarium. Many of the tanks are open at the top to the outside, so get natural sunlight. This being an overcast day though, lighting was a bit dim and my camera settings were set for the dimmest of conditions; with a "Hi1" ISO (equivelent to 3200) which I hoped would allow me some depth of field and reasonable shutter speeds--hee-hee, as it turns out though, silly me didn't notice that I had previously set the camera to a -2.3EV adjustment. Grrrrr.
So images are a bit dark, but here are a few, and later I'll post a few of Don's videos:

2010-10-18 Horses

Last weekend Don and I saw the movie "Secretariat", about a horse of the same name who was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, who in 1973 became the first U.S. Triple Crown champion in twenty-five years. The cinematography in the movie was so great that I decided it had been way too long since I'd photographed a horse. (Probably the last time was when I photographed a fund raising horse show as a part time photographer for Western Medical Center in the early 1990's)
So on my lunch a couple of days last week I went to horse stables.
This first place was listed as Hunters Pointe and is in Anaheim off of Phoenix Club Drive:





OK, it's not a horse but isn't he a cute kitty?

And this second place is at Irvine Regional Park. It's listed as Peacock Hill Equestrian Center:

I think I'll see if I can learn Photoshop well enough to eliminate those pesky flies.