Ian Thurston

Mare Island Shoreline & Docks

Ian — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:43:47 +0000

Images from the Mare Island Shoreline Preserve, dry docks and St. Peter’s Chapel

Golden Gate Bridge

Ian — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 07:19:22 +0000

Golden Gate Bridge HDR

Ian — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:01:41 +0000

Golden Gate Bridge shots, first two taken with the Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8 Fisheye and the last two with the Nikon 17-55mm f/2.8.

See my other HDR Images Here

Nikon 10.5mm f/2.8

Ian — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:30:43 +0000

A sample shot of the sky from my backyard – I don’t have a good view for such a wide angle but I like the effect. Couldn’t wait for this weekend to try it out somewhere in the open so this will have to do for now. :)

It’s the first fisheye lens designed for DX format. It covers an entire 180 degrees and makes a great lens for landscape, wedding and architecture shots (at least that’s what I’m going to use it for).

I got mine here.

30 Car Pileup on Hwy 37

Ian — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:39:29 +0000

Heading to work this morning in heavy fog and wound up in some pretty gnarly traffic, turns out eleven wrecks in a row had just occured, and I counted over 25 vehicles with damage. Including two vehicles in the creek beside the highway, and one motorcyclist had been injured. Crazyness.

Photos below – one was even published in the local paper.

Five Alarm Fire @ Mare Island

Ian — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:45:06 +0000

The old [abandoned] storage warehouse on Mare Island caught fire this morning which quickly escalated to a five alarm blaze within an hour.

These images were taken about three hours after the initial report, shortly after fire crews reported that the fire was under control.

“I Haz a Comfy Spot”

Ian — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:51:09 +0000

Every spot, is a cats spot… Normally she likes to go for my daughters room who has a very mild allergy to cats, and crawl up under her sheets or sleep directly on her pillow. She doesn’t do this with anybody else’s bedding.

Vintage Kitty

Ian — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:28:50 +0000

Quality Range Time

Ian — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 23:00:24 +0000

A group of us went to the Center Mass Shooting Range in Vacaville today, breaking in some new guns, shooting some older ones, and coaching a “relatively new” shooter that joined us.

Kitten & Child Portrait

Ian — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:13:03 +0000

On a lazy Saturday I decided to take some test shots with my daughter and our kitten, Widget (featured in many a photo) when I got some more studio lighting .

What I thought would be just a few samples turned out to provide a great portrait of the two of them.