San Diego Zoo
Last year I went to the San Diego Zoo on a monthly basis because of all the guests Laura and I had during our first year in San Diego. Ever since the new year began, we have yet to have a visitor so our zoo trips have been pretty scarce. We decided to break this drought on Sunday and Laura, being the amazing girlfriend she is, surprised me with a backstage pass to the zoo for my birthday! The backstage pass was a two hour tour that had us up close and personal with rhinos, cheetahs, kangaroos, tropical birds, wolves, flamingos, and even the very rare... donkey! It was an amazing experience and recommend this tour to everyone.
Here's a couple photos I took during our time with the rhinos and flamingos
another sunset...
I sometimes think that I'm boring everyone that comes to my site because all I ever put on here are sunset photos at the beaches around my house. It's never boring to me when I'm there, but once I get back to my apartment and start uploading the photos they are all a blur from one night to the other. San Diego is a beautiful place though and who can really blame me for wanting to spend every oppurtunity I get at La Jolla Cove, Coronado, and Sunset Cliffs...
My goal for the next two months is to expand my photo mind and comfort zone here in San Diego. Take more portraits or even drive inland a little bit and take landscapes in an area that's not a ten minute drive for me to get to.
The following photo was taken up at Children's Pool. I wanted to include the seals (there's usually 100-200 seals laying at this beach) in my sunset photo. Unfortunately, when me and Laura got there people had set up some tents on the beach area for scuba diving and basically scared all the seals away They did it to make a "statement" that Children's Pool should be turned back into a beach for people and not for seals... I'm getting frustrated just thinking about the Children's Pool controversy.
Enjoy!
Baseball
I love it... Baseball that is. It's the greatest game ever created. From the home runs, to the perfect game, to my favorite thing... the double steal, there's nothing more entertaining to me than baseball. I could watch/listen to baseball everyday, and during the season I do. The month of March for me is dedicated to watching as many baseball movies as possible. As I write this I'm watching Ken Burns documentary about baseball called 'Ken Burns: Baseball." If you are a baseball stat nut, like myself, twitter is your best friend during the season because all the beat-writes and stat-geeks fill your stream with stats, that a lot of the time you have no idea why are even kept in the first place.
Living in San Diego right now, it's tough for me to watch Phillies games but fortunately for technology there's these neat little programs called apps. MLB At-Bat is by far my favorite app on my phone and I am able to listen to a majority of the 162 Phillies games played in a season bescause of it. Yes, I could get MLB.tv but the Phils games are usually in the 8th inning by the time I get home, so spending the $120 on a program I would rarely get a chance to use just doesn't make much sense.
Walk around Philadelphia and ask anyone what they were doing on October 29th, 2008 and they will probably tell you their story about how they witnessed the Phillies win the World Series. I was downtown, just a few blocks from broad street with a group of friends, just waiting for Brad Lidge to record the third out so we could all run out the door and and join in the celebration with thousands of other fans on Broad.
I posted these photos around the same time last year, but with baseball season just beginning, I can't help but post them again since they are a reminder of one of the greatest experiences of my life. I also wish I could take credit for the first photo but I really can't do that, even though it was on my camera the next morning. My good friend Jon took this photo with my camera while I was down on the street, on top of a phone booth, too busy banging on a street sign, with my camera bag filled with empty beer cans.
