Mustang 5.0 Engine Transplant

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Car: My neighbor's 1966 Ford Mustang
Camera: Canon 7D with EFS 17-55mm F2.8

Signs and Bus Benches in Seal Beach

 

Seal Beach is a wonderful community.

A city with "…its quaint small-town atmosphere."

The visual impact of City signs often distracts from "quaintness."

 

And new bus benches with advertisements are on their way. Let's hope the City's "limited authority" over this advertising protects (what's left of) our small-town atmosphere. Review of both content and layout (ratio of image size to advertising space and the size and color of typeface) seems reasonable.

Our City's Green Belt--still (mostly) signage free.

Notes.
Bus bench franchise information based on C. Kelly's story appearing in the 26-January issue of the Seal Beach Sun.

First and last photos captured with an iPhone 4-what an amazing camera!
Historian Art Hansen (Emeritus Professor of History at CSUF) observation via email (1/29/12): Your resourceful visual anthropological exploration of the cultural milieu of Seal Beach clearly articulates an alternative meaning for the term "benchmark." 

Gung Hay Fat Choy

Our House Dragons have been waiting 12 years...

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Gung Hay Fat Choy (Cantonese)

Xin Nian Kuai Le (Mandarin)

Photos in ABA's Birding

The January issue of Birding includes some of my photos--I'm jazzed to be in print.

Note.

Birding is a publication of the American Birding Association.
Photos originally appeared in this Half Moon Bay Birding photo essay.
My last publication?

First Bloom

Early January bloom from my Mom's memorial rose.

My Mom

My Maternal Grandmother

Grandmother and Mother 

Mother and Me

Pau Pau and Grandson

Notes. 

The rose bud bloomed on my Mom's birthday.

Pau Pau is our family's Chinese designation for grandmother.

Photo Details.

First Bloom: Canon 7D, 1/250, f/5.6,100 mm, ISO 100.

Mother and Me photo by Uncle Bue Kee; Kodak Anastigmat, f/6.3, 100 mm.

Pau Pau and Grandson: SX-70 Polaroid.