So yesterday I'm shopping at Fry's, and when I walked out around 9:45 AM, I knew it was going to be a bad day. The Santa Anas were howling and smoke was suddenly in the air, coming from the East, somewhere up near the 91 freeway. I drove home hoping they could jump on it quickly before it got out of control. About an hour later, my son walks in and announces that this fire is starting to look pretty bad. I grabbed my camera and went up on the roof to have a look around.

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I usually post my Disneyland updates in the DLR forum, but I'm actually trying to finish a photo thread I started ... um...about a month ago (with any luck I'll post it tomorrow) so I thought I would try something different and post a quick update of some of the changes that took place since last night in Disneyland here in my photo blog. (As a disclaimer, I try not to do updates here as both Master Gracy and Darkbeer are already doing an outstanding job each week. Several things just caught...

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So I was thinking of officially making this into more of a photo blog. Not really focusing entirely on DLR updates, as Andy and Darkbeer are already doing such outstanding work every week, but more of a place for me to post some of my random shots that may or may not eventually end up in a trip report of some kind or another.

BTW, I chose the title of this blog for obvious reasons. Photographers seem to routinely refer to their lenses as "glass" and I am continuing to collect...

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For those of you viewing at home who didn't make it to Disneyland today, let's just say that there is no longer any doubt that someone in the Disney hierarchy is definitely on drugs. Mileypalooza landed at the DLR this morning and if you weren't quite awake at 6:30 AM when the park opened, you certainly were after walking past the screaming pink and purple virtually everywhere you turned.

First of all, we have the Pink Carpet...

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I'm new to the whole blogging thing (this is officially my first blog entry) but I was thinking I might post from time to time about two of the current passions in my life at the moment, which happen to be jazz and photography.

To get things started, I thought I would start by venting my frustration at the Recording Academy for overlooking someone who I feel has been THE voice of jazz since 1995. He has put out numerous albums in that time, ALL of which have been overlooked by the...

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