Weekend

G, I am your brother

S needed a nebulizer delivered medication, he's fine now.  Was happy to watch cartoons while being medicated.  And spent a morning at the park.

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Fire! Fire!

Dubs?  These old school wood wheels are like Forties!

We went to the Fire Museum in Hollywood recently.  The boys are into their trucks and like heavy equipment so this was right up their alley. 

Photo note: After shooting flash off camera in manual mode for a while, I went back to using on camera flash in TTL mode, I don't like it.  I think what I don't like about TTL is that it tries to hard to balance lighting the subject and the background but does a terrible job.  The pre flashing in TTL mode cuts the final output of the main burst because it must also account for small flashes that emitted to determine exposure, the background gets the short end of the stick with multiple small flashes.  

Outputted from Lightroom 4, I'm trying to like it but still just don't, it seems like a lot of extra work with very little in return for the serious stuff and for this family stuff, it saves some time but not by much and PS allows more precise control with a wider range of tools.  Stuck in my ways.

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Passover 2012

Hosted Passover again this year.  Nice to see the family together especially the newest member H.B. and the older, less mobile folks.

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Science Museum

Add Space Shuttle Here

Why the Galaxy play in Carson?

Ode to Hendrix

We went down to the Los Angeles Science Museum, deep in the hood, and the soon to be home of the Space Shuttle.  We originally were going to see the dino bones at the Natural History Museum but the spring break line was long.  So we ended up at LASM and that worked out fine considering the proximity to that other school.  The SR71 parked outside was amazing.

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Friends at the Zoo

Boys and tech toys.

Everyone had a snappy time!

Spring break we meet some friends over at the LA Zoo's new reptile house.  All 4 boys had a great time.

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Cool Jets

New pair of shades for G and just some bright eyes for the S.

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