Jillangill’s Take on Long Beach and Nature
I can’t believe Summer’s already over! I mostly sat around for the second half of it, and it STILL seems like it flew by. I’m trying to make the most of all my opportunities to shoot, so without further ado here are some of my favorite shots from last week’s Long Beach/Rancho Palos Verdes expedition. We shot a CSULB’s Japanese Garden, and then at Rancho Palos Verdes’ Wayfarers Chapel. Both were lovely and fun, and of course, picturesque!
From the Japanese Garden:
The View from Wayfarers Chapel:
Long Beach Port Pipes:
You can see the whole set here
Today’s contest is through an organization called The Nature Conservancy, with a prize being exposure through inclusion in their 2011 calendar. The parameters for the contest were images of wildlife and habitats. I realized I don’t do too much shooting in those categories directly, but they’re definitely some of my interests. Here are the two I chose to enter:
I entered this into another contest earlier this month, but I think it’s also good for this one. 
I had to re-do the wing construction because in my ongoing efforts to purge anything unnecessary from my computer so it will actually run (booooo), I somehow permanently deleted the doctored image.
This one, you probably know, has always been one of my favorites. Incidentally, this one and the image above were taken during the same trip up north to Santa Maria.