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Posted by John |
Aug 8th, 2010
Two weekends ago Sarah came up with the great idea to get out of town and go wine tasting up north in the central coast. We didn’t have much of a plan or clue of what we were going to find up there and that was half the fun. I asked my...
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Posted by John |
Jul 19th, 2010
Here are my favorite shots from my family’s 2nd Annual Westley Family Picnic. I tried to approach the shots with a journalistic/candid approach and not get too many posed shots. I was shooting with my on-camera flash the whole time to fill...
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Posted by John |
Jul 7th, 2010
The photos in my last post Jump! were taken at the top of our El Moro hike and these couple of photos were taken on the way up to the summit. The first three photos taken of the flowers and what I think is a gourd were all overexposed and then...
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Posted by John |
Jun 22nd, 2010
How fun are impromptu photo shoots? On a hike through El Moro Canyon we got to the top and after taking a couple of random shots Matt had the great idea to use the flash to capture us mid jump over the sunset and the shots turned out pretty...
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Posted by John |
Jun 11th, 2010
I haven’t put a new post on this website in six weeks so to all of my loyal followers, all three of you, I’m sorry for the lack of new content Luckily, I had the chance to go to the circus this last weekend and they let me shoot with...
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Posted by John |
Apr 22nd, 2010
This Monday I was very fortunate to get an invite to a super secret private show at La Cave put on by Steve Belmonte of PunkRockers.com for a few of his friends and coworkers. We were treated to amazing music by Xanimo and Dead Sara. This was...
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Posted by John |
Apr 14th, 2010
I really don’t quite remember when I was introduced to HDR photography, definitely within the last year or so, but I do remember how cool I thought it was. To be able to capture an image that is closer to what the eye really sees seemed very...
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Posted by John |
Apr 9th, 2010
This shot was taken in Mission Bay. It was a really foggy day and I liked all the hues of blue. Looking at the shot I focused on the first and closest sailboat and shot with a wide open aperture to get the best depth of field. In...
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Posted by John |
Apr 3rd, 2010
Every Friday the website www.photofriday.com puts out a new prompt for pro and amateur photographers to submit a photo that best encompasses that given weeks challenge word. This week it was “blurred” and even though I have a ton of...
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Posted by John |
Mar 29th, 2010
I’m thinking of changing my website to “John R Westley: The Opportunistic Photographer” and this shot would be the perfect example of why. While in New York for work I was blown away at the view from my room and knew that I had...
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Posted by John |
Mar 19th, 2010
In a couple weeks I’m moving back to Huntington Beach and Orange County. It’s already making me nostalgic for San Diego and I haven’t even left yet.
The picture below I’ve had for a long time and I stumbled upon it tonight...
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Posted by John |
Mar 17th, 2010
A couple weeks back my friend Stacy from stacy marie :: photography and I went downtown to try an idea we found in the Photojojo book where you offer people lollipops to take their picture. We decided to mix it up and bring some props for...
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Posted by John |
Mar 16th, 2010
For six weeks I lived with a host family in Alajuela, Costa Rica and travelled everyweekend to different beaches to surf – good...
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Posted by John |
Mar 12th, 2010
“Taco Shop Nights” is my entry for the PhotoFriday.com‘s NIGHTLIFE contest this week.
I got the idea from a Photojojo article. This photo is a panographie (collection of multiple photos laid on top of each other to make a larger...
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Posted by John |
Mar 8th, 2010
With my buddy Matt we travelled from Mexico City to Oaxaca to Playa Zicatela by bus to spend four weeks on the beach surfing Puerto Esconido. On the way back we were able to visit the pyrimads of Tenochtitlan and the amazing museums of Mexico...
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Posted by John |
Mar 8th, 2010
For ten days in July 2003 I was in Peru to explore Cuzco and hike the Inca Trail to Maccu...
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Posted by John |
Mar 3rd, 2010
After two hours walking around Seattle I can tell you this – it’s very cool. I was pretty lucky to not have it rain on me my first time there. The locals said it’s been a really dry winter because of El Nino. Darn kids. Right...
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Posted by John |
Feb 26th, 2010
Went up to South Lake to visit friends and snowboard last weekend and though it wasn’t a photo trip I was able to get a couple quick shots.
These two below are from Nevada beach and I really just liked the idea of having snow on sand since...
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Posted by John |
Feb 18th, 2010
Back in December I took some photos of my buddies Tim and Thomas bodysurfing a pretty heavy wave somewhere in SoCal. It’s a secret spot … but only if you don’t know where it is.
The wave is much heavier and steep than the photos...
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Posted by John |
Feb 10th, 2010
Sarah and I went on a whale watching tour out of San Diego on the Hornblower and we saw a ton of whales. The day was a bit hazy and my lens didn’t quite have enough reach to get really tight pictures.
The picture that I am most happy with is...
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Posted by John |
Feb 2nd, 2010
Last September my buddies Matt, Kyle, and I went to New Jersey and New York for two weeks. Our plan was to go to Long Beach Island on the Jersey Shore and wait for hurricane surf. While on the shore it rained for 5 of the 6 days we were there....
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Posted by John |
Jan 30th, 2010
I took this picture in my hotel room at the Riviera Hotel in Palm Springs. We were there for our Leadership Forum from January 26th-27th. My work pictures are here.
I really liked the layout of the place – it was super hip. My room was...
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Posted by John |
Jan 26th, 2010
After a week of rain in Southern California the sun finally came out and I made some stops to Mt. Soledad and La Jolla Cove to take some photos of the animals and...
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Posted by John |
Jan 22nd, 2010
This is the last picture I have on my Twitter background right now @johnrwestley
I took this picture while out with the San Diego Photography Group Meetup trip to Joshua Tree. We were blown away when we were driving from one spot to another in...
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Posted by John |
Jan 22nd, 2010
Here’s the 3rd of the 4 pictures on my Twitter background @johnrwestley
I dare you to find a better picture of the Vegas sign. Not trying to be cocky but I googled the hell out of it and I believe this one blows them all away. First off I...
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Posted by John |
Jan 22nd, 2010
Here’s the 2nd of the 4 currently on my Twitter background @johnrwestley
This was taken at my friend’s Craig, Danielle, Nick A, Nick M, and Nori’s Halloween Haunt 2009 Party. I really hadn’t taken pictures of partys or...
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Posted by John |
Jan 22nd, 2010
So I try to send people here via my Twittter page @johnrwestley. But what I just noticed is that because I am so slow to setup my galleries you can’t even see large versions of the pictures I have on my twitter page. So here they are as four...
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Posted by John |
Jan 18th, 2010
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Posted by John |
Jan 8th, 2010
Went out to shoot the sunset a couple of days ago with the intention of not taking any cliche pics and ended up with a backlit sufer under the pier with a reflection of the pilings in the wet sand. . . great, mission accomplished. Not.
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Posted by John |
Jan 4th, 2010
Sometimes you don’t have your camera with you, sometimes all you have is a camera phone. These days camera phones can produce some really good pictures with the right conditions – heck, my blackberry camera phone has more megapixels...
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Posted by John |
Dec 30th, 2009
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This is a film photograph that I took a long time ago that I still really really like. It’s a self portrait that was done by taking multiple exposures while moving the surfboard around. My dad actually pushed the...
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