I saw a photo at the store the other day, a tree silhouetted against the sky. I live just over the hill from Joseph D. Grant Ranch, close to San Jose where similar trees stand perched on top of small hills. I’ve tried taking photos of them in the past with little success. Today, we went for a short hike with the family and had my Canon PowerShot G9. The photo above was one of the more successful attempts. I experimented with a sepia treatment, but the contrast between the tree and the blue sky was so much more striking and less cliche than the silhouette.

The Animal Planet Expo was in San Jose so I decided to bring my son there. Mostly, I was interested in getting an autograph from Jeff Corwin but got nixed from the line… like the person in front of me got to get a Corwin autograph… oh well, them’s the breaks. So we both decided to wander around and came across the Planet Green exhibit. Mostly county fair stuff… but we got a cool/cheesey photo of a bunch of people on a couch with us badly Photoshop-ed in… can you find us? We’re really hard to miss…