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Photos from my London trip, California trip and a local hiking trip. Finally caught up with all my photos so future Photos of the Week might be a little sparse. The last photo was taken with the new Canon 50D.

Eye of the Beholder - 1/100 sec @ f/8.0 w/ 18mm (01/17/09)

The London Eye, taken on our walk around the Thames.

Sticks and Leaves – 1.3 sec @ f/32 w/ 100mm (03/08/09)

Taken at Pandapas Pond.

Nevermore – 1/500 sec @ f/5.6 w/ 183mm (03/24/09)

Top of a Spanish Mission in Napa, California

Photos from our visit to Monaco and one photo from the skiing we did.

Phantom of Monte Carlo – 1/160 sec @ F/5.6

Sunny Side Down - 1/800 sec @ F/7.1

Monte Carlo Bay - 1/2 sec @ F/5.0

Like the auto industry, much of the skills, equipment and techniques for scuba diving come from the extreme side of the sport. Honda and others test out their technology and learn new things about auto tech from Stock, Indy and Formula 1 racing, then apply that to the consumer level.

On the scuba side, there is wreck and cave diving where divers penetrate deeply into areas where swimming to the surface is not an option if things were to go wrong. These divers have developed a few skills and techniques that all open-water divers would benefit greatly from, not to mention in our everyday activities and lives.

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This series comes from our ski trip to Nice, France to visit our friend Tea. She drove us up to the mountains and was nice enough to stop and let me out to take the following pictures. Enjoy!

Road of Fire – 30 sec @ f/11 – 18mm

Le Chateau – 30 sec @ f/7.1 – 18mm

Mountain Silhouette – 30 sec @ f/8 – 18mm

French Glass – 1.6 sec @ f/10 – 25mm

More photos from our ski trip in Austria.

Straight Down

Destination: Above the Clouds

Valley Sunset

Mountain Skiing