Malibu整个小城都是沿着海岸线的山坡上。真正的依山傍水。原市长圈地的功劳不可磨灭。现在变成好莱坞明星区。周末经常有法拉利车队游街。进出Malibu就一条路。（除非走后山）所以法拉利也是和我们一样塞在路上。这让同被塞的路人们，得到了阿Q般的满足感。

在Malibu的山上，居然有很多葡萄酒园。近在咫尺的，我也是才发现。 这里显然是特意为游客做了很多装饰的。 这小秋千。我刚开始还没看懂是要做成个什么形状。等到有小朋友骑上去，才看明白马头马尾。

和秋千一样，后园摇摇椅是我们的梦想。都是因为小时候公园里的，没坐够。

出山路上看到的孤独的救生员小屋。这个地方离开游客区太远了。又没沙子。很少人来戏水的。被分配到这里的救生员一定很闷。所以在小屋上面鬼画符。

美国也有油条。

取景就是要这样啊。

南加州一年只有冬天几个月下雨。差不多从三月份起就没有雨了。天气预报天天都是小太阳。
可是南加州处处绿草茵茵的。都是靠人工灌溉。这水还是千里迢迢从北加调来的。
加州的一个奇观就是从北往南的输水道。要看更奇的，要去北加，可以看到被抽开水的湖底。好大好广阔的一个干枯大坑。难以想象曾经盛满过碧蓝的水。
所以，草地在南加都是假象。真正南加是沙漠，真正南加的植物除了仙人掌，就是下面这些多肉植物。其实他们肉嘟嘟的还是很可爱的。他们不光很贴心的长出花的形状，还可以长大到树一样高，灌木丛一样阔。真是一举多得。

仙人掌也有很多颜色。

圣地亚哥海岸多了很多雕塑。
我们正拍着，旁边已经有很多人等不及挑战这个姿势了。

金色沙滩

可爱的美女游伴们。。。。

更多图片在思贝博客。。。

http://puppyloveyuan.spaces.live.com

Exhibited at Annenberg Space for Photography are photos taken around world on the subject of fresh water by different photographers.

All my favorite photos are taken by the same photographer, John Stanmeyer.

“The Maya believed natural wells, such as the Xkeken cenote in Mexico’s Yucatán, led to the underworld.”

This photo is simply mesmerizing especially when displayed on a large scale. It felt like I was leaning over the edge of our world into the dark, mystery underworld and was only hanging on by a single thread, a few rays of sunshine.

“Tending body and soul, Taizo Noda, 72, bathes in the mineral-rich waters of an onsen, or hot spring, near Osaka, Japan. Hours spent soaking, says Noda, are “the secret of long life.”"

Looking at this picture, I am doozing off myself….

Source: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

Pasadena 这个鬼地方，这个周末热到100度。我走走都感觉要被晒化了。 参加chalk festival 的粉笔画家们，连续两天，顶着毒日头趴在地上画画。
有的人就是自己这么闷头画两天。有的是全家老少一起出动。
画出来的画当然很美。我更被他们这种浑不吝的姿态吸引。
大家都是随地坐着跪着，有时候还要手脚并用在画上爬来爬去，特别是最后touch up的时候，因为怕碰到画，扭成各种姿势。因为是用粉笔画在粗糙的水泥地上面，所以要拼命的抹匀！抹成一个完整色块。所以五个手指伸出来，都是黑的。不用说，胳膊腿也都这么没遮没拦的露在大太阳底下。完全进入了浑然忘我的境界。

The USC website didn’t include details of the event, such as whether it was a talk on techniques in photograph or his personal experiences. That was why it surprised me when the auditorium was filled with people when I arrived. I got in just early enough to sit at the first row under the big screen. The room soon became so packed that some people had to sit in the pathways while some were standing outside of the door.

Mr. Burtynsky was extremely humble despite his overwhelming popularity at USC. He started a slide show quickly without spending too much time on his personal biography, the usual “how I become great” speech. I appreciated that after working all day, driving an hour to get here, and spending a little over 10 minutes devouring a Chicken Caesar burrito for dinner.

My most memorable photos were the ones showing vast holes in the ground, the mine fields. They are so vast and deep that it reminded me of the picture of people building the Tower of Babel. Only this one is direct towards the center of the earth. For one of them, Mr. Burtynsky said it was 500 miles to the bottom using the tracks. My favorite part of the talk was when Mr. Burtynsky said that humans are usually in awe of nature. We see ourselves as dwarfs in the face of nature. Mine fields inversed the idea. Nature is not the fear. It is man’s needs that we are in awe of.

Humans opened up these holes for resources. They are permanently visible on the face of the earth. It doesn’t end here. The last part of the slide show showed photos of waste. The beautiful photo of a red river which is the poster picture of tonight’s event is in fact a river filled with waste with little traces of iron that are not worth extracting. ( So no, it is not a picture of a sunset over a river.)

This is not something we sweat off by blaming it on greedy corporations. We all benefit from and partake in this activity. I went home and, for the first time, seriously thought about what they called a more sustaneble life style.

Mr. Burtynsky also showed pictures of a developing China, including photos from Three Gorgeous Dam, to skylined Shanghai, industrialized factories as well as rural countrysides. These photos have become almost a cliché to me because I am Chinese. However what seems old and recycled to me may still be mind-blowing to American audiences. But I think I might scream if I see just one more photo of “The One Child Policy” in these exhibitions. And yes, I did see one in Mr. Burtynsky’s slide show. China remains a fascinating place to foreign photographers not just because it is an easy target for many stereotypes including sweat shops, human rights, environmental issues, etc. I overlooked an important budget issue. A photographer can come to this one country and cover all stages of the development of capitalism as I saw in this slide show.

The talk wasn’t all serious and all about environmental issues. There was an aesthetic side of it as well. Mr. Burtynsky said he tries to make photos that make people stop and wonder. He uses scale, perspective, and light to trigger “wonder”. I thought it was a great point for even amateur photographers.