Venice Beach in the 1980s

 From around 1980 until 2007 I used to roller skate at Venice Beach on Ocean Front Walk and I always carried my camera.  In 2007 I started playing paddle tennis and stopped skating.  But I'm still shooting photos at Venice Beach..  I hope you enjoy the photos from the 1980s and beyond...some from the past week.  This will be my last post for...well, I'm  not sure.  Maybe for the year.

Joey the clown.  He was a wonderful person and a great clown.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.  A good lesson for these days...well, for every day!

Actress Cathy Moriarty with friend and Bull (Richard Moll) - Ocean Front Walk, Venice Beach.

Selfie - Experimented with an 8mm lens with camera timer from a few days ago.  Fixed in Lightroom.

Paddle Tennis spectator...who, like I, has three smoothies a day.  Shot about a week ago.

Bella and Jaime at paddle tennis a few days ago.  

COMMENTS

1.  The mainstream media - DO NOT TRUST ANYTHING THEY SAY!  They lie, give one sided news, and lie by omission.  Between them and the CDC, FDA, NIH, etc., the U.S. spends the most for the worst health of all developed countries (and worse than many not so developed countries) - that SHOULD tell you all you need to know.

2. If you get this far, Happy Halloween.  Unfortunately, the election may be scarier than Halloween...at least for half the country.

More Photographs & More Comments

As I may have mentioned in the past, I've been shooting photos since I was 7 years old.  Back then, after shooting a roll of film, you had to wait several days to see what you shot.  Then 1hr photo places opened.  And I learned how to develop my own black and white photos.  Even though I can look at the back of my camera to see immediately what I shot, I never do.  The photos below were shot with film cameras, scanned, and fixed - because they were old, they had too many dust spots to remove all of those.  Hope you enjoy the photos.  The B&W photos are all from the 1980s.  Not sure when I shot the color photo.  I think half the people on Ocean Front Walk in the 1980s were on skates.  I was, too.

COMMENTS

Almost everything on the news and about C0V!D has been lies, and who knows what the truth is with politics.  I finally stopped watching it almost all of it, except the weather.  My advice is to find people you can trust who you have found that tell the truth.  That has worked well for me!  Follow them, especially concerning medical decisions, diet, and politics.  

With the elections coming up (or already here) the candidates who I believe will do the most good for the most people will be the ones that I vote for.  I may not like the candidate or everything they are for but based on what they've said and done in the past and their policies for the future will determine who I vote for.  

On another note, I was happy the LA Dodgers won their division series after the Yankees clinched theirs - I wanted to see a Dodger/Yankee World Series.  I miss those from when I was growing up.  Forty-three years has been a long time to wait for another one!  But it is here at last.

More Old & New Photos...and Comments, of course.

 Most of my photos have a story attached to them.  Hope you enjoy these and this week more than others, I hope you will at least check out the first comment.

This photo was shot somewhere in California.  I was in the mood to explore a place I had never been so just started driving toward the mountains.  I ended up at an altitude of 9200 feet.  I have no idea where I was, LOL.  The next day I went to some caverns on the way to Sequoia.

I'm still wondering what happened between Chaplin & Hoffa one night, LOL.

The girl above was in a movie being filmed and was nice enough to let me shoot some photos of her.

Another movie filming in Santa Monica in from of the Sea Castle in the 1980's.  

I think this is of the caverns on the way to Sequoia mentioned above.

Probably from the early 1980's - a local Venice Beach girl.

COMMENTS

Just watched this week's The Highwire with an interview with Naomi Wolf about her new book (The Pfizer Papers - you can check it out HERE and watch her interview).  It's about Pfizer's research documents on the C0v!d V, 450,000-pages of their own studies by a team of 3,000 doctors.  Those documents were obtained from the FDA, which means they knew everything Pfizer knew!  And yet, knowing what they know, they are still promoting it for all.

I have a feeling this would never have stayed up on the site referenced.  This all ties together with the mis, dis, mal, or whatever else they want to claim about information when they are the ones guilty of doing what they say others are doing.  Which is why Free Speech is extremely important.  There are those who want to end it so that you can't refute their lies.  Please watch The Highwire, Episode 392.  And for the collaboration between the CDC and ____________, Click this link.   Without free speech. none of this info would be available.  You would never know the truth.  All the lies they told related to c0v!d?  How dangerous would that be?  How dangerous has it been?

About 10 years ago I started researching vaxxes.  I was lucky - there was still truthful information available and easy to find.  That, in addition to my education in nutrition and supplements, and I did exactly the right stuff.  And had no worries about c0v!d.

NOTE:  The Highwire and ICAN are two of the most honest and trusted sources of information.  In the extremely rare instance when they have made a mistake, they have corrected it.  They list all of their sources and where they have gotten their information.  All their facts are verifiable.

Finished Editing over 1,000 Old Photos...and the Usual Comments

 I finished editing over 1000 photos.  I'll be posting them on this blog for quite a while. Some of them I could not do too much with because they had faded and/or color shifted and a lot of other problems. The software I used is meant to work mostly with raw images.  Of course, all of these were scanned from negatives or transparencies that had a lot of dust on them.  I did the best I could.  I could have spent years  on these 1000 photos to get rid of all the dust marks and all the other problems but then they would never get posted.

Some of the improvements were pretty amazing.  Back in the days of film photography it was a lot less expensive to shoot black and white which I developed myself, so there are a lot of those.  This post I'm mixing some very old, and some new photos from Sep 5.  Hope you enjoy.

Mini Burning Man at Venice Beach

From the early 80's when half the people at Venice Beach were on skates.  No inline skates yet.

Enjoying myself at a party - Early 80's.  The bottom three are more of the Mini Burning Man.

COMMENTS

Just now added link for Safer Food!  Good petition to sign.

It's hard to believe another national election is coming up.  I don't usually post anything anywhere about politics.  I'll just say this:  First, I hope everyone will vote.  When they do, I hope they will vote on what gives them and their children the most hope for the future.  And make that choice based on the past actions of the candidates - which means you probably need to do your homework.  Which also means  not relying on the mainstream media.  There are many alternatives that are a lot more truthful.  Never forget how the MSM lied about C0v!d and continue to lie about the injectables.

Even with the devastation from Hurricane Helene, what I hear and see on the MSM is totally different than what I see online from many different sites.  For example, did you know FEMA funds were used for illegal immigrants and now they are out of money (or almost) to help with the devastation?  You won't hear that on the news.  You won't hear or see those injured by vaxxes, drugs, and lots of other things that are happening.  If you listen to only one source of information you'll have no idea of what's really going on.

When I was growing up the news was a lot more trusted and more honest.  I have found Thehighwire.com/watch to be a great source of honest information.

The Continuing Series of Photos and Comments

This started out as a photography blog many years ago.  Then transformed into a health blog as I started learning about vaxxes.  Then along came C0v!d so I shared information about that.  I am not a doctor but I went to the world's best expert doctors and scientists, several who were the most published in their fields of study in peer-reviewed journals.  I've shared that list on this blog.  Plus I've shared what I do to stay healthy (which took many years of trial and error but paid off in spades).  Now this blog is dedicated to health and photography.

So, about photography:  ON1 Photo Raw 2024.5 is my new favorite photo program (app as it's now called).  It works best, as the name implies, on RAW images.  It's not quite as good for old scanned images, but it still makes a huge improvement.  Below are new images for this blog.

An actress (whose name I don't know) from the early 1980s at Venice Beach.  The photos below are also from Venice Beach in the early to mid-1980s (except, of course, for the last photo).

This bottom shot is the Highway 154 Cold Spring Canyon Arch Bridge between Santa Barbara and the Santa Ynez Valley near Paradise.  It's the highest arch bridge in California.

COMMENTS

I received the new AARP Bulletin and it used fear tactics to promote C0v!d vaxxes.  The same vaxxes that increase the likelihood that those who get them will get C0v!d...multiple times.  Not to mention the side effects (heart disease, skin diseases, diabetes, cancer, death, etc.).  A new study out of Japan shows that those who got two or more shots/boosters were 5x more likely to die than those who didn't.  On the other hand, you can take care of your health and probably not get C0v!d or a mild and uneventful case if you do get it.  The choice is yours.  Enjoy a healthy lifestyle and life, or listen to the CDC and big pharma and suffer.

Speaking of a healthy lifestyle, here is someone worth listening to.  She, like I, changed her health through diet and exercise:  Jillian Michaels.  

Cold Photos For Hot Days....and the Usual Comments

I've been preparing to set up a new computer and shooting some photos at the paddle tennis courts. Once that's completed, I can continue fixing my photos and posting more of them here. I'm constantly amazed that an old degraded photo can be returned to its original condition. Slightly out-of-focus photos can be made sharp, and grainy or noisy images can be made perfect. However, to fix one image currently can take 15 minutes to an hour on this computer so I've been putting it off until I get my new PC.  Meanwhile, during this heatwave, here are some old icy photos as well as some artsy new paddle tennis shots.

My new PC has not arrived on time, so did the best with these old snowy photos.

She was a neighbor, probably a freezing neighbor, haha.  But would be nice to have a spot like that today.  Some of the LA Valleys were 117 - 119 degrees.  It was probably around 32 in this photo.

This was an unusual snowfall in the hills above Santa Barbara from the mid-1970s.

As three artists might have painted Mackenzie playing paddle tennis at Venice Beach - late August, 2024.  The top artist would have been Benson, the bottom one, Van Gogh, and the middle one, Leroy Neiman.

COMMENTS

November is getting close.  I hope you vote for which candidate offers the best policies for this country...assuming you can figure that out.

Photos (New Action Shots of Mackenzie & Bella) Plus My Usual Comments

 The photos for this post of two competitive paddle tennis players are recent photos for a change.  Hope you enjoy checking these out as much as I enjoyed shooting them.  I've been checking all my photos (29,000 of them!) and found around 2,000 or so that were duplicates or very similar.  I had to compare each set of dupes to see if one photo was better so was unable to use auto on duplicate finder software.  New software is amazing for fixing photos but it takes time and I wanted to fix the same images only once, hence the search and destroy for the dupes.

In the photos below, Mackenzie is in red and Bella is in black and white.  Reminds me of that old joke:  What's black and white and red all over?

COMMENTS

As many of you may know, I've discussed health in many past posts.  If you check the statistics, you'll find the U.S. is way down the list of all countries for longevity.  It is at or near the top of the list for infant mortality, chronic health conditions, and in general, we have the worst health of any developed country.  Not to mention autism rates going from 1 in 10,000 about 40 years ago to 1 in 32 (or higher) now.  So it was nice to hear RFK, Jr's slogan, Make America Healthy Again.  That is why I recommend The Highwire each week.  Here is what I do to stay Healthy.  I have now added ginger and Bioperine (black pepper extract) to that superfood mix.  

As always, I hope you enjoy this post and the photos. 

And may you all go to health.