Jacob Kearns' Blog

Hmm

2009-02-28T19:50:00.000-08:00

Click to make bigger, I don't know where its from, but its funny.

Pitfall, Goob, Artillary, X-Wing Disk

2009-01-17T20:09:00.000-08:00

My dad gave me this computer game disk for Christmas. This was a copy I made from a friend a long time ago. I think he's been playing Goob for the last 15 years. I wonder if he beat it.

A Ground Rounder with cheese

2008-12-21T08:26:00.000-08:00

Also called a Cheeseburger.

Zach Rounds

2008-08-29T22:13:00.000-07:00

I am on to you, you have forced me to respond and post here for the first time in 4 months. Every reasonable person has a Google reader feed with their name as a search set up. And yes, it was a delightful 104F today.

Coyote Update

2008-04-05T19:26:00.000-07:00

The cows and coyotes live in harmony in El Sobrante, I previously took a Pulitzer caliber picture of a coyote here, then about a month ago I took an even better picture of probably the same two:

and then today I got an even BETTER picture (I know, how is that possible) of a coyote:

Amazing that with a $500 lens you can get closer, but still have fundamental problems with the picture. Even better though I find out that you can feed these coyotes and they may just come right up to you. My plan for tomorrow is set:

Find cow #8026 and take its picture.
Switch to macro lens, feed coyotes, take pictures, cuddle them.

Cow update

2008-04-05T19:10:00.000-07:00

Last week I posted about a cow, cow #8024, today I found his brother, cow #8025:

The new purpose of this blog will be to post pictures of the El Sobrante hill cows in order, so I will post next when I find cow #8026 and take a picture of it.

Rave reviews for my stock photography

2008-03-30T10:18:00.000-07:00

That came from Lucky Oliver. You can't buy praise like that.

Manly post

2008-03-23T20:14:00.000-07:00

I thought I better post something manly to make up for the 48 poodle pictures and the last makeup post. This is a picture of a cow taken right after he charged me and I was forced to wrestle him to the ground and put the ear tag on with my teeth at 5 am while carrying my rifle.

Not a dog picture.

2008-03-23T19:56:00.000-07:00

I got accepted at Shutterstock and now I spend my time taking pictures of makeup and sticks I find in the back yard.

My latest images for sale at
Shutterstock:

My most popular images for sale at
Shutterstock:

PS Notice how well I modified the script to fit this website? I'm pretty much a webgenius.

Do not mess with the poodle now

2008-03-01T23:28:00.001-08:00

He's PISSED.

Beat up dog

2008-02-24T16:24:00.001-08:00

The poodle got beat up by two dogs at the dog park and needed a bunch of stitches. The best part about dogs getting stitches is they're not supposed to lick them, and they constantly try to, good times. I think the cone is even worse than constantly watching him because then he just walks around bumping into things looking pathetic. Oh yeah, and no baths even though he is covered in mud.

Lighthouses

2008-02-17T20:53:00.000-08:00

I sold this very tiny lighthouse picture on Fotolia, undercutting those that do actual good work by so much someone was practically forced to buy. I believe this makes me a professional photographer. Jake K - Fotolia.com

Obamamania

2008-02-12T21:46:00.001-08:00

I would like to go on record now as seeing Obama in Oakland back in March '07, before he was considered one of the cool kids. I lied, cheated, and stole my way to the front of the crowd and still had to put up with people and their stupid heads in the way. Instead of feeling bad about cutting, I've almost convinced myself that I "outsmarted" the 5,000 people waiting in line. I don't think McCain has come to Oakland for some reason.

My best whale picture

2008-01-27T11:06:00.001-08:00

This is my best whale picture from Kauai, you think it would be easy to take pictures of whales- they're big and they don't move fast right? But its not. Don't even bother trying if you don't have a DSLR and then you have to be pretty lucky. Plus there is all these inane rules about not being able to plow your boat right up to a whale for good pictures. Whale watching in Maui is better and cheaper than whale watching in Kauai. Either way, you have to go in the winter though.

Back from Hawaii

2008-01-12T16:51:00.000-08:00

I am back from Kauai and I have a lot of pictures I want to share. Below is one of the outlets in our living room. Tanya refuses to do electrical work, so I'm not sure its ever going to get cleaned up.

Killer Tiger?

2007-12-25T19:04:00.001-08:00

Tiger kills San Francisco Zoo patron, injures two others, seriously? I thought that stuff only happened in bad movies. When I went to the San Francisco zoo, the tigers were safely behind the fence, and I took this picture. UPDATE: This in not the killer tiger, the killer tiger was a chick tiger.

Missed my turkey picture chance

2007-11-23T08:49:00.001-08:00

I forgot to post my horrible turkey picture on the one day it would have made sense to. I think the picture is actually pretty good if you consider the fact that I took it while driving and Tanya yelling "You can't take pictures while driving the car!" or some other such nonsense at me. There was a speed bump so I was going pretty slow anyway.

What I had for lunch today

2007-11-18T21:20:00.001-08:00

Tanya wanted a special trip downtown to go to Burlington Coat Factory, apparently it sounds more upscale than it is, because that place was like Kmart. At least the lunch was good, I had this pizza like thing with cheese, spinach and broccoli and we split a gelato.

Rocktober!

2007-10-22T22:14:00.001-07:00

That is me on the left with a bunch of my dad's friends at the very first Colorado Rockies home game. Apparently I didn't know they were taking a picture or that is the oddest pose ever.

Those are coyotes

2007-09-15T21:48:00.000-07:00

Tanya said the picture makes them look like rats, whatever, its like we're living in frontier land here, I'm going to start carrying a rifle around.

Yours for cheap

2007-09-10T21:56:00.001-07:00

Moody Monday: Ugly

Jumping/running/bounding/skipping poodle

2007-09-03T11:10:00.001-07:00

Unique's Photo Challenge Entry: Frozen Motion

I'm thinking of renaming this blog poodle blog.

I took this picture for work

2007-08-23T21:07:00.001-07:00

It is a return line clamp- it says so. Stunning macro huh?

New view

2007-08-05T09:15:00.001-07:00

We moved from Richmond to El Sobrante, or El Sob as those in the know call it. This is the view from the back porch, you would almost never know we were in the middle of 7 million people.

Me

2007-08-05T08:51:00.001-07:00

I (or the Simpson's website) made two simpzinations of myself. The one on the left I created from scratch, the one on the right, they made from an uploaded picture. I added the dog.

It took the awesomeness of Blogger to ensure that you can not fit two pictures in a post any way except right on top of each other.

Tanya at the ROM

2007-08-04T11:10:00.000-07:00

What kind of museum allows pictures? Canadian ones apparently. I confess, I am just posting this to fill out my Picasa map.

Photos mapped!

2007-08-03T23:33:00.000-07:00

I have spent the last hour or so mapping out some of my picture locations on the Picasa Web Album. Why? I'm not really sure. It sounded cool when I saw it as a new Picasa feature, but now I can't figure out why.

* FEATURED SITE OF THE YEAR *

2007-07-20T19:44:00.001-07:00

I know its only July, but my pick for Featured Site of the Year is jkirlin's my expression site. The brilliance of J Kirlin really shines through in his My expression site. I've linked it since he first announced it and he continuously improves it. You absolutely MUST check it out right now and witness the sheer genius of J Kirlin's imagery. Make sure you go to the My expression site, his other site are, how to put it nicely... well they're just not as good as his My expression site. Really, J Kirlin's my expression site deserves to be the featured site of the year. The quality is unsurpassed, check it out, you won't be disappointed in J Kirlin!

PS <3 J Kirlin

Poodle vs. oyster

2007-07-20T19:34:00.001-07:00

No posts lately, we've been out and about some this summer and are moving! I will make it up to you later with pictures of Tanya in her nursing scrubs though.

lighthouse

2007-06-27T21:08:00.001-07:00

Photo Theme Thursday: Weather

You would wet your pants too

2007-06-18T20:36:00.000-07:00

Moody Monday: Active

Just lean out a little further dearest

2007-06-16T09:43:00.001-07:00

Shutterday Entry: Danger

We all watched the girl in the blue

2007-06-13T21:56:00.001-07:00

Thursday Challenge entry: People

Old red bridge

2007-06-08T22:11:00.001-07:00

Shutterday Entry: Famous

Sailboating on the San Francisco Bay.

2007-05-30T18:49:00.001-07:00

Photo Theme Thursday: Peaceful

Coast Redwoods California.

2007-05-17T22:19:00.001-07:00

PhotoFriday: Large.

Not average

2007-05-11T21:26:00.000-07:00

The San Francisco silver man, he's famous and all, somebody even did a lame commercial copying his style, but they got an actor instead. I think the cane makes the costume. Shutterday: Strangers

OPP

2007-05-10T20:00:00.000-07:00

Pictures of North Korea, looks like a nice place to visit...

QM2

2007-05-07T18:38:00.000-07:00

No one stands around watching me when I march into San Francisco. Except for the cops.

Moody Monday: Rich

Pictures of people "working" at Google

2007-05-01T20:18:00.000-07:00

Pictures of people working at Google here. Just like my work, without the meals, pool, gizmos, tech support, scooter, barbers, volleyball courts, pool tables, artwork, racecars, massages, and dogs. We don't even have a cleaning service, we do however, have at least a half dozen IV poles with equipment on them, take that Google.

Scenic Richmond, CA

2007-04-29T18:18:00.000-07:00

This is what passes for a scenic trail in Richmond, CA. A loop trail around the active landfill. Its actually better than advertised, on one side you have the landfill, but on the other side you have a refinery. They have benches and everything so you can watch the flare. Nice huh?

Santa Cruz boardwalk.

2007-04-26T20:21:00.000-07:00

I promise there is some fun in there somewhere.

Good dog

2007-04-22T19:19:00.000-07:00

Look a pile of poo, I think I will roll in it. Moody Monday: dirty.

And I was running

2007-04-22T16:53:00.000-07:00

If the poodle was a person, he'd be Phoebe from friends. Unique's Photo Challenge: Action

Its working

2007-04-19T18:58:00.000-07:00

These are elephant seals, look at them run!

I broke it

2007-04-18T20:06:00.000-07:00

I think I broke my blog, only one picture is showing. Now I will have to rely on my writing to keep you entertained.

My weekend fun

2007-04-15T19:14:00.000-07:00

I don't even think I cheated.

More OPP

2007-04-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

Bridges

Pierced Lady

More OPP

2007-04-14T22:14:00.000-07:00

(other people's pictures) I think I could do the shopping cart one, but who leaves that many carts out in the lot?

Africa

Shopping Carts

Ignore the man behind the curtain

2007-04-10T20:05:00.000-07:00

I used to go to this farmer's market by my house, because people told me that farmer's market food is better than grocery store food, I bought into the hype. Until the "Product of Peru" bands showed up on the vegetables, odd we didn't even notice until then they tasted like plain old grocery vegetables. Now I save myself a trip and buy everything at Albertson's.

Tuesday Challenge: Shopping

Picture links.

2007-04-08T17:00:00.000-07:00

Things you don't see everyday

Beer bottle Christmas tree

Arizona Desert

2007-04-04T20:19:00.000-07:00

PhotoTheme Thursday: Colorful

My wife has declared Arizona her least favorite state. Don't get too upset if you're from Arizona, she's only visited 7 or so, although one of them was Michigan...

I'm back

2007-04-04T12:51:00.000-07:00

We were here:

Yes, we along with 43,894 other people (don't these people have jobs?) rode a bus around a 10 mile portion of the Grand Canyon. It was truly epic. My next epic task is Photoshopping out a few pieces of dust that were on the sensor for every single shot of the trip. Or maybe I won't and you can just pretend those spots aren't there.

The makeup selling business.

2007-03-27T19:38:00.000-07:00

I am still alive, I have just been taking more pictures like the following, since I can not resist making a quick $6.50 on eBay. Notice the excellent stitching? And how I expertly angled the mirror away from anything incriminating.

lily white plants!

2007-03-21T21:08:00.000-07:00

Photosharks: Plants

East bay from Marin county

2007-03-16T20:07:00.000-07:00

See it Sunday: Distance

Blogger Picasa link

2007-03-15T21:14:00.000-07:00

Blogger has made it possible to link all of your photos in one Picasa web album and see them. I have to admit, I looked at my list and thought, where are the good pictures at? Full screen pictures look so much better than scaled down ones, why isn't blogger working on that? Its actually sort of neat, its not as good as say Flickr for individual pictures, but its quick to go through them and no extra uploading is required. Plus the price is right!

Jacob Kearns' Blog

Green

2007-03-14T19:42:00.000-07:00

Lensday: Green

Dessert

2007-03-09T17:45:00.000-08:00

Photo Friday: Addiction

USS Constitution

2007-03-07T20:20:00.000-08:00

Photo Theme Thursday: Old

Its a dragon

2007-03-06T18:08:00.000-08:00

Tuesday Challenge: Zoom

Since I am too lazy to do that thingy where you turn the lens to get closer or sometimes you can change them- which requires having more than one, I chose to interpret zoom as being fast, well- looking fast, well- looking fast to me. OKAY you caught me, I just don't have any good pictures of airplanes (that would require doing that thingy). There, happy?

Thats a dragon that got really close and zoomed right by me, see:

UC Berkeley Clocktower

2007-03-03T15:12:00.000-08:00

See It Sunday entry: Clock

The mall

2007-02-28T19:08:00.000-08:00

Lens Day Entry: Circle

Driftwood cross

2007-02-26T20:05:00.000-08:00

Moody Monday entry: Spiritual

Check it out!

2007-02-20T20:22:00.000-08:00

I put my shared feed items on the right, see how well read I am!

First picture

2007-02-17T20:18:00.000-08:00

Shutterday Entry: First

The first picture I took with the now old Canon. The ceiling was peeling down from a leak in the shower, which took ages for the landlord to fix. He never did fix the ceiling until we moved out, it was very classy. That Martinez apartment was a dump.

Some tree

2007-02-14T17:56:00.000-08:00

Photo Theme Thursday entry: Pink

The Queen Mary 2

2007-02-10T17:36:00.000-08:00

Unique's Photo Challenge entry: Transportation

TransAmerica Pyramid, San Francisco.

2007-02-04T10:28:00.000-08:00

Unique's Photo Challenge Entry: Architecture

SF Panorama

2007-01-31T18:22:00.000-08:00

Photo Sharks entry: Panorama

Its the SF bay, the best I could do, my head is crooked, its not really the slant of the earth. I usually fix it, but since its longer it gets stuck between degrees so its either slanted left of right. Click for bigness.

Tanya

2007-01-31T18:10:00.000-08:00

Photo Theme Thursday entry: People

Mirror view from the balcony.

2007-01-29T22:29:00.000-08:00

Tuesday Challenge submission: Glass

I like this picture of the mirror on the condo balcony.

One big hunk of rock.

2007-01-27T19:26:00.000-08:00

See it Sunday entry: Stone

Vacation.

2007-01-24T20:12:00.000-08:00

"Leave car doors unlocked and no valuables inside..."

Photo Theme for Thursday: Vacation

Wind rain and mud.

2007-01-19T20:55:00.000-08:00

Photosharks entry: Bad weather

Fine, you people who don't live in California have this one easy.

$1500 a night will get you.

2007-01-18T21:29:00.000-08:00

Photo Theme Thursday entry: wealth

Hana cross

2007-01-16T18:30:00.000-08:00

Photosharks Challenge: Faith
Photo Friday: Peaceful

I couldn't resist the double entry, call me lazy. This cross is in Hana Maui.

One

2006-12-30T19:01:00.000-08:00

Unique's Photo Challenge Entry: one

That grand canyon jumper photographer.

2006-12-26T22:03:00.000-08:00

Okay, everyone has seen these pictures but me, but this guy is awesome.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

I'm still not sure I think its real though.

Oh.

A California Christmas.

2006-12-24T21:43:00.000-08:00

Unique's Photo Challenge Entry: Christmas Holidays.

Complete with Macy's and palm trees. Taken at Union Square.

Anchorman

2006-12-24T21:02:00.000-08:00

Moody Monday: Re-gifting

The DVD, not the poodle or the comforter, which I'm going on record now saying my ex picked out.

But of course?

2006-12-20T18:44:00.000-08:00

Lens Day Challenge: Shimmer.

I don't know

2006-12-20T18:28:00.000-08:00

Photo Sharks Thursday Contest: Macro
I don't know what this thing is, it sprouted off the tree in the back.

Jackpoo

2006-12-19T20:39:00.000-08:00

The poodle needs a haircut.

Thursday Challenge submission: Happy

too small

2006-12-18T19:11:00.000-08:00

Every year thousands of elephant seals fly in from Alaska to winter in sunny California. I saw a bunch of them at Ano Nuevo the other day, neat place.

San Francisco skyline again.

2006-12-17T19:38:00.000-08:00

See it Sunday entry: City --Oops closed, what kind of crazy time are they on, I demand they move to PST like the rest of the civilized world.

On pelicans.

2006-12-16T18:34:00.000-08:00

Pelicans (brown pelicans anyway) are the without a doubt the most interesting birds of the east San Francisco bay. There are a couple types of storks that might give the pelican a run for their money, until you realize that they just stand around digging in the mud all the time. Really the only cool thing about them is they are big, but then so are pelicans.

The approach:

and the dive (with the bay bridge in the background):

This dive is better framed with the city in the background, but worse timed:
Its not easy to get the pelicans to cooperate and pose in good weather. First off, they patrol a large area, I think there about 6 of them total along an 8 mile stretch of the bay I go by. There may be more, but I've never seen more than 4 out at a time, today I saw 4 in 3 hours and most days I see none. The thing that makes it easier, is that when they do start diving, they usually dive in the same spot several times. It also helps if it is high tide and they are much closer to shore. Anyway, I'm done with pelicans for now! Okay one more since blogger puts each new picture at the top so its kinda fun to move it down:

Idaho.

2006-12-13T17:13:00.000-08:00

Thursday Challenge: Cold (and it was!)
Tuesday Challenge: Winter (and it was!)

A tree in a store.

2006-12-12T20:41:00.000-08:00

I forget which. Lens Day Submission: Holiday (I believe if you use the word Christmas now you get sued)

Poodle.

2006-12-10T20:26:00.000-08:00

The poodle ripped that ear right off the pig this morning and then taunted me with it all day.

Farmer's Market fruit selection.

2006-12-09T16:41:00.000-08:00

See it Sunday: Multicolor

Yummy cauliflower.

2006-12-09T14:02:00.000-08:00

Photo Friday: Fresh

From the farmer's market, you can see the dirt still on it! I passed but bought the broccoli right next to it, thats why its gone. Then we ate it for lunch with hamburger helper, which just seems wrong.

The trashcan.

2006-12-05T20:29:00.000-08:00

There is alot of choices for a poodle in this picture.

Spinach quiche.

2006-12-03T20:40:00.000-08:00

Macroday: Cooking submission. If its fresh out of the oven its still cooking right? The expertly chopped broccoli was my contribution. It looks much better if you click on it to get the full sized version.

I take pictures of pelicans too.

2006-12-03T15:39:00.000-08:00

Well one pelican, and I think mine is uglier Monterey John's pelicans, I guess the pretty ones live south some.

I think I figured out the key.

2006-12-01T19:57:00.000-08:00

This is from today, I think the key is to go to the same area every night and you end up with the same pictures. Funny how that works out. 10 minutes earlier and I think the picture would have been better, or if I could hold things steady.

Always the same around here.

2006-11-30T19:32:00.000-08:00

These two pictures were taken 2 weeks apart, amazing huh!? I was a few feet down the path in the first one than the second one, but the sunset looks almost the same. That little fork thing in the second one is where the hobos hang out, you can see the flat roof if you look closely, the fork post holds up some sort of sleeping type place.

Scary or ugly.

2006-11-30T19:11:00.000-08:00

Photosharks contest theme: scary. This is me in my normal day to day clothes that I wear about town. I think this self pic of me by me is pure genius. No one else agrees, but I'm stubborn. My wife suggested entering wedding pictures... I didn't take any of those though.

Just FYI

2006-11-29T13:30:00.000-08:00

Gender reassignment surgery is cheaper than you'd think at the Reed Center. You still won't be able to have kids though. Actually, I'm not certain about that part, just making an educated guess.

California Capitol Building

2006-11-28T18:58:00.000-08:00

Tuesday Challenge: Buildings

Jacob Kearns' Blog

Hmm

Pitfall, Goob, Artillary, X-Wing Disk

A Ground Rounder with cheese

Zach Rounds

Coyote Update

Cow update

Rave reviews for my stock photography

Manly post

Not a dog picture.

Do not mess with the poodle now

Beat up dog

Lighthouses

Obamamania

My best whale picture

Back from Hawaii

Killer Tiger?

Missed my turkey picture chance

What I had for lunch today

Rocktober!

Those are coyotes

Yours for cheap

Jumping/running/bounding/skipping poodle

I took this picture for work

New view

Me

Tanya at the ROM

Photos mapped!

*** FEATURED SITE OF THE YEAR ***

Poodle vs. oyster

lighthouse

You would wet your pants too

Just lean out a little further dearest

We all watched the girl in the blue

Old red bridge

Sailboating on the San Francisco Bay.

Coast Redwoods California.

Not average

OPP

QM2

Pictures of people "working" at Google

Scenic Richmond, CA

Santa Cruz boardwalk.

Good dog

And I was running

Its working

I broke it

My weekend fun

More OPP

More OPP

Ignore the man behind the curtain

Picture links.

Arizona Desert

I'm back

The makeup selling business.

lily white plants!

East bay from Marin county

Blogger Picasa link

Green

Dessert

USS Constitution

Its a dragon

UC Berkeley Clocktower

The mall

Driftwood cross

Check it out!

First picture

Some tree

The Queen Mary 2

TransAmerica Pyramid, San Francisco.

SF Panorama

Tanya

Mirror view from the balcony.

One big hunk of rock.

Vacation.

Wind rain and mud.

$1500 a night will get you.

Hana cross

One

That grand canyon jumper photographer.

* FEATURED SITE OF THE YEAR *