http://alexlombardi.com and occasional random musings Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:16:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Abandoned places-a favourite subject of photographers.  You can find dozens of websites devoted solely to finding interesting, desolate places to explore, some in surprising locations.  Even in a large, populated city like LA, you can find plenty of structures with their days of practical use well behind them. There's some unease ... http://alexlombardi.com/abandoned/the-remains/ http://alexlombardi.com/global-trekking/hong-kong-quiet/ There's a bit of a bug going around So Cal at the moment, and I caught it. I was pretty much incapacitated for the weekend, but I would have felt bad if it had been a complete waste of time, so I caught up on some old photos. ... http://alexlombardi.com/travel/a-photojournalists-dream/ ... but something new. The UCI Anthill Pub recently reopened, and they've asked me for some of my old photos of the place to hang up on the walls. I've been looking at getting a film scanner for a long time now, so I decided to finally go ... http://alexlombardi.com/journalism/something-old/ http://alexlombardi.com/slideshow/ride-santa-ride/ It usually comes as a surprise to people that half my family is Argentinian, probably owing to me looking as Irish as Guinness, but yes, I've got a Latin half, and that's who I visited on this trip. A few years ago when the Argentinian banks went crazy, my ... http://alexlombardi.com/global-trekking/sweet-globalisation/ I went to Hong Kong a while back, but never got around to posting any photos. It isn't that I didn't have time; rather, I've just been saving it for this website. As luck would have it though, I'm travelling again, off to London in ... http://alexlombardi.com/global-trekking/im-off-again-but-first-things-first/ A couple of weeks ago, I headed over to Downtown Disney to photograph Albert's youth orchestra. His group performed at the reception for the Truman Awards, a dinner hosted by the Democratic Party of Orange County. It's probably not a stretch to say that Albert hates being upstaged, ... http://alexlombardi.com/music/irvine-young-artists-and-john-edwards/ It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here: hello and welcome to my official site! I've been wanting to combine my blog with a gallery system, but I didn't have a whole lot of web programming experience and thought it best to outsource. I looked around ... http://alexlombardi.com/slideshow/ground-control-to-major-tom/ I'll take a brief break from the wedding photos to post some landscapes. I shot these down in Laguna using a tripod Cherise got me a little while ago. http://alexlombardi.com/archive/and-now-for-something-completely-different/