Local entrant Juliana Diane is a late starter for the Entries for the Gap Casting Call | Disney Family. You can view more photos of Juliana at her very own website http://www.JulianaDiane.com
— Juliana was born at Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara. Her family (that’s me!) would love very much to have the support of the Santa Barbara Community — Please vote for Juliana!

Local Solvang Resident Connie Cody was up at Neverland Ranch on Sunday and snapped these photos of people gathering near the entrance to Neverland, following the death of Michael Jackson.

A buddy of mine, Robert Klinger snapped these images below and the First Video is by myself followed by Roberts Videos spliced together. Enjoy!

Santa Barbara isn’t the only place where you can enjoy the Beach! Today we headed to the beach, or rather drove, with baby in tow to Santa Claus Lane. I didn’t know he had his own Beach. Accessed by crossing over the railroad tracks, through a few big rocks…and what a view. The castle Home is amazing. I’d like to get more information about it!

So here’s the first batch of processed photos from the 2009 Solstice parade. I was able to shoot over 400 images, and selecting them is the hardest part of displaying them. I also have some videos to process and post later on, perhaps in the next few days.

Well Solstice is tomorrow, and I headed on over to Alameda Park to check out the Friday festivities. Here’s a look at what you can expect to find tomorrow after the Parade – that’s if you can manage your way through the crowds! Now you can be prepared by knowing what kind of food, clothing and water (the sign Says”Support Solstice Buy REAL WATER” – Just what other kind of Water is there I have to wonder!) .

So I’ve been wanting to know when the Fiesta Poster Competition was going to be held. About a month ago I called the Fiesta Offices and was told that it was up to the Fiesta President to decide whether or not there would actually be a contest, I and a few other artists were interested in entering a piece for consideration.

So I emailed the fiesta office today as a follow up and the President Anthony Borgatello to find out what’s [...]

So, here’s the days catch of photographs from the iMadonnari festival this Memorial day over at the Santa Barbara Mission. The crowd was plentiful and everyone was abuzz looking and chatting it up. Meanwhile I got some fairly decent snapshots of the Artwork and here they are. Page may take a little while to load as there are over 50 images there.

Summer is almost here, which means ripe time for B-B-Qing. and that means Tri-Tip in Santa Barbara County.

Quoted from Wikipedia.org:
The tri-tip is a cut of beef from the bottom sirloin primal cut. It is a small triangular muscle, usually 1.5 to 2.5 lbs. (675 to 1,150g) per side of beef.

In the United States, this cut was typically used for ground beef or sliced into steaks until the late 1950s, when it became a local specialty in Santa Maria, California, rubbed [...]

There were a lot of News Media around today at the Courthouse to cover the Jesse James Hollywood Trial. QUOTE: SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — Jesse James Hollywood ordered the murder of a 15-year-old boy after kidnapping him to force the teen’s half-brother to pay a $1,200 drug debt, a prosecutor said Friday during his opening trial statement in the case that was made into the 2007 movie “Alpha Dog.”