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For everyone that has moved here from places that celebrate wildly when the thermometer goes above 50 degrees in the winter, snow in Orange County may be the last thing you'd want to cheer. However, for a boy born in Hawaii who has lived here most of his life, snow gets me all giddy. The recent rains and low temps over the past few days brought us a nice little blanket of snow up on Saddleback Mountain. I thought I'd share a few pics from this morning.

This was taken near the end of Rancho Santa Margarita Lake; I took pictures of the wildfires from this vantage last year.

This is a wider shot looking up Trabuco Creek.

This is a sequence of 22 photographs, all stitched together. The actual size of the image is 29,620 pixels wide - if you were to print that, it would be 17 inches tall by 13 feet long - that's a huge image!

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I was showing homes in Belcara & Pienza in the Pacific Ridge area of Newport Coast a few days ago and I was saying goodbye to my clients when the sky just erupted in color. I grabbed my camera and shot as fast as I could, trying to capture every bit of the sunset as it moved through the most vibrant & electric colors I've seen in recent times.

Here are a few of the better panoramas I was able to stitch together:

This was the first panorama I took; you can see my headlights in the left of the image.

I stopped in the Pienza tract to grab this photo; I like the strong silhouette of the trees and homes against the sky (to say nothing of the amazing sky).

This is my favorite of the four; the range of color in the sky... the three separate lightening dark purple-blacks of the hills as they step towards the horizon... Catalina in the distance on a bed of clouds... a few lights sparkling in someone's Pelican Hill abode...

That's Catalina Island floating on a sea of purple and eggplant-colored clouds. This is about ten vertical photos that I stitched together to make one long panorama. Given the late hour and the fact that I didn't have a tripod, I was stoked to see that the images were sharp enough to keep...

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