Shake Shack

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If you drive just a little south of Newport Beach, California on Pacific Coast Highway, you’ll find Crystal Cove State Park just down the highway a bit. It’s a great park with over three miles of beach where you can … Continue reading

Purple Flowers

Purple Flowers © 2012 Bob Ransom. All rights reserved.

I’d tell you what these are if I had any sort of clue. My knowledge of plants is, unfortunately, just about zero. Shot on the bluffs overlooking the Pacific at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, California.

Take a Dip

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An overhead view of a hotel pool in Laguna Beach, CA.

DFW Hell

Repeated gate changes, weather delays, overbooked flights, stand-by status. Ugh. © 2012 Bob Ransom. All rights reserved.

Repeated gate changes, weather delays, overbooked flights, stand-by status. Ugh. Traveling through Dallas-Ft. Worth has become as bad as traveling through O’Hare.

More from Miami Beach

Miami Music Fest © 2012 Bob Ransom. All rights reserved.

Before I head out of town again tomorrow, I thought I’d get the rest of the Miami photos uploaded. All in all, it wasn’t a (photographically) productive trip — there are a couple of okay shots but definitely nothing portfolio-worthy. … Continue reading

Easter Egg Hiding

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Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate the holiday. While taking the dog out this morning, I noticed that the Easter bunny had hidden this egg under a shell on a table on my front porch.

Not-so-quiet Miami Beach

Crowded Beach © 2012 Bob Ransom. All rights reserved.

Looking for quiet solitude to relax and stare out at the ocean? Miami Beach is probably not your best choice. This is just your average Friday in March. But even a packed beach is better than no beach at all.

Rocks

Rocks in a planter outside the Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, March, 2012. © 2012 Bob Ransom. All rights reserved.

Life lately has been mostly work, work, work and, given what I do, that means travel, travel, travel. Most of February and all of March were spent traveling on business. I just returned from spending two weeks in Miami Beach … Continue reading

Spring?

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I’ve been traveling for the better part of the past month and, in my mind, I still think it’s the beginning of February — in other words, winter, wimpy though it was this year. So I was extremely surprised when … Continue reading

Starbucks Ghosttown

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I stopped by a Starbucks tonight to get a little work done while waiting to pick my son up from a concert and it was unlike any Starbucks that I normally frequent — it was empty! It was kind of … Continue reading

On the Road Again

PBF2012_6860 © 2012 Bob Ransom. All rights reserved.

The business meeting season is back upon us.* For those that don’t know, I spend a good deal of my professional life as an art director for live events. I’ve been working for the past couple of months on art … Continue reading