Photography by Ian L. Sitren

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Amber

One from a very exceptional photo shoot with Amber Flowers.

Danger Diabolik

Marisa Mell as Eva in the movie Danger Diabolik being projected on a wall at an event for Palm Springs Modernism Week 2014. The erotic look of her dress and the scene is my idea of Mid-Century Modern.

Modernism Eroticism

Modernism Week, an international event annually in Palm Springs. Alongside is the Fine Arts Fair which can be, in my eyes, a little more fun than just architecture and furniture. Here are some examples from 2015.

Naughty Booty by Steve Maloney.
Photograph of a work at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair during Modernism Week. A more edgy work.
Photograph of a work at the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair during Modernism Week. A more edgy work of similiar scenes painted and photographed in the 1950’s and 1960’s.
A photograph of The World At Your Feet by artist Jay Kelly. At the Palm Springs Fine Art Fair for Modernism Week.

Clouds Timelapse 09-30-2023

Clouds over Palm Springs yesterday in the afternoon through sunset. Lots of movement.

Good Lay Bad Texter

At the Art Festival for Modernism Week Palm Springs in 2015. As I look through the photos from that year, I can say it was a lot of fun. Let’s see what it looks like coming up.

A Win At Reno

A huge congratulations to my friend Patrick Nightingale flying the Palm Springs Air Museum P-63 Kingcobra to a third place Bronze race win at the 2023 Reno Air Races a few weeks ago. This is video from the 2019 race on a GoPro I mounted in the P-63 with Patrick as the pilot that year. It is an exciting ride!

Harvest Moon

The Moon at 99.9% of full. Distance from the Earth approximately 224,625,739 miles. Named the Harvest Moon as it refers to the full Moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox. 09-28-2023 Palm Springs California

Sunspots 09-25-2023

Two prominent Sunspot areas. The larger is designated as AR3435 now comprised of 16 individual Sunspots and covering an area of 913 million square kilometers. The other is AR3445 and is comprised of 32 individual Sunspots. 09-25-2023 Palm Springs California

Crater Tycho

The sharply defined crater at the South is Tycho, named in 1651 after Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. It is estimated to be 108 million years old. Photographed in the waxing gibbous phase of the Moon at an approximate distance of 228,000 miles from the Earth. 09-24-2023 Palm Springs California

Sunspots 09-20-2023

Numerous Sunspots 09-20-2023. The larger area is designated AR3435. At 324 million square miles, it is twice the size of the surface of the Earth.