Grass, Hills, Clouds

Grass, Hills, Clouds (Fairfax) - Marin County  2026

Grass, Hill, Clouds (Fairfax) - Marin County  2026

Morning walk iPhone pix. Bottom one used the wide-angle option.

Ferns / Moon

Ferns (Fairfax) - Marin County  2026

Moon, Redwoods (Fairfax) - Marin County  2026

Ferns seen just below a local foot bridge in the back - iPhone.

Redwoods and moon seen on a morning walk - Sony RX100.

Oak Branches / Rainbow

Oak Branches - Marin County  2026

Rainbow - Marin County  2026

Top photo taken in January, using a Sony RX100. Bottom one in March, using an iPhone.

Mt. Diablo - January

Mt. Diablo from Sky Oaks Road, Sunrise - Marin County  2026

Mt. Diablo from Sky Oaks Road - Marin County  2026

Both photos taken on the same day in January, the top one while driving in for my hike around Lake Lagunitas, the bottom one while driving out.

Monday Wood Duck Blogging

Wood Ducks - Lake Lagunitas  2026

Wood Duck - Lake Lagunitas  2026

I've been seeing them on a pretty regular basis recently.  

Both photos taken with a Nikon Z7II, 24-200 zoom lens. Substantially cropped.

Sunrise - Mt. Tamalpais

Sunrise, Mt. Tamalpais - Lake Lagunitas  2026

Taken last January . . . an iPhone photo. The iPhone software has a tendency towards HDR-like dramatic photos . . . although I can't remember now how realistic this rendition is. 

Flags - Allentown / Asbury Park

Flags (Allentown) - Pennsylvania  2018

Flags (Asbury Park) - New Jersey  2018

Once again, as in past holidays, I found some older flag-themed pix on my external hard drive.

Nevada Sightems (1987)

Hotel (Elko) - Nevada  1987

Hills, Clouds - Nevada  1987

Last of the 1987 scans . . . for now.

Piano - South Dakota (1987)

Piano - South Dakota 1987

We were in South Dakota to visit my grandparents in Aberdeen, staying at a motel in the vicinity. By that time they had moved out of their house to a smaller senior apartment.

So this photo had to have been taken in a relative's house. Alas, I don't have the slightest memory of the place. Oh well . . . although I don't think I ever made a print of the negative, the photo is actually kind of cool.

Motel - Idaho

Motel - Idaho  1987

Motel - Idaho  1987

Cafe attached to our Twin Falls motel, I think. Interesting.

Firehole Falls

Firehole Falls (Yellowstone NP) - Wyoming  1987

On the same roll of film as last week's Little Bighorn photo.

I knew that the photo was taken in Yellowstone, but I thought that it was one of the Yellowstone Falls, upper or lower. But no, uploading the photo to Google got the correct name and location.

Monday Pigeon Blogging

Pigeon (Fairfax) - Marin County  2026

Pigeon (Fairfax) - Marin County  2026

"The band-tailed pigeon (Patagioenas fasciata) is a pigeon native to the Americas, and one of the largest pigeons in this region. It is largely gray, but with a thin white collar on the nape and a purple-gray breast.

"The genus Patagioenas is the most closely related living genus to the extinct passenger pigeon, and as a species of this genus, the band-tailed pigeon has been investigated for the potential use in efforts to bring back the passenger pigeon species."

Morning walk sightems.

Roy's Redwoods - Tripod Shots Using a Nikon Z7II

Burnt Redwood (Roy's Redwoods) - Marin County  2026

Redwood Grove (Roy's Redwoods) - Marin County  2026

I've been wanting to try some tripod shots using my Nikon Z7II, a high-res (45 megapixels) camera. The idea being that using a tripod one can set the ISO to the lowest setting (64) and capture some super detailed shots with relatively long exposure times.

It worked! There's a quite high amount of detail available in extreme enlargements (see below). I guess if I was going to make billboard-sized prints I'd have to use a tripod more often. But as of now I don't have any plans to make billboard-sized prints.

Burnt Redwood (crop) - Marin County  2026

Loma Alta Summit Views

Fencing (Loma Alta) - Marin County  2026

Mt. Tamalpais from Loma Alta - Marin County  2026

Maybe the now-dilapidated fencing was once used for cows. 

I ate a Kirkland Protein Bar at the top, standing up (should have brought my super light backpack chair). Then the foot-pounding trek downhill.