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| Lenticular Clouds - Death Valley 1976 |
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| Sun, Shadows, Clouds - Death Valley 1976 |
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| Willets - Sonoma County 1976 |
I've listed the location as Sonoma County, but that's a guess. Don't remember taking this, but it's right there on the contact sheet.
"The willet is a particularly elegant and heavily built shorebird" says Wikipedia. So it seems! Bird ID from Barbara, as usual.
Photo cropped from a 35mm negative taken by a Nikon F SLR.
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| Red Hill (Owens Valley) - Inyo County 1976 |
Looks to be an early sunrise photo (based on the shadows). There's an earlier photo of the cone on the blog taken in 2022.
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| Bobo's Bonanza Coffee Shop (Lone Pine) - Owens Valley 1976 |
The one photo on the contact sheet that has a definite location. Old timers still remember Bobo's Bonanza fondly.
In fact, I still have Bobo's business card pinned to the corkboard next to the computer.
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| Bobo's Bonanza Business Card (Fairfax) - Marin County 2026 |
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| Hali, Mike, Elk Cove Bed and Breakfast - Mendocino County 1976 |
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| Hali, Mike, Sky Camp - Point Reyes 1976 |
Unlike most film photos, I can definitely put an exact month and year to these ones. Fun!
Top photo: Hali and Mike at a bed and breakfast in Elk Grove, Mendocino County.
Bottom: Hali and Mike camping out at Sky Camp in Point Reyes.
50 years ago!
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| Ubehebe Crater - Death Valley 1976 |
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| Vehicle, Rocks, Mountains - Death Valley 1976 |
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| Mt. Whitney, Clouds - Owens Valley 1976 |
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| Sierra Crest - Owens Valley 1976 |
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| Desert Pond - Owens Valley 1976 |
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| Desert River - Owens Valley 1976 |
I'm thinking Owens Valley as a location due to the water features. That might not be a river in the bottom photo - maybe recent rain water in a wash.
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| White Cat (Cloverdale) - Sonoma County 1976 |
Taken in March, 1976, as we were driving up to Elk Cove for a bed and breakfast stay.
Can't remember exactly why we stopped in Cloverdale, but I do remember the cat scooting by me, then leaping up on the fence, waiting there just long enough for me to take the photo.
I used a Nikon F SLR with Panatomic-X film.
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| Cloud, Desert Hills - Death Valley 1976 |
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| Cloud, Desert Hills - Death Valley 1976 |
I've been scanning some 1976 negatives recently and found some interesting desert scenes, evidently taken by me in the first quarter of 1976.
I don't remember the trip! I think that my brother Joe and I took a quick excursion northeast from Los Angeles to some of our favorite spots in Owens and Death Valleys. I've listed the location of these photos as Death Valley . . . they certainly look Death Valley-ish.
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| Giants - San Francisco 2026 |
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| Brick Building - San Francisco 2026 |
Lower photo taken using the iPhone's wide angle option, then perspective-corrected in Photoshop. I've illustrated this procedure in an earlier post.
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| AI Billboard - San Francisco 2026 |
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| St. Ignatius - San Francisco 2026 |
The church has appeared before in the blog, peeking out over a parked Waymo. Someday I must actually walk by for a better view.
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| Costco Hot Dog - San Francisco 2026 |
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| Costco Asian Products - San Francisco 2026 |
For various reasons we found ourselves having the famous hot dog meal at the Costco in San Francisco.
What a value!
It was interesting that the various Asian food products available almost rivaled H Mart.
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| Richmond Bridge - Marin County 2026 |
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| San Quentin Buildings - Marin County 2026 |
Photos taken with a Sony RX100 while taking the ferry over to San Francisco.
By the way, San Quentin is now officially known as "San Quentin Rehabilitation Center." Interesting writeup in Wikipedia.
