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| Ghosts - San Francisco 2015 |
. . . seen in San Francisco.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
Friday, October 30, 2015
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Motorcycle #1
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| Post Rock - Seattle 1998 |
One of my continuing selection of 1990's photos. Taken in . . .um, Seattle, I think.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Late September, San Francisco
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| King St. Off-Ramp - San Francisco 2015 |
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| Orange Cone, Concrete - San Francisco 2015 |
High cloud cover. I was using an Olympus 25mm (prime) lens (50mm equiv.).
Monday, October 26, 2015
Monday Blackbird Blogging
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| Blackbirds - Marin County 2015 |
Circling in the mist high above the San Geronimo Valley.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
Bougainvillea
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| Bougainvillea - Los Angeles 1997 |
I've been recently going through some photos from the 90s. In the late 90s I switched from using Tmax black and white film for my 35mm camera to Kodacolor 200, reasoning that scanning technology was improving and digital printing was on the horizon.
Saturday, October 24, 2015
Robot
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| Robot - San Francisco 2015 |
Mike happened to find himself at the UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital last month. Wandering through the corridors he came across this autonomous robot rolling down the hallway intent on delivering clean laundry.
Whoa.
Wired Magazine did a piece on it, entitled "This Incredible Hospital Robot Is Saving Lives. Also, I Hate It."
Friday, October 23, 2015
Jean Paul
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| Jean Paul - Oakland 2015 |
Another Oakland shot. I was using an Olympus E-PL5 and a Panasonic 20mm lens.
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Jaguar, Palm Tree
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| Jaguar, Palm Tree - Marin County 2015 |
At the Jaguar/Volvo dealership in Corte Madera.
No, we didn't get either a Jaguar or a Volvo, but it was fun to look.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
San Rafael Sightems
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| Men, Boat - San Rafael 2015 |
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| Asian Market - San Rafael 2015 |
Walking around San Rafael, waiting for my car to be repaired.
Monday, October 19, 2015
Sunday, October 18, 2015
Flowers with Smoke . . .
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| Building (Smoke) - San Anselmo 2015 |
. . . creating a yellowish haze in the east.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
Camping Trivia
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| Propane Canister - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Bottom of the propane canister Mike was using for his recent camping trip. He bought it in August, 2007.
Eight years old!
Friday, October 16, 2015
Moon & Sunset Pix
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| Moon, Red Cloud - Marin County 2015 |
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| Sunset, Redwoods - Marin County 2015 |
I rarely take sunset photos, but I made an exception in this case.
More moon shots here. Hm . . . some are quite nice!
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Next Door Neighbor's Fruit
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| Fruit - Marin County 2015 |
While I was being shot down by olive fruit flies, Gail, our next door neighbor, had her usual abundant harvest.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Store Windows
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| Pacific East Mall Store Window - Richmond 2015 |
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| Piedmont - San Francisco 2015 |
Store windows in San Francisco and the East Bay.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Sad Olives
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| Damaged Olives - Marin County 2015 |
Alert readers will recall earlier accounts of my experiments with harvesting and brining olives. Alas, the last two years' crops were a total failure due to the presence of olive fruit flies. After last year's disaster I was prepared to give up on any kind of harvest, but I didn't. Instead, this year I installed two (2) fruit fly traps. They're ball-shaped, using yeast pellets as attractant dissolved in water at the bottom. (See below.)
Alas again, they didn't work well enough to protect the olives. Many fruit flies were trapped, but not nearly enough to prevent another total loss.
So . . . what to do? The next option presented at an olive seminar I attended was to prevent the tree from fruiting, either through some sort of chemical spray, or by physically knocking the flowers off in the spring. But you would have to be prepared to do that every year, indefinitely . . .
It might be time to look into replacing the tree with a fruitless variety.
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| Olive Trap #1 - Marin County 2015 |
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| Olive Trap #2 - Marin County 2015 |
Monday, October 12, 2015
Monday Fawn Blogging
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| Fawn - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Two fawns and their mother were grazing in the aspen forest during my mini-hike. Mostly unconcerned, but somewhat curious.
Sunday, October 11, 2015
Mountains On The Way Back
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| Mountains, Clouds - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Mountains, Clouds, Telephone Poles, Cows - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Photos taken from the Green Creek campground road, going out to Bridgeport.
Top photo taken looking west with an Olympus 9-18mm zoom lens set to 9mm (18 equiv.). Bottom photo taken looking east with an Olympus 14-150mm zoom lens set to 100mm (200 equiv.).
Alas, no more spectacular views the rest of the way home, even though my route took me over Sonora Pass.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
Camp Departure
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| Truck, Aspen Trunks, Campsite (Green Creek) - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Road (Green Creek) - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Not as hectic a departure as my last camping trip.
Friday, October 9, 2015
Green Creek A.M. Mini-Hike #2
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| Mountain Ridge, Clouds - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Aspen, Granite - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Thursday, October 8, 2015
Green Creek A.M. Mini-Hike #1
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| Aspens, Clouds, Mountains - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Very little sleep during the night. When I finally got up in the morning darkness there were clouds dimly discerned overhead. And it was relatively warm! 61 degrees, no jacket required.
First things first: boil some water for the Starbucks instant coffee with an indeterminate amount of Coffeemate added. Then go for a mini-hike on the East Lake trail.
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| Mike, Coffee - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Aspens #3
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| Aspens - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Aspens - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
For these 6:45 AM shots I set the camera to aperture priority, using F6.3 for depth of field purposes. The bottom photo was taken at 1/15th second . . . luckily the camera (Olympus E-M10 has image stabilization built-in.)
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Forest Details
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| False Hellebores - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Pine Cones - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Found in and around the Green Creek Campground.
Monday, October 5, 2015
Monday Dog Blogging
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| Cassie - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
Vince is the Camp Host at Green Creek Campground, and a photographer. (!)
His web site: vincentgoetz
Sunday, October 4, 2015
Green Creek
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| Green Creek - Sierra Nevada 2008 |
I didn't get any great photos of Green Creek this time, so I thought I'd post an older photo from 2008.
A photomerge . . . you can see the slightly odd curvature in the ripples. Taken with an Olympus E-510 digital SLR.
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Aspens #2
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| Aspens (Evening) - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Aspen Leaves (Backlit) - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
I had foolishly not taken the tripod (not for what was supposed to be a backpack). Top shot taken at 1/60th second, F7.1 with an Olympus E-M10. Olympus cameras, using a smaller sensor, have a greater depth of field than larger ones.
Friday, October 2, 2015
Aspens #1
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| Aspen Trunks - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
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| Aspen Leaves - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
If you set up your camp amidst the aspens, you had better be prepared for aspen photos.
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Green Creek Campground
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| Campground (Green Creek) - Sierra Nevada 2015 |
A car camp! I was thinking that if I went north hopefully the smoke would diminish to a more manageable level. At first I was going to go to the Leavitt Meadows campground, but as I drove past Mono Lake I remembered the Green Creek campground.
Hali and I had had an unfortunate bear incident there in 2008, so I was wondering if the campground was now equipped with bear boxes. The ranger station in Bridgeport didn't really have any info, so I decided to chance it.
Yay! Bear boxes! So I set up camp amidst the aspens.
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