More goodies. There was a high surf advisory on Saturday for North Bay, so I decided to head up and see what I could see.
Now out on Rodeo Beach I hung around for awhile and saw these massive swells that surged by. I figured they were heading southeast or so but hard to tell the exact direction. But it was kinda nuts how they just rose out of the water and just moseyed on by:
And the colors are totally nutso (on purpose, way out of whack) on this but I kinda got a kick out of it:
— Alan
A few other shots from around North Bay:
— Alan
WarrenM
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Got a new camera. Bought a new holder for my Wacom stylus…
Editer
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I’m doing Project 365 this year – a photo a day. Tried it a couple of years ago and fizzled out in a couple of weeks.
Didn’t have any shot opportunities today by 8 pm, so I threw together a small LEGO kit and grabbed some books from the bookshelf…
From one old flight simmer to another, everyone knows the Sopwith Camel didn’t have rivets on the lower… ah, wait.
It’s suprising how little it takes to create an image with context and depth. All you need is a little creativity! Good luck on your next 364 shoots! :)
Houngan
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Far and away my favorite, the colors burn on this one. I’d pay $20 for a print, if it could maintain the contrast.
Case
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In the woods, outside Queenstown.
Looking out across Lake Wakatipu.
Cruising on Doubtful Sound
Chased by the half-moon
Case
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Rainfall generated waterfalls
Low hanging clouds over Doubtful Sound
Rocks and water near Lake Te Anau
Clouds over One Tree Hill
Case
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My daughter kicks up her heels in front of Bag End
Looking at the Green Dragon Inn, past the Party Tree in Hobbiton
Fireworks from the Skytower in Auckland on New Year’s Eve
Panorama looking out across a beach on an island near Auckland
metta
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A few snaps from the Xmas trip to Banff Sula and I just got back from:
Reemul
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Greta shots Case, looks great there.
Metta really like yours, snow and white is not easy to shoot, love the second shot.
Dejin
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Awesome shots everyone.
Alan, where did you take these from?
Those are from the eastern summit of Mt. Tam.
More shots! Went to Sutro Baths today to see the famous Sutro Sam, a river otter that has taken up residence in the freshwater pools that make up the ruins of the baths. There’s a bit of food up in those pools (apparently it’s a traditional dumping ground for folks’ pet fish). I wanted to see him before he took off (the theory is he’ll run out of food and head back to Marin at some point soon). Today he was observed moving large patches of grass and weeds from one end of the main pool to someplace hidden (underneath one of the walls). Probably making a nest of some kind, but no one knows really where.
Sutro Baths:
Sam Watch:
Watched 2 USCG patrol boats and a Dauphin head out during this time in close order, though I figure it was probably an exercise (since the boats came around to near offshore and just hung around beyond the breaking waves):
Sam:
— Alan
This actually looks way better than any shot of The Shire from the new Hobbit movie. (Which is not intended to be damning with faint praise. It’s a great shot and I would love if the movie looked more like this.)
QFMFT.
-xtien
“He’s got worms in his tubes.”
After Sutro Baths yesterday I hung out around Ocean Beach:
— Alan
You’re giving me coast envy Alan (says the man sitting in a freezing cold New England office, thinking back to his one visit to the West Coast.)
Isn’t necessarily shorts weather up here either. I was freezing. I couldn’t believe the kids were out there playing in the surf in barefoot.
— Alan
Reemul
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Shot of the Picnic Area tables at Moors Valley, taken in HDR using in camera settings and developed using Lightroom 4. It was very cold and fresh pretty much zero degrees and waiting on snow.
Toadstool Seating by Reemul, on Flickr
I was moving over some of my older D7000 pics over for easy access on the iMac and I decided that I should revisit some of them and see what else I could pull out or missed, and re-do some of them as I think I can re-work them a bit better than I did in the past.
A couple of storms:
One of the problems with the iMac is that the screen is too dang bright. Everything that looks like a proper brightness shows up less so on my other monitors so it’s a little disconcerting. The two above ought to be at decent brightness but now they seem a bit dark.
This one shot from Nebraska is slightly different than one I published earlier. One thing I hadn’t noticed until I was randomly processing it was that there’s a big inflow band at the far bottom right, which is a visible tail of moist air that’s flowing right into the storm (my viewpoint is from behind it, looking basically straight east, so the band is probably on the southeast side):
This is a much better version of a short time-lapse at Point Sur (with Venus visible on the upper right):
Originally I didn’t know if I could do anything with this as it was almost completely blown out, but it worked out decently at least:
Loved these dogs:
I hadn’t bothered with panoramas much either until I realized I could stitch this one together of the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado:
And finally I did some stacking, this time of some fireworks for the Golden Gate anniversary (this is 5 short time-lapses stacked on top of each other):
— Alan
