Monthly Archives: July 2008

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Hot Summer Nights

Orange Kustom uploaded by admin. The town of Danville holds a custom car and cigar-smoking festival on Thursday nights and it always provides some interesting photographic challenges. I loved the symmetry and color of this car and I altered the background of the photo to … Read More

Unperturbed

Unperturbed uploaded by admin. My experience with quail is that they are shy and sensitive, fleeing at the approach of humans. This fellow seemed to be oblivious to me and to the golfer just behind. Perhaps he was standing gurad.

Sea Ranch: Savannah Sparrow

Savannah Sparrow uploaded by admin. I’m always taken aback by the magnitude of the song this Savannah Sparrow produces. It’s way out of kilter in relationship to its size.

Wild Rose

Not so wild rose uploaded by admin. Several weeks ago while we were on a vacation hike, we spotted a wild rose growing along the side of the path. Brigitte wanted to see if we could take some cuttings and grow our own. That experiment … Read More

Silvery Blue

Silvery Blue uploaded by admin. During a rest stop on Highway One near Fort Ross, we saw a lovely butterfly and spent a while getting ever closer to it. It is called a Silvery Blue butterfly, Glaucopsyche lygdamus.

BumbleBee & Lupin

Bumblebee uploaded by admin. I was photographing in the Botanical Garden at Tilden park this weekend and found an industrious bumblebee working the Lupins.

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Moon, Planets and a Star

Conjunction uploaded by admin. Last night, after sunset, a nice display was put on by the Planets Saturn & Mars, the star Regulus and the waxing, cresent Moon.

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Hey! Get back here….

Aw Mom uploaded by admin. I was out on the coast looking at a colony of California Gulls when I saw a rock move. Turns out that it was a gull chick, cleverly disgused to look just like the rocks. I liked this frame where … Read More

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Faultline

Sag Pond uploaded by admin. My wife and I were walking a wonderful trail in the redwoods near the Gualala River at The Sea Ranch. We happened on this scene on a morning when the fires were sending a lot of smoke our way. Fires … Read More

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Sea Ranch Sunset

Sunset uploaded by admin. This photo is an amalgam of 2 exposures, one of the sunset and one of the foreground. The camera isn’t capable of seeing the way we do and in order to represent what I saw, it’s necessary to combine the two. … Read More