A test post to see what settings allow scheduling a post for a specific time. The image is a previous one of El Capitan in Yosemite

A serene afternoon on the coast of California.

From a short but lovely hike today in Briones Regional Park. There were 4 Kites hunting in a very small area.

After a long day of looking for waterfowl in the San Luis Wildlife Refuges we decided to head to the San Luis Reservoir in hopes of an interesting sunset. The sunset itself was not awe-inspiring but the afterglow was pretty cool.

One more from 2003. Mono Lake at sunrise in late October. As I remember, it was in the high 30′s before sunrise. You gotta wanna be there.

Lundy Lake Canyon, October 2003. There are a series of beaver ponds up the canyon that can offer great views and small details both.

I’ve been working on a Lightroom catalog of older images going back to 2002. Something that’s been discussed is opening original raw files in the latest conversion tools. It is amazing how much detail LR can pul out of earlier files. This is a 2003 shot I took in Yosemite with my 10D. There was no detail in the foreground at all, just black silhouettes. 20 minutes in LR and something I might have thrown away is not all that bad….

After an early morning at the Golden Gate and a most welcome rest stop at Peets, we headed to Muir Woods National Monument. It is an astonishingly beautiful place that’s very hard to capture in photographs. There are deciduous trees among the redwoods and they are starting to turn. This one stood out because of the dark bark.

This is a view of the Golden Gate Bridge from Fort Baker before sunrise. I find it hard to believe that I’ve lived here for 28 years and this is the first time I’ve been this close.

A group of us got up at O-Dark-Thirty and made our way to Fort Baker in Sausalito to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge in early light. That produced some iconic (boring) photos. As I looked around for whatever else was hiding in the glare of the bridge, I saw this section under the north approach. The play of light and forms was interesting to me.