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Yerba Buena Island Looking Towards San Francisco
I made a little venture out to Yerba Buena Island this morning. I think YBI (as the kids call it) has a mysterious air about – but it’s mostly concocted in my head. Yerba Buena island used to be solely military housing, the enlisted men and their families live on Treasure Island. Treasure Island is…
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Field of Grass Near Fort Ross
Near Fort Ross is the aforementioned tall grass that induced copious amounts of sneezing. See – i wasn’t joking – that’s some serious California Grass. (not this serious though.)
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Fort Ross
Fort Ross was an interesting place. Russian settlers, Native Alaskans and Californians called this place home, all at the same time. It has been called a relationship “chiefly of cooperation,” and is perhaps one of the few examples of different cultures coming together without immediately killing one another. I was there for about 45 minutes…
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Along the Embarcadero: Palm Trees
Sometimes i set out to photograph the things that i see every day thinking that i can make them look really cool. Instead they turn out looking exactly the way they look every day, which isn’t spectacular but isn’t bad, it just… is. is that bad? good i can’t tell? I’ve been experimenting with these…
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Above Berkeley CA: Tilden State Park 2
Leanne decided to lay down on the trail to take pictures of a California Dandelion. We have some of these California Dandelions near the front of our house and they’re at least 4 times the size of any dandelion i’ve ever seen That road down there is the “trail” that runs through Tilden State Park’s…
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Above Berkeley CA: Tilden State Park
Beautiful Tilden State Park, just about 500 yards from Inspiration Point I don’t know what the deal is with inspiration point. It’s great and all don’t get me wrong, there are rolling meadows as far as the eye can see, and even cows – but there’s not really any room to take it in. You…
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YNP: On top of Yosemite Falls
This is what Yosemite looks like at the top. My little GPS thingy said we were at 6666.something feet +/-26 feet. If you look carefully in the background of this picture you can see evidence that we weren’t the only people to make it to the top. In fact there were a variety of people…
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YNP: Yosemite Falls
The lower falls here are same ones that were in the previous picture, the upper falls you can see above are greatly affected by the wind. We hiked to the top of this mountain on Saturday. It’s more than 2000 vertical feet acheived over 3.6 miles. You can do the math if you want; what…
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YNP: Lower Yosemite Falls
Sorry about that last post, i was trying to run out the door. We spent the past weekend at Yosemite. It’s great having a place like this less than 3 hours away… Say what you want about San Francisco, (oh wait, that’s me saying those things) but Yosemite rules big time I’ve got a bunch…
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Along the Embarcadero: The Ferry Building
The Ferry Building is pretty much right across the street from where i work. Since i spend more of my waking time at work you could say that I spend most of my time looking at the ferry building, which is not necessarily a bad thing (The ferry building part) I was trying to capture…