streaming sunlight -- China Camp

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How disappointing… Today I definitely chose the wrong morning to sleep in. When I finally joined the conscious-world at 6am, it was just in time to see a pleasing set of yellow clouds that I would be missing out on. Fortunately, I was able to snap this morning scene [above] at China Camp on Thursday.


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morning clouds -- at Big Rock, Lucas Valley

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Well, _______________________ the ______ for _______________, ____ ____________________ morning light _________ ________ ________________________. ______________________ and _______________ with __________.   But ____ ____________ ______________.


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Lagunitas Creek -- as life flows by

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up in the air -- it's a bird

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Turkey-Hawk soaring on currents of air above lake at Nicasio, west Marin.



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Blue Heron and a Killdeer looking for lunch at Duxbury Reef, near Bolinas. Not a new image--taken March 2010.


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a new day -- and yet another opportunity

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It starts with only a promise, but it ends up illuminating a completely new day… An opportunity to take a another stab at everything I didn't accomplish yesterday.


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subtle clouds -- on one of those subtle days

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My prayers for big and dramatic cumulous clouds have gone unanswered...



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our perhaps, just perhaps, the answer was NO.


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atmospheric games -- at Big Rock

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morning light -- at China Camp

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Sometimes dramatic and sometimes subtle. Sometimes as bright as a welder's arc. I've been standing by, patiently, for bright colors! Will keep you posted.



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Rat Island in the morning. This image is not new--snapped during June 2011.


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out of the way places -- quieter than normal spaces

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2010 census data adds up to a whopping 7,002,425 for the 9 Bay Area counties including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano and Sonoma. Roughly, a 50 mile diameter area.

Yet within this incredibly overpopulated zone, it is still possible to find quiet places, mostly at odd hours, where traces of most humanity all but vanish.


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perhaps we are all just visitors here

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image smackdown -- go shoot it again, Don

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Well, I've wrestled with this image to the point where I've decided I just need to return and shoot it again. No amount of trickery is going to restore the sharpness that escaped capture in the original. Yes, sniff and weep, I will return another day and try again.


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breaking the rule of the Histogram

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Generally speaking, photographs are supposed to have a full range of tones; from dark and black to light and white, but on occasion atmospherics prevail. If you look carefully you might detect a very foggy Mt. Tamalpais.



The Histogram is a graphical representation of the brightness values in a photograph. Adjustments are made by sliding the small triangles at the base. Normally I would utilize the blank space on the right side of this Histogram--that would cheer-up the tonal range substantially, but the result wouldn't have been true to the subject.

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moon and sun -- Hawk Hill and Nicasio

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These two images in today's post don't exactly work well together,
but nevertheless, here--have a thin moon over Hawk Hill.



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The sun burning its way through low clouds on Thursday over Nicasio.


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third rock from the sun

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