Tomales Bay + fog bank

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photo by Donald Kinney

Ah yes, I do my banking at the Fog Bank...
And if fog was worth anything, I would be rich...


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Golden Gate Bridge in fog

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This is a fairly common sight, believe it or not...

Fog often seems to cling to the cables and structure, and of course, in the San Francisco Bay Area we have no shortage of fog.


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Dark Strokes -- Photoshop filter

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I was looking for something to jazz up this photo of my beloved Mount Tamalpais, and I applied the Dark Strokes filter to it, giving it this graphic rendering.


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beached boat

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If you ever pass through the tiny hamlet of Inverness (California), on your way to Point Reyes National Seashore, be sure to stop at the Country Store and walk out to the beached boat out back...   This is a popular spot for photographers...   See you there...


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blurred clouds -- it's Sky Watch Friday !

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Whoopie !   -   it's Sky Watch Friday !

It seems we haven't had a cloud in the sky for weeks around here, and I didn't know if I would have anything for today or not...   These drifted over yesterday...

For a bit more interest I gave these clouds the Smart-Blur treatment in Photoshop.


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at Pierce Point Dairy

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This is the calf shed at the historic Pierce Point Dairy, established in 1860 by Solomon Pierce, at Point Reyes National Seashore.

The main house is still occupied by a park ranger, but it's great fun spooking-around the tank house, school, woodshed, carpenter shop, blacksmith shop, butter and cheese dairy building, horse barn, slaughter house, hay barn, hog shed, and a woodshed.

The location is remote, and in the early days the roads were poor, so they found it more profitable to turn most of the milk into butter and cheese, sending it south to San Francisco by boat.

Modern sanitation laws finally shut the dairy down in 1945, and other dairy farms in the area have taken up the slack since then.


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Lagunitas Creek

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Well, there it is folks -- the Lagunitas Creek.

In Spanish, "Lagunitas" means "little lagoons", but in my language I just call it beautiful...


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"J"unior -- it's ABC Wednesday !

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Hope everybody is having a great "J" for ABC Wednesday !

Normally I use brand new photos for my postings, but I had to go back about a year to find something that might remotely qualify as a "J".

Junior, here, seemed to really be enjoying himself...


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groovy water

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I am as old-as-dirt (61 now) so I am fully qualified to use words like "groovy", "cool", and "far-out"...


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big splash

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I hadn't really looked at this photo, but it has less of the brown color-cast, and I think I like it better than the photo from yesterday.   It's probably a bit more dramatic, as well...

I shot this from a newly found perch on a cliff near the north end of Rodeo Beach, a mile or two northwest of the Golden Gate Bridge.   The wind was being driven up the cliff at a fierce rate -- any stronger and I may have been concerned about getting blown off...


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color or black-and-white ?

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I'd like to take a little survey today -- which do you prefer -- the first shot, with color;  or the second shot, in black-and-white.

The reason I'm asking is that a good buddy of mine -- a skilled and experienced Photoshopper -- told me that the first photo has a brownish tinge to the splash water, making it look kind of dirty.   He suggested that I change the brownish cast to more of a yellowish cast, or just turn the photo into a black-and-white, as in the second photo.   I kind of like the photo just the way it is, brown and all, but can you folks give me a second opinion?


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wet sand

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red sunrise

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I hope everybody is enjoying a fine Sky Watch Friday !

I shot this several weeks ago when we still had a lot of smoke in the air from the multitude of forest fires that were burning in California -- hence the redness of the shot...


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golden reflection

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I normally don't do much planning for my photos, but in this case I had been waiting for a low-tide very late in the afternoon -- I needed to get the sun more-or-less behind me, and to do that I needed to get out on some rocks that are normally inaccessible.

This photo is so abstract that it may be difficult to tell, but that's wet sand (at the southern end of Rodeo Beach) reflecting the color of the yellow cliffs nearby, plus the color of the sky overhead.


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