Been a while since I last posted.
Went on a couple of day trips over the past couple of months.
Although I did not like it as much as the Oakland Zoo,
I visited the San Francisco Zoo and got a few photos.
Nothing like a colorful Mandrill butt to liven up a photography outing.
I hung out at the Silver Back Gorilla exhibit for a while.
I was yawning trying to get the big guy to yawn for me and show some teeth.
Apparently, he got a little annoyed with my antics and gave me the finger.
But I persisted and finally got the toothy yawn I was looking for.
These next shots are from a day I spent shooting around San Francisco and Marin with an old friend.
A couple of weeks later, the same old friend and I took a day over on the peninsula and the coast.
We hit a lot of locations that day.
The first couple of shots were taken out along the San Mateo Bridge.
Next we hit some tide pools at a scenic spot overlooking the Pacific along Hwy. 1.
My polarizing filter really came in handy for these shots of the anemones under the water.
I like the way this one looks like it has a face.
The next few of shots are from the Water Temple at Crystal Springs.
Next we drove down to Santa Cruz to see the Monarch Butterflies at Natural Bridges Beach.
There were definitely more butterflies this year and I got a couple of great shots.
After that we drove back up Hwy. 1
There is this cool beach that we stumbled across the last time we were out this way.
First you have to cross these railroad tracks to get to the beach.
Down on the beach itself, there is a cool hole in the cliffs
that allows for a great view of the surf and the Pacific on the other side.
There are also some beautiful and colorful rock formations.
And some great shots from the top of the cliffs overlooking the beach.
Our last stop was just off Hwy. 1 so that we could get some after sunset shots of Pigeon Point Light House.
Just before we got to the location we were going to shoot from,
we ran across this tractor in a field just as the sun was about to set.
Then we finally hit our vantage point south of the light house.
The sun had been down for anywhere from around fifteen to forty-five minutes for these shots,
so I used a real slow shutter speed to gather what light was left.
On this shot, I took my mag light and lit the rocks in the surf from where I was standing up on the cliff.
These last few photos were taken out at the Hayward Shoreline.
On November thirteenth, it was a little breezy
so I didn't get the reflective qualities of the water that I would have liked,
but it was a beautiful sunset nonetheless.
And then on November fourteenth lo and behold it was as calm as could be
so I had pretty much a mirror to shoot with as far as the bay was concerned,
and boy did that add to the photos!
Here is a shot taken from pretty much the same spot as the previous photo.
and a couple more from that evening.
Well, until my next couple of photo adventures, so long.
