Sunday, June 20, 2021

Mussel Rock Park, Summer Solstice 2021


I love this place--that I just found! It's almost as good as Big Sur, but 15 minutes from my door, just north of Mori Point in Pacifica.
I want to come back with my DSLR bc my phone (yes, these pics are just from my Google Pixel) isn't capturing the wide array of hues in the water. The light changes a lot here, right on the edge of the fog line, which makes for enchanting palettes.
I also want to come back with sound recorders. The ocean makes quite a sonic spectrum, with typical ocean wave white noise, and then deep infrasound rumblings from swells around and through a (keyhole) rock formation. 
It's so relaxing and so precarious at the same time. Few people, low sensory environment, the lull of the waves, but then unstable landscape, sweeping cliffs, the San Andreas.
Lots of paragliders, too, with colorful "wings."
Quite magical!

What's up with this new formatting of the Google blog, though?  It sucks! I had to go into the HTML to set padding so my words weren't crashing into the edges of the text box, and in the HTML I had to set the normal text background color--in like 16 places-- from a harsh white.  How time-wasting. Does anyone know how to fix that?  I don't see anything in settings.  Maybe it's a bug for just this day.  Weird.   Anyway, enjoy the pics!













Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Walking to Buy a Lightbulb at the Golden Hour                           San Francisco, March 31, 2021


It was 77-degrees, sunny, and still in San Francisco today, so I took a walk to enjoy a phone call with Steve, and then I figured I would continue on to Ace to buy a lightbulb. 

But on the way I got so distracted by the exquisite light itself!  Everything is blooming, everything looked so enchanting -- one of those days when SF was showing her best self.

These are from my new phone, a Google Pixel 4a.  Had I known what the world outside my door looked like today, I would have taken out my DSLR.  But at least this was a good opportunity to test.  Resolution can be a little fuzzy at a distance, tendency towards over-exposure, but -- it fits in my pocket!

As always, click on the photos to enlarge.

Oh, and I eventually made it to the hardware store as the sun started going down.  ;) 

Happy Spring!




plum ? blossoms



a new discovery in the Presidio, near ILM

I run in the Presidio every day, but apparently I have been missing a spot. 
Who knew there was a pond with a fountain there?



bottle brush plant?  
It LOOKS like a literal bottle brush, so I'm going to go with that.



close-up



pretty in pink



pretty in pink close-up
like beads



california poppies and compliments with vertical lines



photography is the art of painting with light
(best of the batch, imo)



hairy vines



bushes and bridge