It’s still HOT in the Bay Area, but the fog is a rollin’ in… Three different focal length views from the same turnout of the low hanging fog rolling in towards the bay this afternoon.
Canon G11 sounding the fog horn.
All summer long there was nothing but fog in San Francisco (except for the odd day or two when the fog mercifully retreated out a short distance off shore). Fall arrives and the Bay Area is HOT! Beautifully warm in the city–blazing hot away from the water. This is what it looked like by the Golden Gate Bridge at about 3:30 this afternoon (nice day for sailing!):
BTW, these are straight out the camera with only the slightest bit of cropping and sharpening. The G11 loves light.
Canon G11 cooling off by the bay.
Sunday evening post. I’m not sure why I like this grainy, slightly soft shot of uilleann piper Cillian Vallely. But I do like it. Sometimes a photograph is simply about having captured the mood of the moment.
Canon G11 capturing the mood.
A few weeks ago I read in Ed Verosky’s email newsletter a commentary about 365 day photo projects. In it he said, “I’m here to tell you that you can let these things go. Simply express what you feel and shoot what you like, whenever the mood strikes.” OK.
Canon G11 taking the day off.
For months I’ve been admiring the cranes at the construction site around the new merge being built from Hwy 1 to Doyle Drive in the Presidio. I really wanted to get up close with the camera but I was told, “No hardhat, no safety vest, no entrance.” Guess I need to get a hardhat and vest and keep them in the car.
Canon G11 playing it safe.
A while back I posted a “green on red” photo, so here’s the reverse. Nopales in Petaluma on the first full day of Fall:
Canon G11 absorbing the color.
Beautiful day today so I drifted off my beaten track and wended my way down to the beach. I really like this shot I got of the corner of JFK Drive and the Great Highway. So simple–just an intersection in front of the beach at 3:33 PM on Wednesday, September 22.
Canon G11 keeping time.
During today’s commute home, I took a turn through the Presidio. I wound around a bit and found myself driving up a short, narrow road on the northwest side of the San Francisco National Cemetery. The road ended at a locked gate–perhaps an entrance for workers. No one was around so I parked and grabbed a few shots of these hillside graves:
Canon G11 in observance.
Looking for vivid color in natural settings in inland coastal California in September isn’t easy. Everything that isn’t cultivated is either brown or dark green. Today I took a detour off Hwy 101 at N. San Pedro Road in San Rafael and headed out towards China Camp State Park. These shots are different focal length views of the same wide swath of colorful wetlands at the northeast end of the San Francisco Bay (I cropped them for a more panoramic sense of the view):
Both shots were taken at ISO 100, aperture 8.0, shutter 1/250. Focal lengths: top shot, 30.5mm; bottom shot, 6.1mm. For perspective, the bare brown hill seen clearly in the top image is left of center in the bottom shot.
Canon G11 looking for color in late summer.
