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Pacific Coast Highway Day #2 - 5/10/2006 : Taken on the Pacific Coast Highway between Monterrey and Morro Bay, California.

After leaving Monterrey at whatever ungodly hour that Dr. Gray, III gets up at these days, we continued south. With a strong desire to reach Los Angeles before dark, our stops were limited to spur-of-the-moment roadside pullovers.

All shots 3-image HDR composites.

Pacific Coast Highway Day #2 - 5/10/2006

Taken on the Pacific Coast Highway between Monterrey and Morro Bay, Ca ...

Updated: Jul 08, 2006 2:14pm PST

Pacific Coast Highway Day #1 - 5/9/2006 : Taken on the Pacific Coast Highway between Half Moon Bay and Monterrey, California.

This was the start of an ambitious trek down Highway 1 from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Due to a somewhat late start, my seasoned navigator, Dr. James W. Gray III, and I got on Hwy 1 at Half Moon Bay just after 5PM. We made it as far as Monterrey that evening.

All shots save the last one are 3-shot HDR composites.

Pacific Coast Highway Day #1 - 5/9/2006

Taken on the Pacific Coast Highway between Half Moon Bay and Monterrey ...

Updated: Jul 02, 2006 5:07pm PST

Angel Island, San Francisco : Angel Island, San Francisco, CA

Angel Island, San Francisco

Angel Island, San Francisco, CA

Updated: Jun 05, 2006 10:32pm PST

Slacker Hill - 3/11/2006 : Taken on top of Slacker Hill in Marin county, California.

Slacker Hill is first big hill you see on the left once you arrive in Marin on the Golden Gate bridge. People typically snap photos of the bridge from a viewing point that used to be a costal battery about halfway up the hill. If you drive past this and take a couple of turns, you will find a fire road that eventually leads up to the top of the hill.

I had read from a Marin hiking website that it offered "360 degrees of breathtaking views". Well, not really, but it's the best place I've found so far to get pictures of both the bridge and the city. It's also quite a steep hike up there too.

All pictures are HDR using in-camera 3-shot bracketing. Due to the really high winds up here I ended up throwing out the +2 stop picture at least half the time due to camera shake, even on the tripod. I also learned that there is no reason whatsoever to use a polarizing filter if you're going to do HDR. all you're doing is removing some usually interesting reflections on the water and washing out the colors.

Slacker Hill - 3/11/2006

Taken on top of Slacker Hill in Marin county, California. Slacker H ...

Updated: May 25, 2006 8:46pm PST

Hill 88 - 3/11/2006 : Taken at Hill 88, above Fort Cronkhite in Marin county, California.

This trip ended up being a pretty solid hike up from Rodeo beach. There is an abandoned Nike missile radar battery on the top of Hill 80. The trail leading up there goes past a number of costal batteries and fortifications, many constructed during the second world war in preparation for the Japanese invasion of the California coast. The clouds were amazing in the late afternoon this day. All shots are HDRs from in-camera brackets.

Hill 88 - 3/11/2006

Taken at Hill 88, above Fort Cronkhite in Marin county, California. ...

Updated: May 25, 2006 1:55pm PST

Laguna, CA : "I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea- shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
-Isaac Newton (1642-1727)

"I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to ...

Updated: May 17, 2006 2:38am PST

Desolation Wilderness May 2006 : Lake Tahoe is mid May is my new favorite place :) We took a hike up into Desolation Wilderness, to the southwest of Lake Tahoe, and the waterfalls were magnificent. What a great hike!

Desolation Wilderness May 2006

Lake Tahoe is mid May is my new favorite place :) We took a hike up i ...

Updated: May 16, 2006 2:03pm PST

Dana Point, CA : Mar 25, 2006
Dana Point Harbor is truly one of the most spectacular man-made harbors in the world...named after Richard Henry Dana, who, in 1835 at the age of 19, sailed around Cape Horn aboard the trading brig "Pilgrim" in search of cowhides for Boston shoe factories. Upon his return, he wrote the book "Two Years Before The Mast".

Mar 25, 2006 Dana Point Harbor is truly one of the most spectacular m ...

Updated: May 07, 2006 9:32pm PST

Montara SB - April 06 : An April trip to the beach was surprisingly sunny!

Montara SB - April 06

An April trip to the beach was surprisingly sunny!

Updated: May 02, 2006 4:43pm PST

Filoli : Filoli, Woodside, CA

Filoli, Woodside, CA

Updated: Apr 16, 2006 8:03pm PST

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