Just a few shots along the way…
I went to photograph the future home of the new Los Medanos College Brentwood Center. For the past ten years it’s been housed in an old Lucky’s shopping center and even with their upgrades it still felt like the old grocery store that I used to shop as a kid. Their new home not far from the John Marsh House is going to really feel special. As you can see below there isn’t much yet but I had to post this because it sure is a pretty time of year!
I love my fancy daffodil bulbs. I just never know which ones are which until they open up. I love those little garden surprises!
When they are prancing proudly and sounding… well… GRRRR
Nice to get a little recognition of one of my family photos. I won a photo contest today for merchandise from Windy City Parrot with this photo. Now Max (the bird) will get a bunch of new toys to play with as payment for being such a good model 🙂
It was a REALLY cold morning this morning but the hills are so green and everything is wet after the recent storm. I knew of some rocks at Los Vaqueros Reservoir that I saw in the Summer that I thought might be pretty in the Spring. Then I find out LV will be closed until August in this part due to construction starting March 7th. So I hot-footed it out on my mountain bike, actually frozen footed it out to get this picture. Unfortunately the clouds were very thick this morning and the wind was bitterly strong and cold. I had a fraction of a second to get this shot as the sun traveled through a hole in the clouds and in an instance it was swallowed up again. Here is my one shot. I hope you like it too.
This is my favorite view coming out of the park. It looks good no matter what time of you photograph it!
Well I got my chance to go back to Yosemite this weekend and try my luck at getting the light on Horsetail falls. It was GORGEOUS light last week but I was in the wrong spot to get the right angle to light up the falls. This time I would say it was right and the weather called for the clouds to clear by the evening since we were between storms. Unfortunately at the last minute in came the clouds and blocked the light. We got there around 2:30 thinking that would be plenty of time to find a location. It was presidents day weekend and it seemed the rest of the globe had that day off as well! We circled the valley floor three times to find a parking space. Finally we found an angle east of the El Capitan picnic area that gave us a narrow view through the trees. It looked perfect to stand and wait. We set up our tripods and pretty soon I looked behind me and others thought it looked like a good idea as well. It kinda reminded me of standing in line for a concert and we all tried to get the same angle.
We waited until the sun went down but it was obvious after a bit it wasn’t going to happen so I took the shot anyway. See the photo to the right of the original. Like I said sometimes you just have to fake it! You know where I will be in 2012! Maybe next year I won’t have to fake it 🙂
