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This is another archive raiding shot. This is from my office looking down Market Street in San Francisco.
Just for Grins
More Maizy
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After this, I promise no more cute shots. This another shot of Maizy at Coyote Hills.
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Here I was inching down the hillside with all the loose rocks. Next thing, Maizy takes off like a rocket after a ground squirrel. She almost jerked me down the hill. Then after creeping along, she goes into the statue pose. I do not think she was after the tufts of grass.
Meet Maizy
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This is our new family member, Maizy Girl. We adopted her from the wonderful Ohlone Humane Society and her fairy godmother was Judy. Judy saw her as she was brought into the shelter and immediately took her home and nursed her to health. We were lucky enough to find Maizy over Christmas. She is about 18 months old and we strongly suspect a pure-bred Papillon. She is a bundle of energy and just learning to walk on her leash.
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This is from her walk this morning out at Coyote Hills park. On the way down the hill, she poked her nose into every ground squirrel hole. She thought that it was huge fun!
Way Back
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Given that I barely did any shooting over the holidays, I decided to do a little archive raiding. This image was one of my first images taken back in 2003. I had owned my digital SLR for about 6 weeks and was attending a weekend workshop up in Point Reyes with Chip. We got up insanely early for sunrise on Drakes Beach. This was the first time that I had used a tripod.
2006 Year in Photos
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I decided to create a slideshow of all the images that I posted to DorothyPhoto in 2006 on Flickr. Even though I say I am a photo a day blog, I ended up with 458 images. To see the slideshow, click here. Given the length of the slideshow, I suggest you set the time between images to something 1-2 seconds.
Merry Christmas
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
This is a stitched composite of about 12 images from my Krappy Kamera.
Krappy Kamera Fun
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I read about the keychain mini digital camera sold at Walgreens for $10 on The Online Photographer. So, I just had to get one. Chip and I stopped at Walgreens after I took the Palm Reader image from yesterday’s post. They only had one camera. Today, I filled its 16 MB of memory with 20 shots. This is the only usable one although I do have a lot of accidental self-portraits because I did not realize there is a really long shutter delay. I would press the shutter (or SNAP button based on the manual). I could not hear the beep and would look to see if the image counter on the front had moved down. Therefore getting a shot looking up my nose.
Leaf Abstract
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This is another assignment image for my color class. This assignment was to show repetition with variation and interesting color. In school, I was always prepared for my assignments and was not a person who like the last minute all night cramming. However for the color class, my assignment was not ready. So as I walked from the train to my car, I was scanning the sidewalk for images. This is part of that series. I have several more images from that walk that I intend to post.
Oh, I did not place the leaf. Its placement is what attracted me to the image. I am not good at making these little vignettes.
Hobart Building
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The smaller, older building is the Hobart building where I work. It is located in downtown San Francisco. After the devastating 1906 earthquake, the Hobart building was one of the first building rebuilt. Our lobby has a gold gilt ceiling with hanging chandelier. The paneling is marble with a large inset marble clock. We do not have air conditioning but do have 10 foot ceilings and windows that open.
I commute to work on the BART train which arrives underground directly underneath our building. We ride an escalator up to street level and this is the view. Yesterday, I noticed a couple looking slightly bewildered standing at the start of the escalator. I got on the escalator and they were right behind me. As we rode up, I always look up at the view. Behind me, I heard the wife say "Holy Toledo! …. Wow!" and the husband say "Crap!". I assumed they were awed by the sight and sound of Market street coming into view. Or…something totally unrelated.
Quail Feathers
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Tonite, I stopped and picked up some seed pods before returning to my car. I was drawn to their shape and color. On previous hikes, I found some California Quail feathers. Together, I made this scanned image but did not like the color. Plus, the black background felt too heavy so I inverted the scan and turned it to B&W with a sepia tint.
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