This is a short way down the trail in the opposite direction from yesterday’s infrared shot. As you can see, all the rain has everything very waterlogged!

This was taken during my last sunset during my brief visit to Big Sur. My plan was to be down on the sand in Pfeiffer Beach State park. After going down a windy one-lane road, I was stopped in my tracks before the parking by a large river flowing over the road. So after a very hairy time backing up a one-lane windy road with many parked cards, I headed toward Andrew Molera instead. After paying and entering the parking, I saw the sign that all trails to the coast were washed out by the Big Sur river. Instead, I wandered down a trail along the bluffs of the river until a came to a large pond from runoff blocking my way.

Another from the jellyfish exhibit from the Monterey Bary Aquarium.

This was taken during my recent visit to Big Sur. The river was raging. This is a small pool left after the high water receded.

Tonite, I went to the Berkeley Camera Club print review. I showed (4) images from the Hidden Bay Workshop. I almost did not bring this image, but the group thought it was the strongest. I will say that Aphra rotated 90 degrees CW and that greatly improves it reading. It is shown rotated here.

This is a ‘pretty’ shot from Benicia. I cannot remember what caused the pink background.

Today, Aphra and I went to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. I went for the surreal exhibit but ended being fascinated with the photographs from the 1906 earthquake. The photographs were amazing and extremely disturbing to someone who lives near the Hayward fault. There were amazingly detailed panorama photographs of the devastation taken from an array of cameras from a kite. These were taken by George Lawrence. See some here, but these web images are a pale representation because these exhibited prints were made from extremely HUGE contact negatives. The details was incredible and made all the destruction very real.

This one is in honor of our host, Tim Rice. He paints abstracts and this is my version of his style of abstracts.

Another from Crockett under the Carquinez Bridge. For this one, I am most pleased about seeing the image. I was thinking of my recent composition class and was looking for repetition.

This image was taken under the Carquinez Bridge. Again, I was skeptical of the location when we arrived. Now, this is where I shot my best images. I have been flip-flopping on whether to keep the razor wire along the top of the image.

Funny all day at the photo workshop, everyone was raving about the locations and how inspiring they were. I was thinking. Hmm….I am not sure that I see anything. Well, I get home and look at the results and see some that I really like. This is almost the same spot on a boxcar but I could not decide between them. So, I think they work as a diptych.