This is a small detail of a wooden boat that is being worked on. After walking around the Saling Club, I can really understand why people say boats are so much work!

Today, Aphra and I went to the Berkeley Sailing club to take abstract shots of the ship hulls that are being worked on in drydock (?). We were inspired after hearing about the recent photo expedition led by Klaus Lange. For me, I felt a little visually overloaded but it is fun to keep trying my hands at abstract images.

This week has been a long trying week. First, I have been feeling bad and my laptop was dying. Fortunately, I feel better today and Chip resurrected the laptop. Looks like I picked up a nasty trojan horse that slipped past my anti-virus software.

After dinner on Friday evening, I noticed the beautiful light and dramatic skies. I convinced Chip that it would not rain on us. So we stopped and strolled along Coyote Creek trail. Sure enough, a gorgeous complete rainbow appeared right when it started raining on us.

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I have not felt up to going out recently so I dug into the archives from earlier this week. This is the not-so-successful adventure into Maguire Creek but it is the best that I have at the moment. Maybe, tomorrow my energy and photo-mojo will return.

Yesterday, I went out to Sunol along Welch Creek Road. Welch Creek road is a one-lane very winding road along the edge of a canyon. There is a creek running along the road but 20-30 below the level of the road. I went down the edge of the embankment and had a heck of a time getting back up. It seems that someone did not make the turn and crashed their car at the top of this waterfall. It may be a little hard to see in infrared. The rectangle of the windshield’s frame can be seen at the top of the waterfall toward the right-hand side. Below the windshield is the crushed car body. From the look of it, the car has been there quite a while. I could see that the posts along the shoulder had been torn out. Hopefully, no one was seriously injured.

I went out today to Sunol and ended up slipping and sliding down a very steep hill. I took a lot of infrared shots but nothing good. So, I raided the archives for the bottle shot.

Another taken out in Sunol along Alameda creek. Turns out that I was only able to get out once tihs entire week! Hopefully next week will be more productive.

Today for the first time in several weeks, I went out to take infrared landscapes. Funny but somehow I was not inspired even though I visited Sunol (my favorite landscape location). Maybe, all this color work for my class has switched my preferences. This is the best of the infrared shots for the day.

Another shot taken for my photo class assignment of surreal. Found at the de Young Museum in the native American section.

I do not know why some of the orchids are caged and some not. This was an experiment with a mid-range telephoto lens and shallow depth of field.