This is another from our walk tonite in Sunol. It was a blazing yellow tree but I liked it monochrome better. It looks a little like snow in the background.

Tonite, Chip and I went out for a quick visit to Sunol. We arrived about an hour before closing so we had limited options. The recent rains have started to bring out the grasses.

Anothr one taken during our recent visit to Golden Gate park. We were on an asphalt walkway when I noticed this stone stairway leading up the hillside. I assume that it is an older unused path.

After Chip and I found out that the Conservatory of Flowers was closed, we went for a little walk around the area. I saw these tree ferns and had to go investigate. These are the biggest tree ferns that I have ever seen and there is an entire grove in Golden Gate. Most of the shots are spoiled because there was so much wind blowing everything around.

Here is a shot looking back at the Conservatory of Flowers while walking back to our car. You can see that it was a wet and rainy day. We would have had a nice visit inside the greenhouses if it had not lost power.

Today, Chip and I went up to the city to visit the Conservatory of Flowers. The orchid show is on until the first of the year. The whole trip turned into a fiasco. It was raining heavily off and on. Chip had directions to the Botanical Gardens not the Conservatory of Flowers. It was a case of cannot get there from here. After crawling through traffic around the edge of the park because there are a tree down. We still could not find the Conservatory of Flowers. Finally, we parked the car and walked on the blocked off roads and found it. However, they were closed because the power was out. I took this shot peering from the outside in. The windows were fogged causing the fuzziness.

Today, I planned on visiting Sunol for some new photos. I got a late start and realized I would get to the park with only about 20 minutes until closing. Plus, it was raining and nasty all day. I know that bad weather makes good photographers but I passed today. Here is an infrared shot taken last month at the Berkeley Botanical Gardens.

This is another shot from my archive raid. This started as a fisheye shot bracketed by 4 stops and merged into an HDR. I did not like the resulting color so it became a B&W. Next, I gave it a heavy crop on stairs to remove some clutter. I like how the stone lantern is circled in light but the shot was not read well. I did a flip horizontal and voila a much better entry into the photo.

Another shot of the Zulu Daisies from my visit last month to the Berkeley Botanical Gardens. Hopefully, I will go out shooting soon and can stop raiding my archives.

This is the Bay Bridge as seen from Treasure Island. At the time, I thought that the sunset was bland. This was taken during twilight and the long exposure makes the colors pop.