Comments

You can leave comments to any post... click on "comment" at the end of the post and make your comments in the box... in the "comment as" drop-down menu select "name/url"or select "anonymous" to not leave a name........ type your name in the "name" box that comes up... then click on continue....  ......then click "preview" to see your comment and  "post" to post it.........

Comments are good ... if you see something that is good, crummy, boring, interesting, badly done or whatever ....it is good for me to know... I like comments .... Thanks,    Mark

Fall

got gold?

Assay Office,  Plumas Eureka State Park

 

Annadel

 

Annadel State Park

Up To Spring Lake

Took a walk up to the lake this morning .... HOT... It will be over 100 today easy.... a few scenes from the walk......

 

there is currently an algae bloom in the lake ... it is fairly common this time of year... Warning signs are up around the lake...

  

not to many people today..... too hot ...

West Sonoma County

Oaks

Spring Lake........

click on to make big...

desert

Some shots from just outside of Palm Springs...

(click on for bigger)        

Hat Creek

by the cover #1

This will be a regular feature.... books I have read recently and recommend..... you get the cover only...

dog days

In baseball they call them the dog days ...... August ... they've been playing ball just about every day for five months and they are getting a bit run down, injuries are piling up, days are hot, humidity high and well, they're only making about a million a year (and those guys are the substitute players)........ did I say they were playing ball ?..... things are really tough....

Personally, I've always liked August.......

a few flowers...

 some random flower images from the last few years.....

click on pic to make big

Street Photography

I don't know.... I just find it hard to point a camera in some strangers face on the street and take a picture .... it doesn't seem like a very nice thing to do...... but that's what people do when they practice street photography and a lot of the people who do this are not particularly nice people..... There's a lot of this genre of photography out there ..... check it out here and here.

I like taking pictures in the city, but I guess I like photos of buildings and more general street scenes then those where people are the main subjects.... it kind of feels like you're violating their space ... though it's legal to take these pictures, even when someone objects.

These were taken in my home town and are pretty tame by some standards..... no one was offended (I hope)..........

Owen Garden

Owen Gardens - Eugene, Oregon

click on image to make bigger

RFO

I've been volunteering up at Robert Ferguson Observatory in Sugarloaf Ridge State Park for about 11 years now... its a great place - a real asset to the community - the volunteers really care about what they do and thats what keeps me coming back.......... I will do a lot of posts about RFO in the future and I will try to get some deep sky pictures from the East Wing from time to time.

click here for up to date info...... here's a few images

b&w

I don't do much black and white printing.... almost none at all ... but once in a while I see a photo that might work.... this was one...click on the photo for a larger view.... Annadel State Park

fishin'

Packard Lake, Plumas County ....... taken 9/08

stop action

Here are a couple of shots taken with very fast shutter speed at the coast.......

Giants in it ??

It's been a while but it appears the Giants are in the hunt for a playoff spot this year..... these are from opening day in April at AA&T Park.........

down the path.....

This blog will be, for the most part, about photos. My photos and maybe other folks, on occasion. The hard part is to make sure they are interesting. To the extent that they are interesting, so much the better...

I will try to explain how, when, and why I took them but I am not really much of a writer... It's mostly about the image and I will let them stand, or fall, on their own....

Let me know what you think... You can comment on any post or picture...I will try my best to keep things interesting...

A lot of what I do is landscapes. But I like to shoot sporting events, city scenes, flowers, people and some just plain wierd stuff...

This shot was taken at a favorite target area, Santa Rosa's Spring Lake Park.....Come back once in a while and I'll try not to lead you down the path....

Summer Day