Rainy Days

We have had 9 days straight of rain! I took this shot from my front yard between a break in the storm. I am getting cabin fever, but we really do need the rain here in California.

10 Favorite Photos 0f 2009

Here are my 10 favorite cityscape, seascapes
and landscapes photos of 2009

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Potrero Hill























Point Arena Lighthouse


























Golden Gate Bridge from Marin County
















Bowling Ball Beach










Golden Gate Fog

Emerald Bay

Mcway Falls
















I am counting these next two photos as one since they were taken
on the same day. Sunset & Twilight from Alamo Square.




















Foggy Sunset @ Rodeo Beach











Baybrige, downtown San Francisco & Goldengate bridge.

Obsidian Butterfly

New Years Eve 2009 Firedance Performance

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I attended a Fire Dance performance on New Years Eve in Old Sacramento. Obsidian Butterfly is a Fire Dance and Performing Arts group based out of Sacramento, that offers Fire, Glow, & Performance Art shows . This was my first time attending & photographing a fire dance performance. They put on a excellent show. See the entire gallery here

Golden Gate From Marin County

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Wide view capturing highway 101 leading into the Golden Gate Bridge

Dusk shot of the Golden Gate Bridge taken from the Marin county. Took a hike from Marin headlands to the other side of the Waldo tunnel with fellow photographers Bill Taylor, & Don Taylor;
to capture this unique view of the Golden Gate Bridge

Point Arena and the North coast

Just recently got back from a three day trip to Point Arena and the Mendocino coast. We had a little bit of everything, rain, fog wind and sunshine. We stayed at the Point Arena Lighthouse Point Arena Lodge We shot @ bowling ball beach during sunset with a minus tide. Under idea conditions you can achieve stunning results. We shot Point Cabrillo Lightstation morning, late after noon and dusk. One day we had to sit in the car for and hour or so before the rain stopped. Finally the skies cleared and the sun came out an hour and a half before sunset. We shot the Point Arena lighthouse. While we were staying at the lighthouse lodge we had access to shoot anytime.
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Bowling Ball Beach. The tide was still going out in this shot,not quite @ minis yet.You still can get very good results with some water surrounding the rocks.

This shot was taken with the setting sun and a minus tide!

Behind the scene shot of Photographers Bill Taylor, & Don Taylor amp; Sherman setting up for the shot.







Point Cabrillo Lightstation. Minutes earlier we were sitting in the car waiting for the rain to stop. Photography reminds me of fishing, you have to be patience.










This is a morning shot,We had to wait for the fog to clear before getting this shot.





Point Cabrillo Lightstation silhouette

Elk Grove Harvest Festival 2009

This was my second year participating in the Elk Grove Harvest Festival. I had my photography on display for promotion and also to sell. I really enjoy this festival, its a fun event . Lots of good food, music and family fun. I enjoy meeting the people that visited my booth. I want to thank my friend Zeb Woods for driving up all the way from the bay area to purchase three of my photos.

This panorama of the famous San Francisco Victorians created a lot of conversation, most of the younger generation associated it with the television show full house. Others talked about visits at Alamo Square Park. One couple reminisced about living in the neighborhood.

My Booth

Big Sur

McWay Falls, I nearly missed getting this shot. Well I left my home in Elk Grove around 1 p.m. My GPS told me I would get to Big Sur in aprox 3.5 hrs. I stopped along the way taking a few shots of the Bixby bridge and some seascapes/landscape shots. My intentions were to capture McWay Falls about an hour before sunset and maybe a couple of shots right at sunset. The last time I was in Big Sur at McWay falls was three years ago.Well I made it to the park entrance and asked the lady at the booth how far is the water fall. She said it's a twenty minute walk from the parking lot. So I parked and started walking to the falls. The sign said Pfeiffer Falls, about midway to the falls I said to myself this walk seems longer then what I remembered. (click to view larger image)
As I was walking I saw this young couple walking towards me and the young lady said, did you know that the falls are closed, I said no. There was a barricade about 100 feet from the falls but you could still see the falls. When I got to point where I could see the falls, I said to myself this is not the the falls I remembered. I turn back and started to get disappointed because the sun was going down fast. I went back to the parking lot and asked one of the workers at the lodged where is the waterfall that flows into the beach. He said, oh you mean McWay Falls. Its 10 miles south of here. Thats when I realized I was at Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park and not Juila Pfeiffer Burns State Park. I jumped in my truck and hurried down to Julia Pfeiffer Burns SP. When I got to the parking lot the sun was just setting. So I rushed down the 1/4 mile path to the water fall to this shot I got. The sun had already set, but I was able to get a long exposure.

I captured this shot from the observation area overlooking the beach.

Low wide view of Bixby Bridge. It was foggy at the bridge, but 1/4 mile south was sunny.