My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week: Lines can either be straight or crooked. Angles and lines can be connected together which will give us angles. Sometimes you might just find a lot of angles. Top of the pyramid, San Francisco Golden 1 Center, Sacramento: Bastion stairs, Sutter’s Fort
The Daily Press Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of September 27, 2017. Use a window to frame your shot. Show us what you see out the window from the place where you usually blog, use a window to give structure to your photo, or make a window itself your subject.
The outside of the California State Capitol building is impressive, but the inside is pretty cool too. I was standing on the second floor beneath the rotunda when I took these pictures.
In January 1986 I was lucky enough to visit the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was an incredibly moving and humbling experience to me even though I had no names to search for. I grew up seeing coverage of the Vietnam War on the TV news every evening, but I was young enough that the conflict never touched […]
Flowering maple, also known as Temple Bells (one of my favorites). I found these in Sacramento’s Capitol Park: A couple of local wildflowers — telegraph weed, AKA golden aster seen at Beals Point, Folsom Lake (above) and an unidentified plant growing alongside the American River (below): Wild chicory, growing near the Lake Natoma Crossing: These Lantana berries growing beside Leidesdorff […]
Maybe it’s partly to do with all the controversy over statues that’s been in the news lately, but I’ve been taking a closer look recently at the various sculptures I happen to pass along my way. Some are purely art, others serve as memorials and reminders of important people and events in our collective history. I was originally going to […]
I’m a little embarassed to admit that after living my entire life in the Sacramento area, I had never actually visited the state capitol building until today. I became inspired to go explore it on Tuesday after watching this episode of California’s Gold, and I have to say I was not disappointed. In fact, I’m already looking forward to my […]
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week. I want to see photographs unposed people, family, friends, pets, animals in the wild.