Anything with a motor or engine
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
Wheels
My entry for Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge this week.
The Adventure Continues… Windmills
I was inspired to share this episode of California’s Gold after seeing Rebel Girl’s post Wind Power on the Photogate blog. I can only imagine what it must feel like to stand at the top of one of these massive machines! It’s hard for me to wrap my head around the scale of the rotors, even after seeing them from this […]
Repost: Calaveras Big Trees, 2009
I first posted about this particular trip to Calaveras Big Trees in two separate posts, in March and May 2009. I was going to simply repost the originals, but they were written back in my early days of blogging — when I took a look back I realized the images were much too small and I just wasn’t happy with […]
Rose red
Shot in June 2014 with a Kodak Z7590.
I’m just standing here, reflecting
It’s always a treat to spot a Great Blue Heron, and even better to get a decent picture. I spotted this one just upstream from the Lake Natoma Crossing in July 2014. According to my Peterson Field Guide to Birds, at 4 feet tall these graceful waders are the second largest long-legged bird in the West (after the Sandhill Crane).