Cameras and Photographers

The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Any kind of camera or photos of photographers. Go through your photo archives and see what photos you have that fits the current week’s challenge, or better yet grab your camera and take a new photo! ENJOY and have FUN. I went deep into my archives on this one! These photos […]

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Mexico Monday, Week 21

A couple of memories really stand out for me about our trips to Mexico in the early 1970s. One is that a different color and type of fabric was chosen for the dresses worn by the women of the team each summer. One year the color was a bright reddish-orange; another year it was lime green. These were not bought […]

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Old man and the sea

In my post last Saturday titled House of Sand and Fog, I described how I lost a bunch of images I had shot on our Wednesday afternoon at the coast. Well, I wasn’t the only one dealing with serious disappointment that day. The Big Guy, fishing with a brand new heavy surf rod and coping with pain from a torn rotator […]

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WPC: Temporary

The Daily Post Weekly Photo Challenge for the week of November 8, 2017. This week, show us something you appreciate despite — or even because of — its short shelf life. My temporary home during my brief vacation in San Francisco in August this year was The Dakota. The previous year I stayed in a hotel near Fisherman’s Wharf; it […]

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Memory Monday, Week 47

Fort Ross Lodge, January 2003 — The Big Guy likes to visit the California coast during the winter because there are fewer people around and, as a general rule, the ocean tends to be calmer. That means it’s much easier (and more productive) to fish for perch and rockfish from the beach or from a rocky point. In the “old […]

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