Category: California

Golden Sunset

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Friday Mystery Photos

About one year ago I had an idea about doing consistent weekly posts on the same day, with a goal to get my visitors to expect and look forward to those posts. The goal was to provide something different and interesting and bring people back to my blog. So on every Friday I decided to publish a photo with  undisclosed location and let readers to identify it. I usually post the answer and acknowledge everyone that knew the place on Saturday or Sunday. Yesterday’s post was #49, almost one year of “Friday Mystery Photos”!

I think a lot of folks had fun identifying places where they have been or saw on someone else’s photos, or just did a guess. One thing that I was expecting, completely did not materialize, is the number of people visit my blog on Fridays. About the same number of you guys stopped by here yesterday as any Friday in March, or as any Friday six or twelve months ago. So this whole idea about getting people addicted to every Friday Mystery Photo really didn’t work on a grand scale. I’m sure there are a few of you who comes here every Friday (thanks guys!), but it did not accumulate as I thought it would. I guess some smarty pants advertisement and marketing guru would have a perfect explanation for it.

I have no intensions to quit on with this mystery photo trend and I’ll do my best to keep it going and find something new for every Friday of the month and I hope you find it interesting to see some cool places and maybe actually know where it is.

And I especially like those Fridays when my wife asks me where I took it, as she pretty much knows every place I have been in the last few years.

Double Take

Today’s photo takes us back to the lovely San Francisco. I took this photo from a pier at the Maritime National Historic Park. The one that curves like a bow.

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San Francisco Financial District

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I took this photo handheld from the top of the Coit Tower. They were closing it in just a few minutes and I could not stay for a bit darker skies, but I would probably would not be able to take any good shots of it anyway, with no tripod it is hard to take night photos. The view to the other side is pretty cool as well, you can see the Fisherman Warf, the Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. If you happen to visit San Francisco then make sure to make a visit to the Coit Tower and have a round view of the entire city.

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Mustard Yellow

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Spring time is rich with fresh and intense colors. I took this photo last year near Sonoma valley, closer to Petaluma, just around this time, maybe a week earlier. It was the first time I saw yellow mustard, full fields of it. If you see it in person, the wind will usually move it, almost in waves motion, can’t see reproduce it in still photo.

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Friday Mystery Photo

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From moon light in DC to moon light somewhere else, place unknown, It is a full moon as well or very near to be full. Do you know this place?

Have a great weekend everyone!

Saturday update: I don’t think anyone attempted to identify this photo. Well, it is not easy one, but if you ever been to the Coit Tower in San Francisco and looked up in the sky you would probably recognize it. Tripods are not allowed inside the tower so I had to shoot it handheld. There are some nice views off San Francisco from it, pretty much you can  see in every directions though the glass windows. I wish they took the glass off those windows and put some metal bars, as that glass is all scratched and sometimes obstruct the clarity of the view. They still use probably its original elevator, very tiny, man operated.

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Bixby Bridge

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All right, one more this week, had to make it seven in the row. Three from the East coast, one in the middle and three from the West coast. I just processed a few photos I took last year while driving on HW1, all of the Bixby Bridge, from different angles and I’ll share them over time, not at once… that would be too quick… it took me one year to get to them to process after all, can’t just put it out in one post.

This is probably one of the most common views of the bridge and the reason to it is because parking lot is right above me. There is a little hike that takes you a bit down to see the bridge from this angle and pretty much everyone who stops at the bridge comes down this way and take their photos. You can also cross the street to the left, walk up a little dirt road and take photos of the bridge with the ocean in the background. I went there but didn’t see anyone else following me, and that photo is probably going to be next in my little Bixby Bridge photo series.

Big Sur is a beautiful place and I wish I had better access to it to take more shots like this during different times of the year and weather, not easy task while living on the East coast.

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