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Winter Blues
No Seasonal Affective Disorder here… just bright blue skies after showers. And rain! We’ve had rain! Yay to no more drought! It’s been a few dry years here in California. It’s nice when the hazy California Sun gives way to … Continue reading
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Tagged California, D7000, Image, images, Landscape, Nikon, Northern California, Photography, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area
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Photo Challenge: Eye Spy
Eye am more of a landscape photographer. Ummmm sunset! Eye don’t seem to have the knack when it comes to drawing out the personality of a “subject” sitting in front of my camera. My son proves my point in the … Continue reading
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Tagged California, D7000, E500, eye, eye spy, eyes, grandkitty, graphics, Image, images, Nikon, Olympus, Photo Challenge, Photo Challenge: Eye Spy, Photography, portrait, son
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Hallowed Data
October has come and gone and the California Employment Development Department and CoreLogic have just updated data on employment in the San Francisco Bay Area and median housing prices, respectively. Look here for CA EDD October employment data. Total employment … Continue reading
Photo Challenge: Victory
Friday the 13th! I shoulda stayed in bed! I got up… I had two cups of coffee… I survived (most of the day)… I claim victory over paraskevidekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th). Back to Krista’s Photo Challenge: Victory… Sports … Continue reading
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Tagged athletics, California, challenge, D7000, graphics, Image, images, Nikon, ornate, Photography, Postaday, San Francisco Bay Area, sports, Weekly Photo Challenge, weekly photo challenge: victory
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Ornate
I’m an ornate guy stuck in a Mid-Century Classic world. Okay, so my neighborhood was built in the early 1960s so bland is the operative word. Luckily, there are a few throwbacks here in California so I do get to … Continue reading
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Exporting Jobs?
For the first time since last December the Bay Area has seen total employment take a slip. The labor force also shrank slightly for the second month in a row. The big hit was in Santa Clara County where 4,100 … Continue reading
Photo Challenge: (Extra)ordinary
Another Friday brings another challenge from Cheri Lucas Rowlands. This one is to find, “What’s mundane yet meaningful to you?” Something (Extra)ordinary. I enjoy landscape photography. It’s nice to find little things that appeal to my eye while on the … Continue reading
Photo Challenge: Happy Place
When you’re born under a water sign you tend to find your happy place near water. Or so I am told. I pretty much believe anything I read and if it’s on the internet it must be true! Right? Have … Continue reading
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Tagged #laketahoe, California, happy, Lake Tahoe, Photo Challenge, photo challenge: happy place, Postaday, Sierra Nevada
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Photo Challenge: Boundaries
Friday brings a challenge from Ben Huberman to look at “…limits, borders, and dividers of all types.” Some boundaries are self-imposed while others come from physical constraints or the edicts of others. Follows a sample of my visual limits! Have … Continue reading
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Tagged boundaries, California, D7000, edicts, graphics, Image, images, limits, Nikon, Photo Challenge: Boundaries, Photography, restrictions, San Francisco Bay Area, signs, sky’s the limit, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Throwback Thursday
Well, it’s a #TBT… A look at the world the way it was in the 1950s and before… Black and White. This relates to the actual story of a seven-year-old kid once asking me if I was alive when the … Continue reading
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Tagged Black & White, Black and White, California, Corona Heights, D7000, Landscape, Nikon, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Sutro Tower
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