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Fall: Brief Light and Long Shadows
The autumn afternoon vanishes in long shadows quickly and without a sound. I emerge from my office and ask no one in particular, “When did it get dark?” The clock on the mantle ticks relentlessly and without remorse. Taking the … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumn, California, D7000, Fall, Image, Nikon, Photography, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, Shadow, Shadows
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eerie
Dim lights in the distance. It’s still a long walk along the sand within feet of the boiling surf and the rocky cliffs, dark and ominous, above. Does it mean an end to the journey or is it just the … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Eerie, Image, images, Photography, Postaday, San Mateo County, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Horizon
We held hands for a moment in time, but we’ll never know if we had a chance. I thought us worthy but, in time, we learned we each swayed to a different rhythm in life’s dance. I walked away without … Continue reading
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Tagged D7000, Horizon, Image, images, Nikon, Photography, Postaday, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Without Conviction
Securities brokers like to say price movement without much sales volume is a market moving “without conviction.” We seem to be in that mode in the Bay Area home market right now. Sales volume dropped in September and prices are … Continue reading
Where Were You?
5:04 p.m., 10/17/1989, 24 years ago today, where were you? I was at my desk writing an appraisal report. It was a warm October day. Door was closed and all my windows were open. I was sitting in a sixth-floor … Continue reading
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Tagged earthquake, Image, images, Loma Prieta Earthquake, Ocean Beach, Photography, San Andreas Fault, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area
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Little Egret
Some days architecture does not stir my creative spirit. I look to landscapes and nature to sharpen my camera’s eye. Living in the SF Bay Area you do not have to travel too far to find enticing vistas or wildlife … Continue reading
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Tagged Burlingame, California, D7000, Egret, Image, images, Little Egret, Nikon, San Francisco Bay, San Francisco Bay Area, Tamron
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Saturated: A Weekly Photo Challenge
On a slow business week: government shutdown, no employment statistics, stock market sliding; I thought an image of the recently departed summer might help. I miss summer and it’s only been gone a week or so. We didn’t really have … Continue reading
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Tagged Image, images, Landscape, Photography, Postaday, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, saturated, The Castro
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Wow, Big Drop in Unemployment Rate… But, Oh, Wait…
You really have to start questioning unemployment numbers from the State and the Feds. It’s a weird time. The unemployment rate for the nine-county Bay Area region dropped to 6.6% in August 2013 from 7% in July (See SF Bay … Continue reading
Bloom Off the Rose???
The housing market is cyclical. It is not consistent from area to area. Prices go up and sometimes, as we know all too well, they go down. The Bay Area median home price (all homes and condos) dropped in August … Continue reading
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