Category Archives: My travels

Things that can go horribly wrong when you take photos… part 1…

One thing that can go wrong is ‘camera shake’… especially when you are using a zoom lens in low light. This is why they invented the ‘tripod’. I have one. I forgot to bring it when I took these pictures … Continue reading →

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What? We are almost at the end of the exciting stories and pictures of your latest adventure to the Bay Area? Tell me it ain’t so, cousin Arthur!

Yes, little cousin Campbell, I am afraid that is absolutely true. Oh, I still have a few posts to do, but we are nearing the end of the journey. I sure had fun hanging out with you, little guy. And … Continue reading →

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We interrupt these pictures of sunsets to bring you… uh… pictures of a sunrise…

I am just, in my own clever way, reminding you that, on the way back South from my recent adventures in the Bay Area, I did get up at 3:30 in the morning, just to get you some pictures of … Continue reading →

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Geeze, Arthur, enough with the pictures of the sunset, for cryin’ out loud…

I know, I took a lot of photos that night I went up into the Berkeley hills to watch the sun set over San Francisco. The thing is… hey, thing, how’s it going?… that digital cameras let you take a … Continue reading →

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Meetin’ some mammals… part 10… Horsing around…

Horses are not always easy to meet in an ‘up close and personal’ sense. I mean, yeah, you can go to someplace where you can pay to meet horses, but I am talking about you average horse who isn’t  conditioned … Continue reading →

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Meetin’ some mammals… part 7…(Or): You otter behave yourself…

Yes, yet again I stopped, on my way down the California coast, after my adventures in the Bay Area and a brief stop to help out with my cousin’s kids in Santa Cruz, in Morro Bay, to see the sea … Continue reading →

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Meetin’ some mammals… part 6… (Or): It hurts my brain when I think…

Okay, the ‘huts my brain’ part of the title has nothing to do with this post, but it is a good caption for the first picture. I don’t have any more funny advice about meeting these particular mammals, since, by … Continue reading →

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Even more San Francisco sunset pictures… because Sunday is a slow day… and I have a lot of them…

That right there might be one of the most beautiful pictures I ever took. Look at that wobbly sun! I stayed up on the hill above Berkeley, just a few miles from my mom’s house, for almost three hours. I … Continue reading →

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It was one of those kinds of days in the Bay Area…

Okay, I admit it. I am rather proud of that picture. Look at the purple highlights on the water. You can’t fake that. And these photos are the other reason I always go down to Point Isabel when I am … Continue reading →

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Sunrise to sunset, you gotta love California…

Here is a little photo montage of pictures I took on my latest adventure. The sun setting over the Bay Area, and the sun rising on the coast over the Pacific Ocean on Highway One.

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