Reflecting upon nature… part 15…

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It looks so natural that it takes you a minute to realize that something isn’t quite right. Hey, why isn’t the waterfall moving?

(Okay, I just leaped to that conclusion, since I made all these, but that is what I am hoping happened to at least some of you)… HA!

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Reflecting upon nature… part 14…

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Still water running… or not running… into moving water. It seems like a mystery, a puzzle, like something deep… no pun intended… maybe…

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Reflecting upon nature… part 13…

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Because it’s a sunset… over San Francisco… the final chapter… I mean, not literally… there will, no doubt, be more sunsets over San Francisco… and I hope that I will be there to take pictures of at least some of them…

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Yes, I know, that is a sunset, but it isn’t over San Francisco… but the city is there… over to the left…

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Just a little farther…

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I mean, sunset over San Francisco just sounds so much better than sunset somewhere to the right of and behind San Francisco, don’t you agree?

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I mean, the sun is going to do what it wants to.

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I guess I could use Photoshop to moved the sun…

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But that seems a little extreme.

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So I work with what I have.

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And that’s okay with me.

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Reflecting upon nature… part 12…

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Because it’s a sunset… over San Francisco… part 3… (Special ‘the buck stops here’ edition)…

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Yes, I imagine you might be confused by the title of this post… especially if you haven’t bothered to read the first two in this series…

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Fear not, gentle reader! a 3

Enjoy the colors, the majesty of yet another Bay Area sunset, and soon enough, all shall be made clear.

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Don’t worry, we shall not pass the buck, nor shall we buck the system.

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And now, it is high time I paid you that buck I owe you…a 6

For my foreign friends, a buck, apart from being a male deer, is also American slang for a one dollar bill. I know, a long way to go for a poor jest, indeed. But I spotted this fellow from my mom’s deck the other day. He was following closely that doe and her two young offspring.

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I believe that rutting season is upon us, and judging by this young fellow’s red-rimmed eyes and awkward gait, he is about to experience his first. Good luck, young buck!

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Obviously, the deer have nothing to do with the photos I took the other evening down by the bay… of which I have one more post to do. But I like to put 9 photos in each post when I can, and the two of the buck were just waiting to go somewhere.

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And I had a little fun with it, did I not?

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Reflecting upon nature… part 11…

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Because it’s a sunset… over San Francisco… part 2…

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I suppose words are superfluous in a post like this.

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But I like words…

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So I am going to throw some of them in here… just to space the photos apart… ha!

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I like to think I have a fairly good eye for photography.

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But I guess it isn’t for me to decide that.

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I do like the new digital cameras that let you take a ton of images and get rid of the bad ones. But I can’t bring myself to delete any of these… even though I have a few more posts worth.

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Look at that… the bay is violet. This photo is a lot like the one coming up, except that this one has a young couple on a picnic table in it…

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And that one has a dog in it. Same clouds, same colors, same Golden Gate Bridge… but a completely different picture.

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It just goes to show… something…

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Because it’s a sunset… over San Francisco… part 1…

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That is a nice picture of a sunset. Look at the seagull flying by. I know, there is no San Francisco in that picture. We are getting to that.

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See, There is San Francisco. But where is the sunset? Well, I took this photo a little before sunset. My, oh my, but you sure are impatient. That first photo was just a teaser.

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I went down to that dog park beside the bay… you know… like I do… to pet some dogs, because my dog is 500 miles away.

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Also, not only do I like sunsets, but this time  of the day seems like it might be the best for getting that one photo of a dog shaking water off itself, when the drops are all lit up like little diamonds. Last night I learned that short-haired dogs do not spray enough water droplets for this idea of mine to work with them.

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The setting sun is glinting off the city.

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Now we are getting some sunset action. The water looks really good in that shot.

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Oh yeah.

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That one is pretty nice.

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And don’t worry, I have more of these… HA!

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Reflecting upon nature… part 10…

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I just love these. They are easy to do. I can tell you how to do them. It’s free. And you can do them to any of your own photographs. But there is something about the way that the reflection moves while the rest of the photo stays still that is sort of magic.

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