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Why, yes, I do even make jury duty look fun, don’t I?

As I mentioned in an earlier post, my wife and I had jury duty on the same day… technically, she forgot she had it, and rescheduled to the day I had it… but… still… There I am, at the new, … Continue reading

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Two completely unrelated stories from my life, done with alternating photos… because I have been busy… and it’s funny to do it this way…

That is a very drunk me. It was taken by my wife, at that Western-themed restaurant near Hollywood, when we drove up there the other day to see a comedy show. That is a very sober me, a selfie I … Continue reading

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Detours: A California adventure… part 18; A detour within a detour, a brush with future disaster, and a blackened landscape…

That is the sun beginning to set over the Pacific Ocean. I was on another detour… the last of this three-day, detour-strewn adventure from Northern California back to San Diego. I was firmly back in Southern California now. Traffic really … Continue reading

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A digital view of a San Francisco sunset…

The ’emboss’ filter… Not an improvement on the photo I took at Christmas time, but it does look cool. The ‘neon’ filter is interesting. I forget what that filter is called, but I like the way that only the Golden … Continue reading

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Can a San Francisco Bay Area sunset be improved upon with digital artistic filters???… part 2…

Still no… but the emboss filter did come out kind of cool… Here is the original photo I took the other night. Nothing I did digitally comes close to that level of beauty. That being said, if these were bigger, … Continue reading

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Can a San Francisco Bay Area sunset be improved upon with digital artistic filters???… part 1…

Obviously, the answer is a resounding no. But that doesn’t mean it wouldn’t be fun to try it with a few of the photos I took the other night. And we might get some good art out of this experiment. … Continue reading

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Because, really, who ever gets tired of Bay Area sunsets???

So yeah, my two daughters and I, along with a couple of my brothers and a nephew and niece, all went down to that dog park overlooking San Francisco Bay. If I look happy, it is because I was just … Continue reading

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Cows, cars, and Christmas…

Well, we are back at my mom’s house in the Bay Area. The Christmas madness is going to begin. There will be 16 or more people living here for the next few days, and more coming in and out. And … Continue reading

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Another San Diego sunset…

I will do the rest of these in the order I took them, but this one struck me as being the best lead in. It was just one of those jaw-dropping sunsets. The kind that a photograph never does justice … Continue reading

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A rose garden, a sunset, and a city by a bay… part 4…

I should have used that photo for a caption contest post: “Stella!” But I can see how you might be confused about how raccoons fit into this series of posts. I was confused too. The last thing I expected to … Continue reading

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