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This is the Sundial Bridge in Redding, California. This glass floored bridge doesn't make a shadow that would spook the migrating salmon... They probably don't enjoy watching the feet of passers by- the dogs were particularly fun since they're closer to the deck and you can get more of sense of them than long-legged people...
Our guide asked if we men were "gentlemen" before opening this door.
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Oakland Aviation Museum www.oaklandaviationmuseum.org/hours-and-location
N-wards view from Soler Street bridge to the shack crowded banks of the Estero de San Lazaro channel of the Pasig river-Broadview Towers on background. Binondo Chinatown District-Manila-Philippines
Its about the center of the image... to the left of the big rectangular hanger with its back to the Bay. The shadow of the 777 is in front of the hanger. Taken from my seat just aft of the wing, on a Southwest 737-300.
Here's a picture of the Emirates 777 waiting in line to take off:
Vultures roost in trees and on humanmade structures, such as buildings and towers. Many problems associated with vultures can be successfully resolved by dispersing the birds from their roosts. USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services’ research has shown that the proper installation of a vulture effigy almost always causes abandonment of the roost within 3 to 5 days. The effigy is either a taxidermic mount of a dead vulture or a commercially available artificial likeness.
USDA photo by Wildlife Service
This is the self-timer photo at the top of the tower on the de Young museum that really DID work, in my opinion.
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Sadly, I do not know engine sizes or years of manufacture. Is this a cool place to walk past or what??
11-8-24: Not accepted by CLASSIC SPORTS CAR.
www.navysite.de/ships/lpd25.htm
USS SOMERSET is named in honor of the passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93. Their actions prevented terrorist hijackers from reaching their presumed destination of the White House only to have the hijacked jet crash near Shanksville in Somerset County, Pa., Sept. 11, 2001. Like her sister ships, USS NEW YORK (LPD 21) and ARLINGTON (LPD 24), USS SOMERSET is named in commemoration of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Over the weeks following the Flight 93 crash, recovery personnel retrieved more than 95 percent of the airplane's wreckage from the crash site. An American flag was hoisted on the top of a power shovel or "dragline" on a hill dominating the area. The dragline had been used in coal stripping at one time, and the equipment with the flag became a symbol of the effort.
In the summer of 2008, the dragline's 22 ton steel bucket was melted down and cast into LPD 25's bow stem.
She was contracted for in 2007, built by Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Avondale Division of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her keel was laid down on December 11, 2009, and she was launched on April 14, 2012."
Here's a picture of the Emirates 777 waiting in line to take off:
Taken from my seat just aft of the wing, on a Southwest 737-300.
2013.07.27
New Era / cap @ Double Park, HK.
Comme des Garcons Homme / checked shirt from HK.
Band of Outsiders / khaki shorts @ Lane Crawford, HK.
G-Shock / frogman watch from Tokyo.
Bless / leather bracelet @ Addition Adelaide, Harajuku, Tokyo.
Frapbois / red belt from Tokyo.
Porter / Wallet cord @ Kura Chika Yoshida, Harajuku, Tokyo.
New Balance / 1400 sneakers from Tokyo.
Fitting Human Made SS13 denim jacket @ I.T, HK today.
TOP Shirt : Carhartt Carver shirt - Nutria M
TOP Tee : Humanmade Tee XL
Bottom : Futuremadestudio FMTD L
Bottom : Salomon XT6 UK10
2013.07.27
New Era / cap @ Double Park, HK.
Comme des Garcons Homme / checked shirt from HK.
Band of Outsiders / khaki shorts @ Lane Crawford, HK.
G-Shock / frogman watch from Tokyo.
Bless / leather bracelet @ Addition Adelaide, Harajuku, Tokyo.
Frapbois / red belt from Tokyo.
Porter / Wallet cord @ Kura Chika Yoshida, Harajuku, Tokyo.
New Balance / 1400 sneakers from Tokyo.
Fitting Human Made SS13 denim jacket @ I.T, HK today.
Here's a picture of the Emirates 777 waiting in line to take off:
Taken from my seat just aft of the wing, on a Southwest 737-300.
This is about half of what I had in mind... I haven't figured out the panorama-taking feature on the iPhone, yet... But there's everything from the Port of Oakland to Mount Tamalpias and San Rafael....
I leveled it, June 23, 2015, leaving a slight bulge in the middle at Treasure Island. If you really like the original, lower-on-the-left, I can set it to you or post it separately, but I prefer this, slightly.
I haven't decided if the slight curve in the surface of the Bay is a feature or a problem, it still looks kinda cool, bulging up in the middle, but maybe I should straighten-out the individual frames and redo the panorama...
2013.07.27
New Era / cap @ Double Park, HK.
Comme des Garcons Homme / checked shirt from HK.
Band of Outsiders / khaki shorts @ Lane Crawford, HK.
G-Shock / frogman watch from Tokyo.
Bless / leather bracelet @ Addition Adelaide, Harajuku, Tokyo.
Frapbois / red belt from Tokyo.
Porter / Wallet cord @ Kura Chika Yoshida, Harajuku, Tokyo.
New Balance / 1400 sneakers from Tokyo.
Fitting Human Made SS13 denim jacket @ I.T, HK today.
A great place to get lunch and watch the landing pattern to the north half of the complex, and the start of takeoffs too. Looking out the other side of a landing airliner, I've photographed the road and sidewalk one can stand on to get pictures of the airplanes as they fly directly over. I've also taken pictures of friends on the top level of the parking garage... many places to enjoy the airliners!
Sundial Bridge shows how much some imagination can accomplish. Its VERY convenient to be able to cross the river here, otherwise you have a long way to go to get around. But the shadow of a conventional bridge spooks the salmon and prevents a portion from getting further upstream to spawn. So the bridge has a glass treadway, allowing light through.
Its also single tower, with cable stays as you can see. As long as it was a single tower, that tower was arranged to function as the gnomon of a sundial - the shadow of the tower tells the time. Is that cool or what?
But wait, one MORE cool thing - the very long, steel, cables are perfect for some shade-tree physics: You can put your ear right on the cable, and then tap it with your finger, key fob, little plastic hammer. The sound of the impact goes up the wire to the tower and bounced back. It also changes pitch - it gets lower. The whole effect is not unlike the beam-of-something blasters in the first Star Wars movie... makes you wonder.
My theory on why the sound gets lower is that the vibration of the impact causes the steel cable to un-twist, just slightly, reducing the tension and lowering the pitch. This suggests some obvious experiments, none of which I've done yet...
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On the way to the top of the picture, you can just make out Valley Fair, now Westfield something or other... .Highway 280 crosses just before, and that's where San Carlos Street (?) changes to Stevens Creek Boulevard. So San Jose is right below here, Campbell in the middle distance, on the left, Cupertino far away, Mountain View off to the right, perhaps some of Saratoga off to the left...
Taken from an American Airlines MD-80 on descent into San Jose's Norman Mineta International Airport.
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Homage to Hamish Reid.
This Con-Agra storage facility is right across the water from us here at work, although I was on a walkabout when I took this picture. Hamish took a beautiful photo of it himself, which I portray in one of the art-show pix: www.flickr.com/photos/wbaiv/3868061677
His photo has a quite-different palate of colors, and you can see what an inspiration for good photography it is. He took a number of frames of the industrial landscape along the waterway dividing Alameda from Oakland, all worth a look.
I had to give it a try. What an object for landscape photography! What a sky!
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Motorola Razor, 1.3Mp, cropped.
Visitor parking semicircle and the matching building across the center round-about at our world headquarters, North First Street and 237, in San Jose. This view is 50% reduced, the original was 2500 X 17500 pixels, 5 frames wide with the Olympus. Not a great photo but a fun one to put together. There's a slightly unearthly beauty to our front entrance at dusk. It looks something like this.
Mmmmm. Winter twilight. From the left, you can see the (probably) western-most tower of the Bay Bridge, Coit Tower, boxy buildings in the Financial District, the Transamerica Pyramid, Ghirardelli Square and associated chocolate enterprises, in all its splendor, the bleachers for Aquatic Park, and the Maritime Museum that I've never arrived at the right time on the right day to see inside. Sure is a beautiful Art Deco building! And the two big apartment houses which curve slightly, so everyone's view, just barely, doesn't include the neighbors. Are the front wall to interior less than 90 degree angles? Likely, that's the expensive end of the business...
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Here we are in line for the departure of the 2001 Pacific Grove Rolling Concours. At least 117 miles from our home in Oakland, for our annual car-enthusiast weekend. Many red Corvettes. Jean and Abby and I are in our 1993 VW Corrado, behind a Cadillac convertible and ahead of some British sports cars.
When I lived in Monterey, 1962, 1963, Holman's was the big department store. I remember walking in through the garden department a story down in back, as well as in the front door. The next closest big store was 75 to 100 miles away, depending on whether you wanted Santa Clara county, San Mateo or San Frncisco....
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2013.07.27
New Era / cap @ Double Park, HK.
Comme des Garcons Homme / checked shirt from HK.
Band of Outsiders / khaki shorts @ Lane Crawford, HK.
G-Shock / frogman watch from Tokyo.
Bless / leather bracelet @ Addition Adelaide, Harajuku, Tokyo.
Frapbois / red belt from Tokyo.
Porter / Wallet cord @ Kura Chika Yoshida, Harajuku, Tokyo.
New Balance / 1400 sneakers from Tokyo.
Fitting Human Made SS13 denim jacket @ I.T, HK today.
You can see significant wisps and blobs of smoke between where I was on the Eastern shore and Angel Island, Mt Tam, etc, on the left. This is the wide angle view from the edge of the bay , Northwest of the toll booths at the East end of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge.
Beautiful day, blue water, autumn afternoon light up North. At a guess, the far right edge of this picture is Pt. Richmond, and the regular structures are oil tanks What a pretty place!