Monterey Peninsula
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These colorful invertebrate animals live along the California Coast and have tentacles that fluoresce, absorbing ultraviolet light and shining it back as visible light. This HDR shot uses 3 bracketed images and was taken at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Copyright: Ken Sweezey/Sweezey Pictures
Monterey
On the shores of Botany Bay
Bayside - southern Sydney
View looking north to the city
My Canon EOS 5D Mk IV with the Canon 16-35mm f 4/L lens
Processed in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoPad Pro by NCH software
What a nice man he is !!!..I was flying a Saudi Sheikh on our BBJ ( B737-700 )..to Monterey ...to my surprise, I ran into this very famous man in the airport lounge...he owned a couple of airplanes..and was curious as to who the private Boeing belonged to..! ...at that time he was the Mayor of Carmel
Monterey Cypress, Fog. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.
A gnarled Monterey Cypress tree tops a rocky promontory on a foggy morning at Point Lobos.
Finally, this should be the last in the four-photograph series of images that focus on this gnarled and weathered tree standing on top of a rocky prominence along the exposed north shore of Point Lobos. The tree is always impressive, but I was fortunate to catch it on a morning when persistent coastal fog was thinning and creating glowing light that was just slightly directional.
Of the four interpretations of this scene, this one fits with the earlier portrait-mode version as one of the two most conventional views. In both cases the tree is clearly the primary subject, more tightly framed in the portrait mode interpretation and including a bit more background in this landscape mode version. (The other two used wider formats and included additional elements of the larger scene — a clearer view of the white rocks and cormorants in one case, and some nearby trees in the other.)
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books, Amazon, and directly from G Dan Mitchell.
Savannah Georgia
Monterey Square was laid out in 1847. It was named such in commemoration for General Zachary Taylor’s capture of the Mexican city Monterrey in 1846 during the Mexican-American War.
Seated in the center of current day Monterey Square, however, is perhaps one of the most iconic sights in Savannah’s Historic District: a tall, imposing obelisk honoring the General Casimir Pulaski, an eighteenth century Polish immigrant who, at the urging of founding father Benjamin Franklin, fought in the Revolutionary War against the Redcoats. Pulaski would ultimately lose his life in the 1779 Siege of Savannah, but he was so adored by the locals that they wished to honor him in anyway they could.