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I travelled to San Diego to stay with my parents while mom had knee surgery. On the way I stopped at a scenic overlook just south of San Onofre since I can never resist a scenic overlook if I have a camera with me:)
I usually do not post more than one photo but I am leaving for another business trip for two weeks, so this is my chance to present this lifer (I have heard them many times before but never photographed a decent picture). Seen on Labor day at Ulistac.
Pacific Baza and its 1001 faces. I find these birds quite comical in their many expressions from "whoops" to "regal" to "Ugh, again greens for dinner" ... It was huge fun to watch and I hope to see more of that species soon.
This was the first time for me seeing the Pacific Baza and of that day, that definitely was my favourite character to watch!
A Pacific Golden-Plover (Pluvialis fulva) on migration in Bhaktapur, Nepal. #championofmigration
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Pacific Loon Barrow Alaska
This area we had Long Tailed Ducks, Sabines Gulls, Arctic Tern, Brandt Geese, Red Throated and Pacific Loons, Red and Red Necked Phalaropes steady for hours.
At one point the Artic Tern landed on a few participants heads including mine as well as our lenses.
Here this Pacific Loon worked its way back and forth in beautiful 2-4 Am Light on calm waters performing wailing calls to its Mate nearby.
Somewhere between Christmas and my trip up to the Pacific Northwest in February, I made a couple of quick trips down to Corona Del Mar. Even though I've shot this location more than a few times, something keeps calling me down there. Maybe it's the fact that I feel that there is still more to shoot. That and the fact that from the time I pull out of my driveway I can be walking along that amazing coastline in 30 minutes on a good night.
One of the other reasons I keep heading back is that the conditions around this particular arch change constantly throughout the year depending on the tide and where the sun is. On this particular night, I made sure the tide was a bit higher to ensure that water would still be around this amazing stack and that there would still be some water in the tide pools further up the beach. I've got a similar shot that I took a year earlier but the color palate and water levels were completely different with this one.
Another reason? Even on nights when I get completely skunked (and believe me there have been plenty) I get to just sit and soak it in while I am waiting for the light. I listen to the waves...and the cries of the gulls...and everything else just melts away.
Main reason? There’s a Baja Fresh on Pacific Coast Highway on my way home. :)
Sadly, that's pretty much it for this location until next Winter. Even if we weren't dealing with a pandemic right now, May gray is due to roll in followed by June gloom meaning that my chances of getting some decent light down here just went from slim to none. In the mean time, I'm pretty much ready for this Covid thing to be over. As soon as I get the all clear from the governor, I'm going to be out of here like a shot.
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Sunset, Fort Ebey State Park - Island County, Washington.
The sunset sets with stormy skies across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Whidbey Island.
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Pacific Diver (Gavia pacifica), Barrow, Alaska www.flickr.com/photos/137494906@N04/49682404057/sizes/o/
I had a dream that I was on a misty pond and I heard the call of the loons...and I was there....
Thanks for a great trip Catherine, Carl, Joe and especially Matthew!!
Since I live in Abbotsford I figured I should go and check out the reported Pacific Loon seen in Hougen Park. I found it in about 30 seconds and then saw a Red-neck Grebe, Great Blue Heron, a Steller's Jay a Greater Yellowlegs and a Belted Kingfisher.
I have never seen the Pacific Loon except at a great distance through a borrow scope, so it was cool to see such a striking bird. It was also the first time since I moved to Abbotsford that I saw so many birder/photographers.
"Pacific Fury"... The Pacific Ocean showing off its power. This was a sunset shot from Marshall Beach in San Francisco this past summer. Enjoy!
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Recently we went to SFMOMA, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. If you go out on the balcony in the back you see The Pacific Bell Building, an Art Deco style building partly covered by another structure. I love this architecture.
I processed a balanced HDR photo from a RAW exposure, carefully adjusted the curves, and desaturated the image.
-- © Peter Thoeny, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, HDR, 1 RAW exposure, NEX-6, _DSC7477_hdr1bal1h
we had been out fishing and had just taken the fish scraps down to feed the birds. I just "cropped" this shot of a pacific gull hovering, waiting for the scraps.
Seeing how the CSX was a bust the next best thing was a mostly fresh AC6000 rebuild leading a freight out of Mo Valley first here at 338.
Larus pacificus
A Pacific Gull feasting on little crabs at low tide at Venus Bay, Victoria. The transformation from juvenile to adulthood is almost complete with a few scattered patches of brown remaining in amongst the white plumage.
This Union Pacific locomotive sits patiently in the tune up shed as darkness falls. Her mighty power is silenced for now and she posed so perfectly for us. What more could I ask for as I was heading home and thought I was finished shooting. I'm not sure why there is a red light on in the cab unless it is a special beauty light just for us. If that's not the case please don't tell.
Yes, it's a 6 shot HDR, all raw, In Lightroom. All of the lights were crazy bright and this tamed it down to get some attention on the big boy. Another approach would have been to shoot a single frame and let the highlights go into bright star bursts and that would be cool.
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Took this this morning in the small New Zealand town of St Andrews, which is in the south island of New Zealand over looking the Pacific Ocean
Pacific Golden Plover (Pluvialis dominica), Barrow, Alaska www.flickr.com/photos/137494906@N04/49210180863/sizes/o/