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Sierra Northern Railway heads through a spot known as Conoway just east of Woodland. This train is bound for Sacramento where it will interchange with the Union Pacific.
On Super Bowl Sunday in Sedona I was trying to find the fastest way down Doe Mountain so that I could get back in time to see the kickoff. I decided that jumping was probably not the best option.
Gran Turismo Nürburgring, 2012. We had a lot of fun shooting this night. Picture is taken on a completely black parking lot.
Saw this sign and cracked up,..
So now the Department of Transportation/local Law Enforcement are using social media lingo now,..to convey messages to us..LOL!!
Whats next,..emojis on caution/warning signs?
I just found out what "BOGO" meant..haha...
I suppose YOLO here means You Only Live Once, but as a former resident of Yolo County, California, it seems ridiculous.
UPDATE: In looking this up, I found that it's a courier company. At least as best as I could determine from Google's Chinese translation.
I often lament the fact that I don't live close enough to the ocean. The ocean provides endless sunsets, dynamic wave action, and enough subjects to photograph forever. Here in the Central Valley of California, I have a difficult time finding close areas to shoot landscape photography. Granted, I haven't been at this very long, but it has been a little frustrating.
On this occasion, I could see that the clouds were getting good, so I went home, grabbed my camera, and headed for the Yolo Bypass. I've been meaning to explore that area for a long time. The Yolo Bypass is a flood protection area (for Sacramento) that doubles as a wetlands area for wildlife. It is currently not under water, so I drove my car right into it, parked, and hiked a bit to check it out.
The clouds that I was seeing earlier had disappeared by the time I got there and set up, but I could see that the sunset was going to be good. The wetlands are great for reflection, but the difficult part is finding something interesting to use in the foreground. Grasses and weeds are pretty much the only choice, so alas, grass it is!
This image turned out a little darker and oversaturated than I wanted -I can see that now after uploading to Flickr. Sometimes it looks great on my computer, then gets dark and colorific when compressed again by Flickr.
View a larger version of this photo here: www.flickr.com/photos/5tons/4194672020/sizes/o/
This is one single image, no HDR.
Canon 30D
Canon 17-40L @17mm
8 second exposure @F22
Lee soft ND grad .9 + .75 filters
ISO 100
Minffordd Cottage Hospital is a small isolation hospital built in the aftermath of the 1882 Bangor typhoid epidemic. There were a total of 42 fatalities, and source was eventually found to be bacteria transferred in water and milk from a local farm, situated above Bangor's water supply.
The hospital was finally abandoned in 2009, having functioned as a hospital for the mentally infirm in its final years.
These photographs, taken in April 2017, showcase the buildings as they stand today.
Inspiration for the framing of the shots came from the 1975 New Topographics exhibition.
Evening flowers at Yolo Bypass, Sacramento CA. They might be flowers or weeds but they're pretty either way.
From a recent promo shoot for YOLO
Nikon D610
Nikon 28-70mm F2.8 Lens 52mm
F7.1 @ 1/125 second exposure
ISO 100
2 x studio flash heads to camera left and right at 1/2 power fired through into white reflective umbrellas
2 x studio flash heads behind model - left and right at 1/4 power fired through snoots for rim lighting.
All triggered optically using on camera flash at 1/128 power
Series of storms brought dramatic fast changing clouds over Sacramento Valley. Hopefully we will have enough rain and water to accumulate what is important for the hot and dry summer time.
Fields all over Yolo County are being converted to orchards, mostly almonds. A lot of my favorite fields for sunflowers have already been switched over and the old oak trees that stood in them chopped down. But the patterns of the newly planted trees have been catching my eye.
It was quite muddy on the evening of this shot and the only sturdy place to set up my tripod was over the most rotten smelling sewer manhole I've ever smelled. It was mostly worth it