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Rock features at Rocky Bay, Porirua. These rocks were displaced due to distrubance in the earth's crust by faulting and folding process.
Lana was a barista at a local now-deceased coffee shop. As she is a young gal (19 or 20, I forget) and I am an old guy she was hesitant to come over to my alley and let me shoot her.
This crisis of credibility is my own fault. I grew up watching the Stooges and Carlin, so my approach to daily life is loose, humorous and a bit sleazy. But banter is banter and work is work and work needs be approached in a much different manner.
See Lana's video - it's corrupted but such is life - for her take on how the shoot went.
I don't know how many photographers - or people in other hobbies and professions - have to deal with this, who are the victim of their own senses of humor. We may joke and act stupid or lighthearted, but there is a portion of us which wants to let the world know that we have a competent side and we should be acknowledge this.
A model may be beautiful or desirable but is not JUST beautiful or desirable just as a photographer may be goofy or completely whack, but is not just goofy or completely whack.
Hollister, California
In the San Francisco Bay area there are three major faults, from west to east the San Andreas, the Hayward, and the Calaveras; all are part of the San Andreas fault system. All of these are "right-lateral strike-slip faults," which means that the motion is predominantly horizontal, with the land on the west side of the fault moving north.
South of the Bay Area the Hayward and Calaveras merge into the San Andreas. Hollister is located just north of where this happens, right on top of the southern end of the Calaveras fault.
What makes Hollister particularly interesting is that from San Juan Bautista to just north of Parkfield the faults in the San Andreas system are not "stuck": instead of moving only during major earthquakes, they continuously "creep." As a result of this creep, Hollister is being slowly ripped in two, for the most part along a remarkably narrow zone running right through the middle of town.
The rate of creep is inconsistent, and has been measured at between 6 and 15mm per year at various times throughout the 20th century. Underground pipes, road paving, curbing, and foundations all show signs of being gradually shifted apart. Notice how the distortion always bends structures to the right- no matter from which side of the fault the photo was taken. Also notice that the motion is horizontal: the ground is remaining level as it moves. Together, these two observations define right-lateral strike-slip motion.
Porters Pass Fault next to SH73 in Canterbury, New Zealand. The fault is capable of a quake ranging from 7.0-7.5. Quake interval is around 2000-2500 years.
Nankoweap Mesa towers over Butte Fault. Fletcher's bluff is seen in lower right. The 50' pouroff is right where the Butte Fault intersects Fletcher's bluff.
Okay, so I like to call it "Jen's fault". This is an active fault that one of our graduate students (Jennifer) has done a bit of work on, about three miles south of Chadron, Nebraska. Here it is exposed along a road cut.
Mine head after mine head could be seen along the line of the Linglong fault. Here, we checked out some historical artisinal mining, between two major modern operations
This was earthquake country, a stretch of rural California countryside in what I think is the San Joaquin valley, headed toward Yosemite. Videos I've seen of fault country show portions of the San Andreas passing through places like this, though I know we'd already passed over the fault closer to San Francisco. Incidentally, this is located in Calaveras County, site of the famed Twain story.
I love California countryside, the farmland and fences and trees. There is a very weird way in which it almost remainds me of my pre-Chicago home.
Side note: Map viewers take note, my placement of this photo is somewhat specualtive. The road's right, but this might have been shot anywhere within 20 miles of my randomly chosen location.