|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SF Love Parade 2008 getting down at san Francisco's Civic Center. This image is taken from 120 still images stitched with gigapan stitcher version 0.4.2735 photos shot with canon G9 mounted on the gigapan panoramic robot. Exposure was variable ( notice some exposure issues as a result ) but otherwise pretty good for such a large crowd of moving people. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Dahlia (family Asteraceae) grow well in the San Francisco area. The flowers come in many forms and range in size from 2 to 10 inches in diameter. They also come in many colors. The plant is named for Andreas Dahl, a Swedish botanist. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Does anyone see anything to study in this area? Oops! I see that I touched a "how stupid can you be" nerve...so I found the following: "long-term monitoring and ecological study of the Devereux Slough ecosystem. Devereux slough, located at the University managed Coal Oil Point Reserve (Sands Beach) is a seasonally flooded coastal wetland. During the past fifty years, expanding agricultural and urban development has significantly altered the slough system. Such alterations have caused an increase in sedimentation to the system, an increase in water temperature and a decrease in dissolved oxygen. To investigate the changes in slough parameters, this study focuses on invertebrate and fish species diversity and abundance, hydrological characteristics such as bathymetry, oxygen, salinity and temperature measurements and nutrient inputs." Even better: http://nrs.ucop.edu/Coal-Oil-Point.htm |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is inside the Sunol Towne Hall Event Center. This center is well used for many purposes, but not on the Tuesday afternoon before Thanksgiving. Live music, coffe, and good food may be had in the adjoing Jazz Cafe and deli. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88_Boadrum |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
A picture of some azaeleas and clover and some sourgrass on some serpentine rocks. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Looking down on the forest and the crowd. When you're there one of the nicest features is looking down through the aquarium to the people below (but a bit underexposed here). |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
This is the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. It is an amazing place - the architecture is just amazing. The view is also awesome ! I liked the place a lot - the walk around it is very nice. I envy the people who have houses just opposite the Palace of Fine Arts ! I wish I had a house there ! The houses there are amazing !
This is an HDR image composed of 11 photographs each of which are composed from 3 photos ! Thus, a total of 33 photos were used in the creation of this panorama |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Wide arroyo at Al Paraje near San Ignacio. This arroyo got a great deal of floodwaters from the impact of hurricaine Jimena. |