Sacramento
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JJ is one of my best friends from Weedy Field. He was always the most inquisitive blue jay around but he was also unusually quiet for a jay. When I started bringing peanuts, he’d murmur unlike anything I’d heard in a blue jay before. Now, I can call him from 200 yards away with a very weak whistle and he’ll land in the branch closest to my head and murmur. He’s not ready to be hand-fed yet but we will come well within reach and look at me with patient eyes and an eager beak. LOL! This shot came from the hand-held Nikon D80 again but the next shots should come from the camera being triggered remotely while on a tripod. With any good timing at all, I’ll catch him much closer with a wider angle 18 55mm lens and possibly looking at me with those surprising seemingly intelligent eyes. Oh, and yes, the peanuts are unsalted since I don’t need to be paying for health care for scrub jays or the brown tree squirrels who share them. ;-)
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A summer at the California state fair in Sacramento.
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This is an infra-red edit of the single most humorous thing I have ever seen in a graveyard. I was Sacramento’s (California) Old City Cemetery where countless historic figures are interred when I turned around and saw this sight. I could tell you it was a mother crow feeding a very large youngster; the young are easily as big as the parents while they are being fed outside of the nest. I could tell you that it was “bird season” for crows and this was some sort of bonding ritual between an old couple that had been together for years. Or I could tell you that it was about 10000 degrees in the graveyard when I took this shot and the birds were panting like crazy, especially the ones appropriately dressed (or “feathered”? “Downed”???) in black. But I’d rather say the thought that came to mind as soon as this painfully obvious shot was noticed: You REALLY know you’re dead when you look up to see two crows on a tombstone with your name on it, singing in harmony. That should confirm it nicely. THIS PIECE IS FEATURED IN: Amazing Graves. Thank you AG Group for remembering my little shot and honouring it once it returned! Ya’ll rock! And another round of THANK YOUS for the featuring in Image Writing Group. Woo hoo! The Necessary Evility / Nikon D80 / Nikkor 70-300mm lens / Exposure: 1/160 / F/stop: 5.6 / ISO: 400 (but I can’t imagine why) / Focal length: 300mm / Metering mode: Pattern / Creative setting: Vivid and actually important since that setting increases sharpness before editing to monochrome / no tripod (Maybe that explains the shutter speed and ISO) / hella hot outside (Perhaps 100 degrees F.) / No crows were not bothered in this shot. / No, I’m not really sure what they were singing; Forgot my babblefish. / Corel Paintshop Pro Photo XI did the editing. / Shot taken due east.
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from my 2008 Cemetery Collection – created in the Through the Viewfinder Style Using a lightblocking tube, I shot the square viewfinder of an old vintage argoflex 75 using my digital Olympus E330
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Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph… Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries… and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification… with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him…. ~ Ansel Adams ~
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The midnight run from St. Louis, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, must have been an uncomfortable experience – the dust, bumpy ride, and the ever-present possibility of being held up by outlaws or Indians.
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Location: Yolo County Causeway / Technique: HDR (High Dynamic Range) Featured in Group: / “Rustic” – December 29, 2008 / “Prize Challenges” – December 29, 2008 / “Rusty Crusty & Falling to Bits” – December 31, 2008 / . / . / .
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Location: Yolo County Causeway Sacramento/Davis California / Technique: HDR (High Dynamic Range) Featured in Group: / “Rusty, Crusty & Falling to Bits” – December 31, 2008 Home Page Feature: / January 4, 2009 / . / . / .
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The sun sets over The West Sacramento ban of the Sacramento River.
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Enjoying a glass of wine while watching the sun set on the Sacramento River.
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Location: Davis California / Technique: HDR (High Dynamic Range) Featured in Group: / “Core [C.O.R.E]” – January 12, 2009 / . / . / .
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Sunset and clouds reflected in the river create ribbons on light. Taken along the Sacramento River road in Woodland, CA.
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A beautiful sunset is reflected off the Sacramento River framing the Tower Bridge.
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A stagecoach on the streets of Old Sacramento during the annual Gold Rush Days.
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Old Sacramento sits along the Sacramento river. A night view.
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The old I Street bridge carries cars on the top level and trains on the lower level. It is a turnstyle bridge to allow boats to pass.
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Sacramento river under pink skies.
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Sacramento is sometimes called the Camellia City and this time of year, they are blooming all over.
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A rather preggers European Tree Squirrel. Most are nowhere near as friendly as the American ones but when hungry and eating for a litter that’s kickin but not cryin yet, even those Euros will get friendly. This is a very mild flash from the Nikon D80.
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The Meadows area of the upper Sacramento river Delta is a beautiful pristine area where one can view river otters and a variety of birds.
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Or should it be Wood Duck duckling? What would you yell at a duck going under an underpass with inadequate clearance? “Duck, duck”? Well, this little guy isn’t gonna need warning about something like that for a while. He could have swam under the arches of my feet without tickling my soles. LOL! Like his buddies, he bobbed about, sometimes more than 25 yards from mom and snapped at anything that looked edible, mostly nothing. Mom’s voice was so slight I wasn’t sure I was even hearing it so duckling ears must be pretty big or plenty sensitive under all that fuzz. But when she said somethings, all the ducklings knew it was time to gather with mom or get herded back. I would LOVE to see ducking feet from under clear water. They have to move at the speed of light because they push these little buggers faster than it seems possible. They actually lift up out of the water a bit when really jetting along but their feet never show so they aren’t running on the surface. Or at least, I don’t think so. The Nikon D80 captured this shot with the 70-300mm telephoto at 300mm with the duckling less than 10 feet from me. Wood duckies (There! That works! LOL!) seem immune to fear of humans unless the human moves; they get a LOT closer than mom would. But mom didn’t mind if a few of her little bobbers bobbed over to me, as closely as they could get. And I didn’t mind as long as I was able to get my feet out of the way for their close-ups. :-) Location: McKinley Park “duck pond”, Sacramento, California, USA
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Looked like an typical white duck with the exception of the cool topnotch. And to make things more interesting, there was more than one of them in the park so this wasn’t just an everyday duck having a “bad feather day”. Kewl! It dropped in at about medium on the scale of friendliness: OK with walking within 10 feet but no hand feeding. Piece was renamed after so many of you responded with a better name than: “duck with the feathered crown”. Thanks for the improvement, peeps. LOL! This piece was entered into a challenge by the photographer/makeover artist/writer/wit (choose ‘nit’ or ‘half’) CLiPiCs and it placed well. See below for the edit, the credits, and the challenge entry. And a big thank you to Clippy! :-D
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A beautiful evening along the Sacramento river!
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Featured: WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE…Oct 1, 09 Shot in Old Town, Sacramento, CA. The 1800’s buildings are still fully functional and a tourist’s delight. /
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