Lands End

Here are some shots from a little off the San Francisco tourist track. It's the Lands End park, on the Pacific Ocean side of the Golden Gate Bridge, and it includes the Sutro Bath ruins shown here.

It's a very pretty park with lovely trails and trees.

The coastline is fairly rugged.

If you're lucky, the famous bridge will show itself through the mist.

The fog came and went for us.

Here's one of my favorite shots of the bridge.

Our World Tuesday

Foggy SF Sky

From last year's trip to California, here's a leftover Skywatch Friday photo from a hotel window. I posted a photo taken a few minutes earlier from the same place a few months ago...

Foggy San Francisco

To all my American readers, and to anybody else who celebrates it, Happy Thanksgiving! Here's a summer shot from San Francisco, where I visited for a wedding. There are lots more shots from this trip ready to be posted.

Skywatch Friday

Misty Morning Drive

I love my drive to work - here's a cellphone shot from a few days ago as sunrise was approaching. I pulled off at a scenic overlook to get this one.

Skywatch Friday

Charleston Swamp (3)

Skywatch Friday

Foggy Swamp

I recently spent a week vacationing in the southeast United States, and here's a Skywatch Friday photo from Charleston on a foggy morning taken near our hotel. There are lots more photos to come from this trip!

Green Skies?

No, it's nothing natural. I was playing with a green laser on a foggy night. For Skywatch Friday.

Foggy 1WTC

These photos were taken last time I was in New York City, when One World Trade Center was nearing completion.

Skywatch Friday

Cold & Mist

Taken from my front yard a few weeks ago for Skywatch Friday.

Misty Aspen Mountains

Early October 1995, camping near Aspen. The morning's view near the tent.

A scanned slide for Vintage Weekly and Skywatch Friday.

Snowy Mist

I loved the mysterious feeling created by the low fog hanging just above the ground looking out from our deck. This was taken just after sunset after a small snowstorm a few weeks ago, and I think it's a nice photo for Skywatch Friday. And the fog qualifies for Tina's PicStory theme of "clouds" this week.

Fog & Dizzying Sun

On Sunday we started with fog in the morning. You can see how dry the winter has been by the very brown grass.

By the afternoon the clouds had mostly cleared, so I took these skywards shots when I took Socks for a walk in Fox Run Park.

Visit the awesome Skywatch Friday meme for more skywards photos.

I'm putting together a new meme which should be live this weekend, on Saturday or Sunday depending on where in the world you live. It's for all photos scanned, they can be old prints or slides, or even new scanned shots if you still shoot on film. It can be found at Sunday Scans - I'll try it for a few weeks, and if it gets some interest and doesn't take too much time to clear out abusive links, I'll keep it going indefinitely, every weekend.

Thursday Morning Grey

As I've shown before, we sometimes get fogs settle in on our ridge. Last Thursday morning I woke up to find a fog thick enough that the house across the street wasn't even visible.

The previous photo is also interesting technically, because it's one of the few scenarios when the light fall-off that a wide angle lens has towards the corners is visible. This was taken using an ultra-wide-angle lens at 10mm on f/7.1, and the corners are visibly darker than the center. Normally there's enough variation in a photo that this effect won't be noticed, but with this total gray it can clearly be seen (sometimes it's also visible with a completely clear blue sky). But I don't think it hurts the shot.

When it's cold, these fogs freeze on everything, as this one did.

Both these photos are color, not B&W, but there was simply no color to be seen. I know I've posted photos like this before, but it is time for Skywatch Friday after all!

Skywatch Friday - Misty Pine Trees

At our elevation, sometimes we're in the clouds others are looking up at. This happened to us last week for about 24 hours straight, so I took the opportunity to go to Fox Run Park (one of my favorite places to walk Socks) and take a few photos for Skywatch Friday. They're not full of sky but I think they are still sky-related.

For more pictures of skies around the world, visit the great Skywatch Friday home page.