Continuing with my “enjoying a week off in B&W” theme, I pulled this shot from a folder of posts from earlier this year (posted elsewhere) and re-tweaked it with Nik Silver Efex Pro.
Canon G11 resting on its laurels.
Category Archives: Commute
Shots from my daily commute.
Commute redux
It’s been a while since I grabbed some commute photos. Today the rain subsided so I scooted off the freeway at the Mill Valley turnoff to grab some shots. Also, I’m demoing Nik Silver Effects Pro–hence more black and white. First impression… it’s the shite! Great PS plugin! No doubt I’ll pay the price of admission because it’s much more robust than the built in Photoshop black and white filter.
Mt Tamalpais enveloped in clouds after the storm:
And looking northeast towards Hwy 101:
Canon G11 back on the commute route.
Nor Cal December
The grass turns green in December in Northern California–which means rain and gray skies. I posted a photo of this same field several months ago when it was brown and full of hay bales. The freshly mowed look won’t last for long. One warmish day and you’ll be able to hear the grass growing.
And, as a kind of leitmotiv, a contrasty black and white shot of the palm in front of our house (obviously not the palm I posted a couple of days ago). Palms survive the Nor Cal winters quite nicely as long as we don’t get the rare hard freeze. But even then they survive. They just look ratty for a while.
Canon G11 in the Nor Cal December.
Monumental shadow
Yet another HOT October day in the Bay Area. Driving north, the sun assaulting the left side of my head, I turn right at the Golden Gate Bridge north vista point thinking I’ll get some cool air flow. Nope. It’s HOT there too. But I did get a different shot of the bridge–the afternoon shadow:
Canon G11 into the shadows.
Endless summer
It’s freaking HOT again here in the Bay Area, and the heat makes me lazy. It also makes the gradient on the left side of my head much darker than it is on the right (I’ll leave visualizing that up to your imagination 😉 ).
I shot this oak facing directly into the HOT sun today at about 4:00 PM. I did some Photoshop Black and White tweaking on it, shrank it down to blog size, added a tad of sharpening…
Canon G11 staring into the sun.