Category Archives: Photos

The whole shootin’ match.

Looking up

I didn’t have much luck today with the commute shots. I did, however, get a helicopter shot which I think is a perfect pairing with a zeppelin shot I got earlier this month–and no, I don’t sell insurance ;-). Both of these are spur of the moment grabs and exactly as the camera recorded them. The corner elements just happened to work out.

Helicopter in flight

Zeppelin in flight

Canon G11 looking up.

Old pump house

Across the expressway from where I work there’s a park surrounded by salt ponds. This is the front side of an old, decaying pump house that’s situated near the entrance to the park. The wooden deck that leads up to the door is fairly rotten so it’s cordoned off. I took several shots of the structure, but liked this partial view:

Green on red

Swallows nests in the eaves on the backside (interesting how differently the blue of the sky rendered looking straight up–no polarizer today):

Green on red

Canon G11 on the road.

Hit or miss

Sometime “hit and run” commute photography is hit or miss. I couldn’t get close enough to what I wanted to shoot, and because I was on the verge of conspicuously trespassing (at 2:45 in the afternoon!) I only snapped a few shots and fled the scene. This is a concrete plant out on the edge of the bay in Redwood City. Because of the starkness of the train and structures I chose to desaturate the images about 50%:

Concrete plant 1

Concrete plant 2

Canon G11 in stealth mode.