For today’s commute photos I turned off 19th Ave on to Rivera St. and went up the hill. No fog today! These are a few of the shots I got before wending my way back to 19th for the rest of the long slog home.
Canon G11 on an urban mission.
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:
Swallows nests in the eaves on the backside (interesting how differently the blue of the sky rendered looking straight up–no polarizer today):
Canon G11 on the road.
Green on red
To brighten things up a bit here’s one of the commute photos I posted on my Facebook page earlier this month. I’m not a bullet bike fan, but the color combination of the green against the red is fab.
Canon G11 does color well.
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%:
Canon G11 in stealth mode.
Painting out the haze
Seems like it has been months since we had a really clear day in the SF Bay Area. During the harsh light hours of the hazy summer afternoons when I’m commuting home the landscape views have been anything but inviting. But I’ve taken shots, and for fun I gave these two a kind old print look:
Canon G11 with an eye for painting out the haze.