I’m uninspired to shoot during my commute these days, not because I don’t want to but because the weather has been so perfectly dull. Clear, but hazy skies and/or high fog on virtually windless days for two weeks. So, for today’s photo, I went back to that weird, wispy fog day at the Golden Gate Bridge last month and pulled up this image of a fog stream.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm.
Canon T2i following the stream.
There wasn’t much beauty in today’s commute, so to “celebrate” that fact I didn’t stop to take photos. Instead I antiqued this shot I took a month or so ago up at the old batteries on Hendrik Point near the Golden Gate Bridge.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm.
Canon T2i going old school.
I took this shot a couple of weekends back while I was out cruising the back roads looking to capture some barren hill vistas. This scene is just a few miles from my house and was the first I photographed during that drive.
Lens: Canon 15-85mm at 35mm. 1/200 second at f/11, ISO 200.
Canon T2i on a country road.
I took this shot yesterday during my short stop at the Fort Baker fishing pier. The gull was keeping a vigilant eye on a noisy juvenile gull perched on the rail on the opposite side of the pier, but for a moment it looked my way long enough for me to grab this shot.
I’m also posting the color image because I can’t decide which version I prefer.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm at 85mm. 1/250 second at f/11, ISO 200.
Canon T2i seeing eye to eye.
Sunday was cool and cloudy in the Bay Area, but today it was full-on Indian Summer. Unfortunately the cloudless sky was filled with a brownish haze that didn’t make for photogenic vistas of the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. But it was such a warm afternoon I decided to head down to the water anyway, stopping at one of my favorite commute photo-taking stomping grounds, Fort Baker. Because the sky was unappealing, I looked for other views to fill the frame. I took several of these close-up shots of the fishing pier pilings reflecting on the water.
While I was focusing on the pilings this seal popped up to check me out. Fortunately, I had enough time to grab a quick shot before it swam off.
Lens: Canon EF-S 15-85mm.
First image: lens at 70mm. 1/125 second at f/11, ISO 200.
Second image: lens at 85mm. 1/125 second at f/11, ISO 200.
Canon T2i focusing on the water.