Foggy Day from southside St. John's, NL

Grey Foggy Day from southside St. John’s, Newfoundland looking across at the battery.

Late Autumn Sunset

Autumn Colours - Lewisporte, Newfoundland

I captured this colorful scene at the train park river trail in Lewisporte, Newfoundland over the Thanksgiving Weekend. There is no better time of the year than fall to bring out the beautiful colours of nature.

View from the East Coast Trail near Outer Cove, Newfoundland

Ice in the Narrows, Signal Hill, St. John's

Crissy Field Beach, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco

I was in San Francisco at Crissy Field on Sunday to watch the Blue Angels and the airshow as part of 2008 Fleet Week. While walking alone the shoreline trail I saw this rough fence post leaning to one side with the Golden Gate bridge in the background. The bay was filled with boats that day to watch the festivities above, you can still see some in the photo despite most having left shortly after the airshow ended.

Sunrise over Mount Diablo, Walnut Creek

Sunrise over Mount Diablo in Walnut Creek, California I captured one morning earlier this month.

As the year draws to an end, it’s getting much easier to capture sunrise/early morning shots as you no longer have to get out of bed at such a difficult hour!

Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur, California

Another beautiful scenic shot from my weekend trip down coastal Highway 1 in Northern California. This photo was taken of the coastline at Bixby Creek Bridge, near Big Sur 120 miles south of San Francisco. According to Wikipedia, the bridge is 714 feet long, 280 feet high and was built in 1932. It is supposed to be “one of the most photographed features on the West Coast” due to the beautiful coastal scenery shown here and its central location on the California coastal highway.

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Big Sur Coastline, California Highway 1

For the Labour Day weekend, I drove down California Highway 1 from Monterey to Pismo Beach. The above photo was taken along the Big Sur coast, just south of Carmel-By-The-Sea, California. I’m still out (writing this from a hotel) so I’ll have more photos to post this coming week once I get home and have more time to sort through my photos.

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Succulents at Sutro Baths

On Saturday I had the fantastic opportunity of participating in Scott Kelby’s Worldwide PhotoWalk. PhotoWalks were planned in cities all around the world, whereby groups of photographers got together for 2-3 hours and walked pre-planned routes, taking pictures as they went. If you ever have the opportunity to participate in (or plan!) such an event, it is a great way to meet other photographers, and to learn from them. It can be amazing to see photographs from other photographers who were in the same place at the same time as you, but just saw something that you missed completely or even a different angle on a photo you did take.

My PhotoWalk took place in Lands End, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco and covered the coastal trail towards Bakers Beach, the famous Sutro Baths and the Cliff House. Though I arrived late and missed the main group of photographers, I did meet a few straggling photographers along the route and did get a nice set of photos myself. I’ve posted a few of my photos that I captured above and below. You can view the entire collection in my flickr gallery or even better as a slideshow on flickr.

Sea Monster attacks Golden Gate!

This photo is somewhat whimsical. It is really an old steel cable fraying apart however when I saw it, the twirled loose cables made me think of a giant squid or terrible sea monster from a cheesy old movie.

Crumbling Stairway

This old brick stairway has seen better days. Part of the Sutro Bath ruins, it may have once been an actual stairwell to one of the many pools inside Sutro Baths, or perhaps it was a more recent update by the National Parks Service. Either way, it is in pretty poor shape now and the area was in fact marked as unsafe for visitors.

The Cliff House

The current Cliff House is only one of many buildings that have been called such and stood on this spot over many years. The current building is probably the smallest ever. It is a great place from which to view the ocean, Seal Rocks just off from the shore and also the magificent “Ocean Beach” which is next door. The building also houses two very nice restaurants.

Pretty Pinks

I’m not sure what type of flowers these are These flowers are called “Naked Ladies” and are a type of Amaryllis (thanks Tina!). The flowers were a wonderful splash of color along the coastline on a day which was otherwise grey and bleak weather-wise.