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.
Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
Here’s a lovely photo I took of the Golden Gate Bridge in late June of this summer. The beautiful colors in this photo show just how pleasant a warm summer afternoon can be in San Francisco. During much of the year it’s not uncommon to see the bridge enveloped in fog, even when the city is bright and sunny. I happened to be in the city on this perfectly clear day so I drove across Golden Gate to the Marin Headlands to look around and captured this photo.
View a larger version of the photo here.
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.
Abandoned Military Tunnel at Hawk's Hill
This tunnel is one of several in an abandoned military structure at Hawk’s Hill in the Marin Headlands just above the Golden Gate Bridge. The structure was built to defend San Francisco from an attack by sea during World War II but was abandoned before completion near the end of the war when it was apparent America was not at threat.