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UC Botanical Garden at Berkley

First visit to this local Botanical Garden, with the possibility of seeing some of the San Francisco Airshow too, with views over to Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge. Easy to spot the United 777, but even the C5 Hercules was just a spot from this distance. I had my ‘plant lens’ on too –…
Collection of plane photos

After seeing a couple of T-38A flying over the Bay area today – maybe warming up for the Fleet Week activites soon – I thought I’d gather some aircraft shots from the last few years. Some airshows, some just different new Boeing aircraft taking their early flights – and airlines not normally seen in and…
Local Birds

Some of the local Marin County, California birds captured so far – all within a short walk of the house!
Road Trip 2023 – El Paso to San Antonio

Late in 2023 we headed down to Houston for Christmas, but not directly. We took the opportunity to fly into El Paso, go up to White Sands National Park before heading East. A bit of a misty morning at White Sands the following day made it feel very eerie. Then that day finished with a…
Road Trip 2023 – LA to Salt Lake City (Fallout)

For this road-trip, my daughter was joining me in Los Angeles, then we were driving to Salt Lake City, via Las Vegas, the Grand Canyon, Arches, and various other ‘Fallout’ related sites. Despite never having been to California, my daughter knew some of the roads and pathways in Santa Monica better than I did –…
Seattle Seafair – 2022 and 2023

A set of pictures from two years of Seafair and the Blue Angels and others. 2022 the Space Needle was ‘gold’ – for 2023 back to its usual white. One of my 2022 shots was chosen for the front cover of the ‘Aloft’ magazine, the journal of the Museum of Flight, published for July/August 2023…