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San Francisco Twilight Skyline

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San Francisco Twilight Skyline, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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The tide was out so a few friends and I braved walking across the rocky break wall to get out to the exposed sand. Parts were really soft, and if you weren’t careful you’d sink pretty far. I didn’t plan too well…I wore boots, but they were suede! They needed a good brushing afterwords. It was worth it. The view was wonderful, and the sky put on a beautiful show for us.

There are several buildings with red lights on their tops you can see around the city. Coit Tower over on the right kind of hidden by the bridge is all decked out in red, and the Ferry Bldg off center left has it’s steeple in red. All are showing their support for the Home Team the "San Francisco 49er’s". They’ve won the Championship game and I wish them luck with the Super-Bowl!

Nikon D700| Nikkor 28-105@70mm| f11| 30 sec.| ISO 200| Manual Priority| Tripod

Jupiter-Moon Conjunction January 22 2013

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A couple of friends reminded me about this Heavenly event; Jupiter is right next to the Moon. Jupiter’s Moons may be visible to those with scopes. I hadn’t planned to shoot it. Then I went outside to see it and had to try. I couldn’t see Jupiter’s moons with my eyes or the lens so, I will enjoy the work of others like my friend Andy aka Stargazer95050, Rico, and SteventheAmusing who have telescopes and star trackers.
The moon is really high tonight so there is no hope of getting any foreground. It was worth the neck discomfort looking this high up.
Get out and look at it if you can. It won’t happen again until 2026.

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 80-200mm @200mm + Tamron 1.4tc| f11| 1/125s| ISO 250| Manual Priority| Tripod

Yellow-rumped Warbler

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Yellow-rumped Warbler, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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While most the Bay Area was watching the 49er game friends Dali, Rainey and myself went on a birding expedition. This mellow yellow little Warbler was a happy to pose for us.

Congratulations to the 49ers!
Best wishes for a Superbowl win. Go Home Team GO!

Nikon D300s| Nikkor 80-200mm AF-D @ 200mm + Tamron 1.4TC| f8| 1/1000| ISO 640| Manual Priority

Sutro Baths in Moon light

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Sutro Baths in Moon light, originally uploaded by dmzajac2004-.

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This is from my archives. I’ve wanted to shoot this scene with the full moon for about 2 yrs. Unfortunately when the moon has been full it hasn’t quite lined up or the weather didn’t cooperate. So when I had a waxing  gibbous 3/4 moon I went up to the city to get this shot as “practice”.
Since I’m spending a good deal of time at home these days I’ve turned my mind to cleaning out my closets, freecycling lots of clothes, cleaning out my 2012 files and reference materials…I shredded and recycled about 20 pounds of paper, and culling my photo files. While doing that I have discovered photos that are worth working on…like this one.

This is a two image composite. I took the foreground photo then switched lenses to my 70-300mm and shot the moon. Both images were taken the same night within minutes of each other. I blended them in Photoshop CS6. Someday I hope to get this shot with a bit of atmosphere and the full moon lined up just right.

Nikon D700| Nikkor 17-35 & 70-300mmVR