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Pacific Silhouettes
Leo Carillo State Park, Malibu, California
There was some dramatic lighting allowing for some nice silhouette shots.
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Ocean Still Life
Leo Carillo State Park, Malibu, California
The beach at Leo Carillo State Park leaves many tidal pools with various creatures in them. we clambered through caves and over rocks to see them and I took lots of still life shots of what we saw.
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Pacific Views
Leo Carillo State Park, Malibu, California
Leo Carillo State Park, Malibu, California
After lunch on Boxing Day (December 26th) we went to Leo Carillo State Park up the coast a bit in Malibu.
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Sunlight
By lunchtime the sun had peeped out and I had occasion to pull out the Fujifilm 60mm macro lens for these shots of the sunlight passing through a glass of water onto the tablecloth.
Treescape
We drove under a threatening sky to lunch in Malibu with family
Something Fishy
Getty Villa
Landscaped architecture
An arbor
Promenade
Getty vista
Architectural view
Pillared garden
Looking up through the arbor trellis
Gillian takes on the classics
The next day (Boxing Day), we visited the Getty Villa, modeled on ancient Roman country houses. A few snaps to give an idea of the carefully designed beauty of the place.
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Margaret in the Mirror
Hotel Window Views
Christmas Day in Santa (Monica)
…or, People in Glass Houses…
Venice Beach home
Santa Monica, California
The French Lieutenant’s Woman?
After Christmas morning coffee in Palm Springs, we drove up to Santa Monica. We arrived before the hotel was ready for us and killed time walking down the beach to Venice and back.
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Christmas Day in Palm Springs
Rudolph?
Christmas Couple
Palm Springs, California
Christmas morning we walked to a coffee shop before leaving Palm Springs. Click a picture to see them all enlarged.
Tilting at Windmills?
Yucca Valley, California
As we continued our dusk drive back to Palm Springs from Black Rock Canyon we passed by windmills again, bluish and haunting in the cool evening light.
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Sunset
Yucca Valley, California
Driving back to Palm Springs from Black Rock Canyon we caught a lovely sunset. I caught these images through the car window on the drive (I wasn’t at the wheel). Click any image to see them all bigger.
Black Rock Canyon
Black Rock Canyon, California
After the wind farm tour, we raced like the wind to the Black Rock Canyon trail to take a 4-mile hike before the sun went down.
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Blowin’ in the Wind
Wind Farm, Coachella Valley, California
The next morning we took a tour of a wind farm in the Coachella Valley. Our expert guide educated us on the history of wind farming, the Coachella Valley’s natural advantages, how windmills work and the equipment used to convert wind energy into electricity used on Southern California’s grid.
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More Joshua Tree
Joshua Tree
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Leaving Joshua Tree
After Cap Rock we piled back into the car and you can see the near foreground motion blur in the first photo again. On the way back to Palm Springs we passed through a wind farm with snowy mountain backgrounds.
Cap Rock
Cap Rock Trail, Joshua Tree, California
Cap Rock Trail, Joshua Tree National Park, California
Eventually we emerged from the car and took the brief 0.3 mile walk around Cap Rock as the sun began to go down and the fog rolled in and out. Gorgeous.
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Approaching Cap Rock
Joshua Tree, California
Approaching the short Cap Rock trail in Joshua Tree National Park by car, I continued to shoot at 1/250th of a second yielding the same motion blurred foreground and sharp background. Processed using Fujifilm’s Velvia vivid landscape film profile on a cloudy day just before the late afternoon sun headed down.
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