Swirling Bubbles
I found this spot late one afternoon while following a stream down toward the Big River south of Mendocino. The bubbles were forming in waterfalls upstream then turning around and around in this eddy. I set up my tripod at the edge of the pool and used an exposure of about fourteen seconds to show the motion. The sun was behind a hill, so everything was lit only with the blue light from the sky.
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Tunnel at Little River
I took this picture looking out toward the ocean from the bottom of the sinkhole behind the Little River Cemetery. The afternoon light was shining through the waves from behind, giving that blue green color, and the rock of the tunnel was lit by the reflections from the back wall of the sinkhole. I used a long exposure to get the soft look in the waves.
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Montgomery Woods
Montgomery Woods is a redwood grove near Comptche. Further up the creek is one of the the tallest trees in the world, at over 367 feet high. I took this picture on a cloudy afternoon in early spring.
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Anna’s Hummingbird
In April, in a grove of bishop pines above the mouth of the Big River, I noticed a hummingbird flying from branch to branch and chirping unhappily at me. I walked away and pretended to leave but really hid and watched. After a few minutes it flew to its well hidden nest, made of spider web and lichen and set on a low pine branch near the edge of the cliff. For a sense of scale, the nest was only about one and a half inches across, and the pine cone on the right was about three inches long. The thing that looks like a string is just more lichen that was hanging from a branch up above.
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Van Damm
This is part of Van Damme Sate Park, looking south toward the cove at Little River. The Naked Lady flowers bloom in the late summer, this was sometime in early August.
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Raindrop on a Wild Pea Tendril
This was out on the Mendocino Headlands one rainy March day. The drop was hanging from the dangling end of a wild pea vine that kept bobbing up and down in the breeze. Working from under a sheet of clear plastic to keep my equipment dry, I focused on the spot where it reached its lowest point before going back up. Each time it came to that point it was still for just a moment and I would click the shutter. I was able to get several sharp pictures that way.
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