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Day 342: He’s got the whole world in his beak!

Monday, December 10, 2012

Or at least the Moon.  A serendipitous photo: I didn’t even see the Moon when I took it!  This is, of course, a Brown Pelican. (1/400s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) P7100) ~Curtis on the shore of Monterey Bay! {!-{>

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Day 341

Friday, December 7, 2012

More otters… (1/125s f/5.6 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) P7100) (1/200s f/5.6 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) P7100) (1/125s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) P7100) (1/200s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1/3 stop P7100) (1/200s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1/3 stop P7100) ~Curtis in Pacific Grove! {!-{>

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Day 340

Friday, December 7, 2012

I was waiting for a couple of interviews yesterday when I saw…otters…on the sea shore! (1/200s f/5.6 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1/3 stop P7100) These are all 100% sized crops: no reductions.  It pushed the lens on my P7100 to the limit! (1/250s f/5.6 ISO100 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1/3 stop P7100) These are full coolor, […]

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Day 339

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

We went down to the Monterey Aquarium in the pouring rain on Sunday.  This is a view from earlier when it wasn’t raining, of Cannery Row, looking towards the Aquarium, way down at the end of the street, taken by the Dailylife Wife. (Olympus PEN PL2) Inside the Aquarium there is a large Killer Whale […]

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Day 338

Sunday, December 2, 2012

The Dailylife Wife has been down here in Monterey with me for the weekend, and it has generally been rainy and otherwise stormy.  We have seen the waves, birds, Big Sur, Carmel, Seaside, rain, wind, Cannery Row, the Aquarium…and after all that some of the last photos I took today jumped the que.  As the […]

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Day 337

Saturday, December 1, 2012

The sun was out while I was finding my way around town.  This nice bush was down on the shoreline drive around Pacific Grove.  Doggone if I know the name of it. (1/500s f/6.3 ISO200 22.5mm (35mm eq:105mm) -2/3 stop P7100) Drive through Monterey I thought I saw something familiar through the trees… (1/640s f/5.0 […]

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Day 336

Friday, November 30, 2012

A few nice waves breaking prior to the storms coming in.  Click on them to enlarge them for nicer viewing! (BACK to return…) (1/1250s f/7.1 ISO200 28.9mm (35mm eq:135mm) -2/3 stop P7100) (1/800s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop P7100) (1/800s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop P7100) Wait until you see what […]

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Day 335

Friday, November 30, 2012

“Tower, two heavies on approach.” (1/800s f/6.3 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop P7100) “Landing gear is down.” (1/800s f/6.3 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 P7100) “We have touchdown.” (1/800s f/6.3 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop P7100) “”Roger.  Taxi to engine stop.” (1/640s f/6.3 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -2/3 stop P7100) ~Curtis in Pacific […]

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Day 334

Friday, November 30, 2012

The seagulls are bigger down here…about the size of small turkeys… (1/1000s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm)-1 stop P7100) The pelicans are dirtier… (1/640s f/8.0 ISO200 42.6mm (35mm eq:200mm) -1 stop P7100) The coastline is…wetter…looking past Monterey, back at Seaside. (1/800s f/5.6 ISO200 16.3mm (35mm eq:76mm) -1/3 stop P7100) ~Curtis, still in Pacific Grove! {!-{>

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Day 333

Thursday, November 29, 2012

On approach to San Jose! (1/1000s f/3.5 ISO100 13mm (35mm eq:61mm) -1 P7100) About the third floor of a spiral ramp down from the sixth floor parking for my rental car…there were two more floors up…all rentals… (1/1000s f/3.5 ISO100 6mm (35mm eq:28mm) -1 P7100) Wait for it… (1/400s f/4.0 ISO100 16.3mm (35mm eq:76mm) -1/3 […]

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