I miss the Central Coast

[pecunium]

Scenes like this are part of the reason why.




It's best viewed large, so click through, and then click the, "All sizes" button.

Comments

[phonemonkey.livejournal.com]

That's stunning.

[niamh-sage.livejournal.com]

Gwaihir! :D

That's a beautiful photograph. You have a great eye for a wonderful picture.

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Neat!

One of these days, I'll have to take a photo of the hawk who shows up in our backyard every once in a while and who perches himself/herself on top of the bird feeder as if hoping that none of the other volatiles will notice.

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

A stunning photograph (and even moreso before you explained that the vulture is below the peak and thus not as large as it first seems). But, on my screen, the sky is peppered with tiny dots in the sky -- darker blue than it is, in the upper left, and lighter in the center & lower right. (I'd call it "grain" but for the sharpness of other details, and its absence in some areas.) I don't know if this is an artifact of my System, or of the medium you used, but it is a wee bit distracting -- though this doesn't detract from your use of this shot to point up the introductory statement. (And yes, I love that country, and still miss it even though it's been half a century since I was at Camp Cooke and Fort Roberts.)

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Some of it is your system (I think), some of it is the way digital deals with the high contrast of clouds in sky (the lower right), and some of it may be noise (the digital equivalent of grain).

I thought about eliminating the cloud, but that seemed too much like cheating.

I have to go to Cp.Roberts (it's been demoted, and; depressingly, just after we left in 2003 the Enlisted Club [which dated to WW2] burnt to the ground. We had a swell bash there, about a week before the fire).

I'll be there for a couple of weeks. Sleeping to the sound of artillery.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, they are big, but the perspective give the vulture (wingspan 6-8') the appearance of a Calif. Condor (which I'd love to see that close to me).


Didn't seem fair to not mention it. I think I need to print this one.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Wow! If you hadn't said it was below the peak, I'd have thought that the perfectly ordinary turkey vulture was a condor. That's an amazing shot.