My good friend Jack Fulton is a photographer who paints with a camera. We’ve taken a lot of road trips together, including a 2-week sojourn to New Mexico in 1972 shooting a lot of the photos that appeared in Shelter. Wherever we go, we’re both out shooting photos. Jack is constantly scanning the world. It’s inspiring for me.
Friday we went into San Francisco early and wandered around in the late-afternoon sun-drenched beach neighborhood around the 4000 block of Judah. This small village includes Mollusk Surf Shop at 4500 Irving, Outerlands restaurant (fresh-baked bread, hip-beach-driftwood atmosphere, open for lunch and dinner), a block over on Irving, and Trouble Coffee a few doors down, my dream coffee shop, small, cozy, healthy vibes.
Photo by Jack Fulton of Julia and me in Trouble Coffee
Next door, the newly-opened General Store, where, in the back yard, was this perfect little greenhouse (below). I fall in love with a building now and then, and this was one of those. Proportion, placement, used materials, it all comes together. Built by Jesse Schlesinger.
Today’s my birthday, also a full moon (whoo-whoo!). I was going to skate on the mountain at sunrise, but it was cloudy, so I decided to go to a rocky grotto on a nearby beach. I got up at 4:15, made my way down the “not-for-the-faint-hearted” trail, real steep in spots, It’d been raining and I soon learned that Vibram soles are slippery on wet rocks. Got down to the grotto as the full moon was going down on the western horizon. Rain drops falling. A swell had come up overnight and the waves were powerful and crashing. Vortex of energy! I hung out for maybe 20 minutes, then started back up the cliff. Partway up, I looked down at the beach in time to see a big flock of pelicans fly inches above a breaking wave. They use the wave’s updraft and hardly flap their wings. From my vantage point I could see them doing this beautiful dance, skimming above one wave, then when it broke, switching to a new, yet unbroken wave.
This was on the way home, a few hours ago. Low tide in the lagoon.
Joanne Laird sent me this photo she took of a tree frog in British Columbia for a birthday present (today/ age 75; how can it be?)
On road from 4 Corners down to Muir Woods. The cleft you see in the background is part of the Dipsea Race trail.
Does the wind blow up this canyon or what?
Old baseball in nearby field on rainy day.
There’s a wonderful series of photos of a trip to the Peruvian Andes, incl. Machu Picchu, by Bob Harris on boingboing. com. This is a photo of one of the floating houses on Lake Titicaca:
“Lake Titicaca is at about 12,500 feet, about 2.4 miles up in the air. By comparison, Denver is at 5280 feet, altitude sickness starts affecting sensitive people at just 8000 feet, and the MacBook I’m using is only rated by Apple to function up to 10,000 feet. (Above that, the thin air can supposedly cause a dynamic imbalance in the spinning hard drive.) Lake Titicaca is, in a word, somewhat high.
As a result, it’s one of the most vividly colorful places on earth. You’re missing almost two and a half miles of air that normally stand between you and the sun god, plus you’re near the equator, so Inti is bashing you pretty straight on. So the blue is BLUE. The green is GREEN. My camera couldn’t possibly do it justice. The colors are so bright they almost vibrate…
And on this beautiful lake — several kilometers out, just, like, floating out there — live several hundred members of the Uros, a people whose culture predates the Incas.…”
https://www.boingboing.net/2010/03/05/bob-harris-trip-to-t.html
On way down to Muir Woods from 4 corners. Hard to believe it was pouring rain earlier in day…
In San Francisco Tuesday, Geary/Clement around 8th-9th avenues
“Housewatcher” roams the streets of New Orleans, shooting pix of houses and house details: https://www.flickr.com/photos/housewatchertp/sets/
“It is not so novel anymore that a cell phone comes with a built in camera; it’s now the norm. But a certain phone fitted with a camera that produces high-quality macro images which rival those of stand-alone cameras finally prompted me to give up my Canon.
This slideshow is a compilation of some of my favorite iPhone shots, using its macro lens feature.”
-By Trevor Reichman on February 25, 2010 on Treehugger
Next door, the newly-opened General Store, where, in the back yard, was this perfect little greenhouse (below). I fall in love with a building now and then, and this was one of those. Proportion, placement, used materials, it all comes together. Built by Jesse Schlesinger.
