The shoreline on the ocean side of the point
The shoreline on the ocean side of the point
I finally got a real camera! Of course, the weather decided not to cooperate much, but I did manage to sneak off to the Point one Saturday afternoon and try it out.
The tule elk like to hang out here.
The elk are a bit shy, so a 105mm zoom is not that useful here, and I had not even ordered my 300mm lens yet. I cropped this little section out of a larger picture that had little else in it. (The link is just to the little picture again.) I have the longer lens now, and some filters to play with, but the weather has not yet let up long enough to try again.
More pictures....
The sunset made the manzanita bark almost seem to glow. (Click
for full-size picture.)
Red-tailed hawks like to hang in the updrafts. (This is full-size,
just cropped.)
Pierce Point Ranch (click for full-size version)
As the sun set, I got my Artsy Fartsy Picture Of The Month.
Now that it was fairly dark out, I decided to try some time exposures. After a quick stop at the facility (such as it is) at the parking lot for McClure's Beach, I headed down towards the beach. I took one eight-second exposure (on ISO200 film) of a little rill. It was dark and neither the camera nor I could focus properly, but it still came out OK, all things considered.
Waterfall-ette in streamlet (click for full-size image)
The other in-the-dark, long-exposure pictures were less successful. I had the exposure time too low -- I metered too much `sky', not enough `dark stuff'. This was the best one:
McClure's Beach, in the dark (click for full-size image)
up to `all Point Reyes'
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