{"id":1736,"date":"2007-07-09T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1736"},"modified":"2007-07-09T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T19:00:22","slug":"coastin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1736","title":{"rendered":"Coastin"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the Sonoma valley, it was off to the Sonoma coast. For us, that was a drive down Rt116 through the Russian River valley, which mixes vineyards, river and giant redwoods. For example, here's a pair of medium-sized trees in the Armstrong Redwoods park. These weren't the biggest trees in the park, by a long shot, but this shot gives a better sense of scale than any of the others we took (Mrs. Cleek took this, of me):
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Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n

Then, after another 15 minutes of driving, we hit the fog, and then, we reached... the beach:
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Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n

The water was actually about 30 feet<\/a> in from of Mrs C.. But, the fog and a little dip in elevation obscured the breaking waves from where I took that shot. Looks better without it, IMO.<\/p>\n

A seal was bobbing around in the water, watching us watch it from the beach. He evaded my camera. This guy didn't:
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Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n

By the way, if you want to know kind of image is the hardest for JPEG to handle, the starfish shot is it - no smooth solid colors, lots of small contrasty details.<\/p>\n

There was beach, and there was rock and cliff:
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Nikon D100, 18-35mm<\/div>\n

That's quite a change from the NC coast, which is pretty much completely sandy beach, with houses lined-up as far as you can see, right up to the dunes. The little stretch of the Sonoma coast that we saw felt barren by comparison: scattered farm houses with a few vacation cottages here and there.<\/p>\n

We did one night at a resort in the little wisp of a town called Bodega Bay, where the Alfred Hitchcock movie, The Birds, was filmed<\/strike>, and where I somehow managed to get insanely drunk (I'm guessing it was the hot tub, since I really didn't drink much more than anyone else I was with). Yay!<\/p>\n

Then the drive back to San Fran, to catch our planes. Here's the church from The Birds, in the town of Tomales:
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Nikon D100, 28-80mm<\/div>\n

And, after 8 hours sitting in the SF airport, here's L.A. at night:
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Nikon D100, 28-80mm<\/div>\n

That's the moon, up in the corner. Those greasy, plastic airplane windows really suck for taking night shots.<\/p>\n

And that's that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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