Joshua Tree NP
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Borrego Springs
John Muir Wilderness.
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California has so many beautiful and diverse places.
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Commodore Tompkins and his crew, headed to the finish line, beating out his boss, Lowell North (North Sails) to win this Soling race. Probably 1972, as that was a huge Olympic year for the Bay. Three of the six class Olympic trials were held out there, and we had boats from all over the country coming to our little local Olympic class races. Conditions on the Bay were similar to conditions on the Olympic course that year. This photo appeared on the cover of SEA magazine that year, and used in trade shows blown way up.
This is a Dragon class boat, there for the Dragon Olympic trials. Boat was from New Orleans, bright red in color.
These are Star boats, also still an Olympic class at that time. Always fun to watch.
Solings just starting a race. Lowell North (North Sails) on the right. The Soling was new to the Olympics that year and really the hot boat of the moment. It looks like they will run me down, but I wasn't in their way -- telephoto in use on a race committee boat.
San Francisco Bay is generally filled with white sails on the weekend. Racing is deep in the heart of sailboat owners, any size. These are, or used to be, all Olympic Class boats. These are from 1972.
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The tower of the deYoung and Golden Gate Park then to the coast line from a terrace at UCSF
© Rick Ehling 📷 12/30/2024
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One of the hidden jewels of the Napa Valley is Jade Lake, hidden behind Chateau Montelena Winery in Calistoga. Pagodas are authentic, and back in the day we could walk out on those bridges. Last time I was there, which was this time, they were closed. But the path around the lake was open.
Winegrapes just beginning to turn ripen, turning red against green vines and a bright blue sky. I remember taking this at a riverside shopping district -- purely for decoration, not a working vineyard.
Looking Northwest from a friend's house high in the eastern hills of the Napa Valley. I stayed there for a couple of weeks in June 2016, while they were out of town. Unfortunately, the house was destroyed in the 2017 Atlas fire.
A bright orange sunset with silhouetted trees above and layered mountain ridges. This was also from my friends' house in 2016.
More, but different, Napa Valley photos. These are all from recent years (since 2012, as opposed to when I lived there 1979-1986).
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A colorful sunset with some mountains in the background. The foreground is dark and blurred from train motion. The clouds have shades of orange, pink and yellow.
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California sunset from a train headed south.
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An antique, but beautifully restored or kept, Chevrolet truck is coming towards the right of the camera. Behind it, a white building with a tunnel for the road to go through also has a walkway above the tunnel.
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Nice looking truck on Alcatraz Island.
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Zabriske point Death Valley
Night game SF Giants from the bleachers at AT&T Park
Sunset in Joshua Tree National Park
Flower garden in Carlsbad California.
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My last observations for this week’s #50statejourney.
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Yosemite Falls
Looking up into the canopy of a very tall tree in Mariposa Grove.
The Grizzly Giant, a massive sequoia in Mariposa Grove.
A stream alongside El Capitan.
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Before moving on to #Colorado tomorrow, I'm posting a few more random #California images from Yosemite. Share your #travel photos and tag with a location and #50StateJourney. #originalcontent
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Random palm tree lined street somewhere around Fairfax in LA
Kelso Junction, an old preserved train station in the Mojave Preserve.
A flame peeks up above a friend’s fire pit on a summer night in the Sierra Nevada foothills.
The sweeping coastline of Big Sur.
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A motorcycle parked on the shoulder of a desert road in bright midday sun under a cloudless blue sky. on the left the road stretches into the distance, lined by telephone poles. to the right a large sculpture of a nude woman sits on a shipping container. A large log or bone passes through her body at stomach level.
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Amboy Road, east of Twentynine Palms, #California
This art installation may have been removed since I took this shot in 2022. It was large; she's sitting on a standard sized shipping container.
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Two posts, close together by the water. Each has a lantern attached. At the top of the right post, which is slightly taller than the left one, is a sea gull. In the background we see water, and beyond it, hills.
Sausalito gull for #50StateJourney
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Neon sign for Roy's Motel and Cafe on Route 66, with decrepit white 1959 Lincoln Continental and 2007 BMW R1200R motorcycle parked in front. Motel and cafe in background. Bright midday sun under a clear blue sky.
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Roy's Motel and Cafe on Route 66
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Second post from a series taken here
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The Pacific looking oddly tropical but still cold. The surf off Limantour Beach, Point Reyes
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Thick tree trunks, redwoods and ferns. This is from Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, which was one of my favorites. It's hard to catch the true size and magnificence of these trees in a photo.
Morning sun beaming through the redwoods and ferns. Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park. These trees are really quite young. So many were logged and are regrowing.
Two wonderful giants, with their shaggy bark. This was somewhere on the Hiouchi Trail that skirts Jedediah Smith State Redwoods Park and the Smith River. It's probably in or near the Stout Grove, which is at one end of the trail.
It's hard to get a real sense of size here. This is not a small opening -- the Hiouchi Trail runs right through it. Several people could have fit inside, standing up.
There's nothing like the majestic redwoods of northern California. I've walked many miles of trails there, always happy amidst the giants and frequently, the fog.
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Two sailboats with sails saying "Oracle" are racing across water. There is fog in the background, and the Golden Gate Bridge can be seen rising out of it.
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When we were in San Francisco several years back, they were preparing for the America's Cup race. Lots of interesting sailboats, including these two from Oracle. Some bridge photobombing out of the fog 😆.
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Grapevine beginning to turn fall colors, green with red edges. Brilliantly lit by a ray of sunshine. This was a very famous vineyard near Calistoga. A friend and I were given permission to wander through it and take photos. Pretty sure it was a cabernet vineyard. I used a screw-on close-up lens for this -- long before digital photography and macro lenses.
A bright but cloudy day in the Napa Valley, with symmetrical rows of stakes and newly planted grapevines in the foreground, the old and famous Inglenook Winery in the background. I'm not sure what name Inglenook uses these days. Francis Ford Coppola bought it while I was there and I think he changed the name. Don't know if he still owns it or not, since he has a 'new' winery in Sonoma County.
Early morning in the Napa Valley, along the Silverado Trail. Dark tree branches hanging in the foreground. Orange and gold fall grapevines in the foreground, with green vines behind and a layer of fog over the Napa River. The Mayacamas Mountains are in the background. I took this very early one morning, barely dawn, when I was out for a bike ride
Brilliant yellow mustard blooming below a line of trees covered with pink blossoms. Also off the Silverado Trail, this was a breathtaking sight that didn't happen every year. Weather conditions had to be just right for the mustard to be blooming at the same time those trees lining a driveway were blooming.
I was lucky enough to live/work in the Napa Valley for 7 years, quite a good while ago. Out of hundreds of photos, not a lot remain but those are the ones I love the best.
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"California Chilling"
California Elephant Seal at Elephant Seal Beach - San Simeon
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That Obscure Object of Desire
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Morro Bay
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Birds of paradise on a hill
A fortune from The Formosa.
Downtown San Francisco
R2D2 and C-3PO at Lucasfilm HQ in the Presidio.
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I miss this place.
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Carmel Valley looking east from the Garland Ranch regional park hiking trails.
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Water rushes over the rocks with bright green trees and foliage lining the banks of the waterway. A mountain face is in the background.
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Check out some great photos from #California on the #50StateJourney hashtag. Post your own #travel photos and tag with a location.
Somewhere in Yosemite, May 2015
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Golden Gate Recreational Area: view of Golden Gate and San Francisco (in the back ground)
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Coastline Highway 1, just south of Bird Rock with the rest of the morning fog, taken in 2013
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The bottom 20-30 feet of some towering sequoia trees. Very thick trunks growing straight up.
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📷 Mariposa Grove sequoias. #talltreetuesday #photography
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Welcome to the state I’m so thankful to call home! #50StateJourney
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Lets start with some views of Yosemite Valley, photographed along Glacier Point Rd.
Yosemite National Park. Shot on Canon M200, Summer 2024.
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