Month: January 2012
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Diving the California Oil Rigs, Part 1
(This is a continuation of my previous post on the California oil rigs.) The platforms are formidable structures both above and below the water. The water was green and murky at the rigs this weekend, with visibility in the 15-foot range. The vis did start to open up below about 100 feet (our maximum depths…
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Self-Portrait
I need to say something about Canon USA’s awesome repair department. Of course I don’t ever want my stuff to break. Every so often, despite my best attempts at careful handling and maintenance, my stuff breaks anyway. My most recent casualty was the 50mm f/1.4 lens, which spontaneously stopped autofocusing the other day. A quick…
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Birds on a streetlamp
I’d been driving around San Diego for a few days, looking for a spot to do the typical “birds on a power line” photo, but this opportunity presented itself first. I cranked the exposure and contrast in post to get a flat white background.
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A rainy morning in the garden.
It drizzled this morning for a few hours. One of the things I was looking forward to when we came to San Diego was the ability to grow fresh tomatoes year-round, but I came to find out that beach winters here are still a bit too cold for fruit. The plants have a lot of…
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A polite request.
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Sand Dollar
Living sand dollars are all over the place underwater in San Diego, but I don’t see the skeletons that often.
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Urchin Skeleton
I pick up a few of these every week diving in San Diego. A good portion of the time, I forget about them in my drysuit pocket and they get crushed (they’re surprisingly fragile), but every once in a while they escape harm and make it home.
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I didn’t do it
Looking guilty in the strawberries. Update 1/14/2014: Want to see more of Carat (“Peepers”)? She is now the star of her very own blog at www.bostonterrierproblems.com