SF Bay baylands, shot from a Southwest Airlines flight after having just taken off from San Jose. I’m a sucker for the colors and patterns. More about the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge Environmental Education Center.
More Aerial Shots
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Mar 112010
Sea Anemone Macro Shots
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Jan 312010
I spent the late afternoon at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve near Half Moon Bay, CA. The tidepools are locally famous, and there was a very low tide at 5:30pm today – right about sunset. I thought I could get some nice tidepool creature shots and a Pacific Ocean sunset all in one trip. The sunset was [...]
Snow Ranch LUNAR Rocket Launch
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Jan 022010
For Eric’s day we went to the LUNAR monthly high-power rocket launch at Snow Ranch in the Sierra foothills. By being so far away from civilization they can get clearance to go to 15,000 feet. Today had a low ceiling, so there were only a few opportunities for the high-power engines. The rocket in the [...]
The USS Hornet
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Dec 302009
Every year between Christmas and New Years we do ‘Family Days’ where each member of the family is responsible for a day’s schedule. For my day we went to the USS Hornet, a retired aircraft carrier moored in Alameda. We spent about four hours on board touring the ship – which wasn’t enough to see [...]
21st
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Dec 242009
Eric turned 21 in early November and we went back east to celebrate with him for a weekend. We took a road trip up to Maine to collect another state for everyone, and stopped at the lighthouse in Cape Elizabeth, by Portland, ME. This picture of the boys is being used on our Christmas card [...]
Shadow Play
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Dec 072009
Taken at Santa Clara University in the late afternoon.
The Zeppelin – Again!
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Sep 272009
Teaching has its definite perks. We took our CMU ETC students on a field trip to learn more about the Bay Area – and how better than from a couple thousand feet overhead. Airship Ventures to the rescue! We took off from Oakland, headed over the Bay Bridge, past SF, around Angel Island and back [...]
Salinas Air Show
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Aug 092009
We hit the Salinas Air Show again this year. The Blue Angels closed the show – it’s always exciting to see them. Also present were some great vintage planes, like the P-51 Mustang, wingwalkers, the A10 Warthog (my favorite) and of course Robosaurus eating up some cars. You can see the full set on Flickr. [...]
