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Photographs: San Francisco

Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, and Pilings

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Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, and Pilings

Yerba Buena Island, Bay Bridge, and Pilings. San Francisco, California. July 18, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

San Francisco Bay with Yerba Buena and Treasure Islands, Bay Bridge, and old pilings along The Embarcadero on the San Francisco waterfront. Photographed while walking along the Embarcadero on a July day.

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Photographs: Central California, Photographs: Nature

July Sky and Fence

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July Sky and Fence
July Sky and Fence. Central California. July 4, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A cloudy July sky over a hilltop fence line in Central California. While it might make a better story if I had made this photograph is some exotic place, I’m afraid that I saw this scene on an afternoon at a nearby place where I frequently hike. This is why I always carry my camera when I hike…

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Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Big Sur Coast Near Bixby Bridge

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Big Sur Coast Near Bixby Bridge
Big Sur Coast Near Bixby Bridge. Big Sur, California. June 8, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

Late spring morning on the Big Sur Coast near Bixby Bridge. I had just enough time to drive down to this point and back on a weekend morning when the sun was breaking through the coastal fog earlier than usual.

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Photographs: Ocean & Coast

Log and Blowing Sand, Drakes Beach

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Log and Blowing Sand, Drakes Beach
Log and Blowing Sand, Drakes Beach. Point Reyes National Seashore. June 1, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.

A log embedded in blowing sand at Drakes Beach, Point Reyes National Seashore.

It was tremendously windy on this visit to Point Reyes, and here the sand was streaming across the surface of the beach and straight out into the Bay.

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