Absolutely fantastic photos, @Dougie D! I love San Francisco. Some years ago I lived in Oakland and worked in Berkeley and still have very fond memories of The Bay Area. It has been far too long since I've been there and your photos made me realize it's high time to start planning to go back. Hope you had a terrific trip!
Love the photos @Dougie D, especially the sea mist over Golden Gate, the mist had burnt off by the time we got there (see my earlier post #733 pg37). And got some just like your other photos, I wonder how many millions of times those scenes have been photographed in our digital age. So....I never got round to finishing the series I was posting from our West Coast tour, now you've prompted me to finish off with the last few SanFran shots before we flew home. The spiral escalators fascinated my engineering brain.
So that was our second US trip back in 2014, our first was some 15 years earlier when we "did" Big Sur, Monterey, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Teton, San Francisco. But back then I was still on film cameras, has anybody experience/recommendations for digitising old 35mm (and/or APS) colour and monochrome negatives? I have an oldish Epson V350 scanner but results were poor and horrendously slow.
It was somewhere in 1996 I believe when I visited San-Francisco as a kid. I would love to go back one day! Lovely pictures!
3 of my lurchers at Pembrey beach yesterday my 3 legged non pedigree whippet managing to dance on her 1 remaining front leg
@Sandi T they have the life of Riley, beach at least twice a week woods and forests the rest of the time. The three legged one is a stone cold killer so we have to keep her away from sheep and anything else fur or feather, she lost her leg 2 1/2 years ago chasing a pigeon over the edge of a 200+ feet quarry, the vets said "she won't survive the night" but they didn't know Bella, she's only a tiny bit slower and she's still trying to kill things.
Dave, your photo reminded me of this one from about a week ago when some of my family were in town. My brother and sister-in-law and I walked over to the local farmers market on Sunday morning and saw a woman walking around with this little guy in her arms. I asked her if I could take a photo and she said, "here, you hold him and I'll take a photo of you!" He'd been born just the day before. One of two and evidently the mama only wanted one--and it wasn't this cutie-pie.
Cute, Sandi. (Do American lambs all have floppy ears, or is it just that one?) I always wonder at how such fun loving little creatures grow up into stodgy great sheep. Our neighbouring farmer doesn't look after his sheep very well. Two years ago I had to dig out a half grown lamb that was stuck in the mud at the bottom of a narrow gully on the salt marsh before the tide could come in and drown it. It came out very muddy and ran to its mother, who had been watching anxiously all the time.
According to sheep farming friends, apparently "a sheep's main aim in life is to die, preferably in debt".
