California road trip

[trusty elf]

My daughter and I recently drove along the Pacific Coast highway from San Diego to San Francisco and back in a rented convertible. Having been away from home for longer stretches quite a lot in recent years, I felt the need to have a dad/daughter bonding experience. We had a marvelous time together in a magnificent part of the world.

Just wanted to share a few shots from the trip. I broke my camera before we went to Muir Woods! :-( I was thinking about replacing it anyway, but what a drag none the less!

Some ships in the San Diego harbor


On the road


Ragged Point Inn


Another Ragged Point shot


Coast just north of Ragged Point


Elephant Seals
It was amazing to be so close to these huge animals!


Lovely country road outside of Pescadero


Interesting sculpture


Driftwood


I let my (16 yr old) daughter drive the car out on a country road. Was I a bad dad? She was thrilled!


She also got to drive this on a friend's ranch.


Northern Cal. landscape


Daughter and I w/friends at Golden Gate

[MissHoneychurch]

1. Love the pictures

glad you and your daughter had some good time together. And the landscape .... I am jealous.

[trusty elf]

3. Thanks MissHoneychurch.

It really was a memorable trip. Wending our way slowly along the coastal highway with the top down was truly breathtaking. It could be rather chilly at times though when driving through some foggy stretches.


You must know that Mark Twain quote-" "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."

:hi:

[Mira]

2. Hi there! Have not "seen" you since you sent me the

Viennese "Riesenrad" which I still have on my desktop, and will for a long time.
It looks like you had a spectacular trip, what a beautiful landscape shown to us in perfect photos. Your daughter is all of that as well, it seems.
I have a screen print by Eyvind Earle, that depicts the ragged coast in 142 colors. So I live with that image all the time.
Thanks for posting these, they are just fabulous.

[trusty elf]

4. Hi Mira!

Thanks, you're very kind. It was a glorious trip, indeed.

It has been a while since last I posted here, it's true. I was sort of in hibernation.

I hope it won't be all too long before I can post photos here once again, because, as I mentioned, I broke my camera while staying at my friend's ranch in Pescadero! I was holding it too loosely alas, and the strap got hooked on the arm of a chair as I passed by, yanking it out of my hand. It hit the floor rather violently. I'm not sure what happened to it, but I fear it's ruined.

Have a look at this. Any idea what the problem could be?



I've been wanting to get a more serious camera for a while now anyway.

Liebe Grüße!

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:hi:

[Mira]

5. Keine Ahnung! No idea. I suggest you post it separately and ask the pros with

help request in the title.
You deserve any camera you want and can pay for, man, you take wonderful pictures, with a great eye.
I will post for you, later today, a shot of the serigraph I was talking about, it so captures what you are showing in another medium.
Sorry about your camera.
I kill cameras quite a bit. Last time I slammed one to smithereens when I fell at a waterfall. It was a "cheap" point and shoot.
:)
Nice to see you back here.
That is one beautiful girl you have!

[trusty elf]

6. Ok, I'll try asking the pros. Good idea.

Thanks for your kind words...

:pals:


I look forward to seeing your serigraph!

[Mira]

7. Here's the picture for you

It was a challenge because it is huge, and I needed to do it at an angle so the reflections in the glass are gone. What you see in the print is wisps of clouds in the sky. This is a screen print with more than 140 colors, all separately screened on. Eyvind Earle. He was a master. Died last year I think. A favorite artist in CA.



And no, the woman in the photo top right is NOT me, nor a relative. Photo of a Bulgarian woman.

[trusty elf]

14. Cool screen print Mira.

Thanks. I'll have to look him up on the intertubes.

Glad to know you're not related to that person in the picture on the wall! lol

[Mira]

16. Your shot of the road is my favorite in the bunch. Along with the mist and the

twists one really gets a feel for what being there must be like. Here is a link to the guy who photographed the woman (there is another one in the photo but not visible) Jacko Ivanov Vassilev.
A black and white photographer to study.

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=jacko+ivanov+vassilev&aq=f&oq=&aqi=&start=0

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. That last pic...how did you get the flying saucer in the shot?

Strange no one mentioned it.

Lovely drive, I have done it a few times. It is otherwordly to me, the water coming up to dy parched dusty land that way. And that mist in the summer. Most memorable, tho.

[Mira]

10. I saw the flying saucer and studied it carefully.

I thought I'd be safer if I did not comment on it.
You watch out Dixiegrrrrl, the greys are looking for you now.

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. Can't hear ya, Mira..there is some kinda weird cloud above the house.

[trusty elf]

12. I have no idea.

The damn thing seems to follow me wherever I go.

:D

:hi:

[Mira]

15. Now your freakin' me out. Serously, what is that? If we ever have a contest

called "Twilight zone" you would win it hands down with this one.

[trusty elf]

18. It's the Washington Monument being warped by aliens!

;-)

President Obama saw it too!

[hippywife]

9. Looks like you had a lovely

bonding excursion. And that skeleton thing is atrocious! Whoa! :scared:


:hi:

[trusty elf]

13. It was a delight from start to finish, hippywife.

The whole thing went very smoothly.

The skeleton is pretty strange, isn't it? Not exactly what I would chose to have outside of my house. Come to think of it, that house looks like it could be the scene of some horror movie....

I might tweak the house in photoshop to make it look more menacing. :evilgrin:

No, I'm sure it's all perfectly innocuous, with a wonderful "leave it to beaver" type family living there! :-)

:hi:

[Celebration]

17. the photo series

Is more than the sum of its parts, and its parts are great. When I feel as if I was there, I know you did a good job. The tanker picture in there added a lot to the series.

Your daughter will always remember this trip!

Sorry about your camera, but the Muir Woods seems boring compared to these pictures. Somehow, I think you would have found a way to make them really, really interesting.

With regard to the skeleton, I always thought we should have a contest entitled, "Huh???"