Monthly Archives: October 2012

Fog City

The breath of the Pacific I linked up with a fellow photographer from Chicago to make a few images of the bridge. Check out some of Chance’s work here. Hot weather in the Bay Area this weekend meant a spectacular marine layer over the bridge. I had intended to make Marshall Beach but, as I...

The Breath of the Pacific

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Pines in the clouds

Here is my previous post from Rainier. Rainier. We descended through clouds that rose from the lip of the Pacific as a portent of the tempest to come. We drove through twilight and storm and awoke to wet roads. We hiked through the very heart of the clouds we’d flown through the night before. If...

Pines in the Clouds—Mount Rainier National Park

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Resplendent vapor

I last posted about the incredible light show atop Marin and promised photographs of the sunrise—and here they are! We climbed the dirt path through fragrant scrubland in near darkness, short of breath and mistaking the higher ridge lines for cloud banks. I hoped to see the upper reaches of the city and the Golden...

Resplendent Vapor

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Fogbows and the Spectre of the Brocken

A light show on Marin’s shoulder. My sister-in-law and her husband visited this past month and, as they needed a ride to the airport and I wanted to see sunrise over the clouds, we ascended the ridge above Spencer Battery wet and weary. The crescent moon was supposed to be visible over the city just...

Fogbows and the Spectre of the Brocken

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