The Drive to Ione

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Abandoned for Now - Large Format Slideshow Test

On-Demand MDLs for the Environmental Laboratory

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Castle Lake Reunion 2007 - 50 Years

The Castle Lake Research Group reunion - a celebration of 50 years of limnological research and integrative investigations of freshwater lakes beginning in 1959 when Dr. Charles Goldman cut a hole in the ice at Castle Lake. More at caes.ucdavis.edu/NewsEvents/News/WebNews /jun_castle.htm

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Yesterday's Station

Abandoned For Now

Built in 1912 and abandoned in 1989 after the Loma Prieta earthquake, the Wood Street Train Station stands in silence waiting for restoration as part of the plans for redevelopment of this area of Oakland.

From the
LANDMARKS PRESERVATION ADVISORY BOARD
OAKLAND, CA
February 28, 2005 SPECIAL MEETING

Wood Street Development Project

Staff reported on the Wood Street Train Station's eligibility for the National Register and possible 20% investment tax credits.
three conditions that BUILD agrees to, as follows:
1) No demolition or removal of the baggage wing and the northern section of the elevated tracks will occur prior to the issuance of a building permit for Development Area 6.

2) No demolition or removal of the southern tip of the elevated tracks will occur prior to issuance of a building permit for Development Area 4.

3) No demolition of the portion of the train platform that is to be retained attached to the station until detailed plans for the restoration of the Main Hall of the station have been submitted and a financial plan presented.

Blue Angels

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Dr. Dan's Really Big Retirement - The Movie

High Dynamic Range Photoshop Tutorial

Dr. Dan's Really Big Retirement

Remembrances

My Backyard

My Backyard -

Roses of Sakai

Now abandoned, roses still grow in the former Sakai Brothers Nursery in Richmond, CA

How to Sell your Photos

Of course it helps if you have an audience. It also helps if they have money and want to use it to buy your stuff. Then you can - have your own webpage for sales - enter a competition - post on a sales site like this:

High Dynamic Range Photoshop Tutorial

A tutorial on using bracketed exposures and Photoshop to create High Dynamic Range images presented as a Flickr slideshow.  

A Raised Garden

It's been more than 10 years with no vegetable garden. You'd think with 2 acres there would be ample space to grow some veggies, but there are few spots with long stretches of sun. After the Bay tree came down, a bright spot appeared in Rebel's yard in front of the stable. Start with some 8x8s cut to suitable length to create a garden bed of some 20+ square feet. Then fill it with compost. I used weeds plus aged horse manure and a bit of dirt. Photos with the dirty gardener were shot using a tripod mounted camera with remote --- hence no gloves on the gardener.

Area overview





It starts with mixing cut weeds with some horse manure...the best stuff is under the stable.




Move it uphill ... nice exercise - sort of.