BLBC Green Progress 4/16/24
34 photos
A quick round of aerial views several weeks after our Spring plug and sand maintenance.
Pine Hill April 2024
18 photos
Chicken Ranch Beach April 2024
12 photos
BLBC Paving Repair 2024
38 photos
Progress photos on the repair of our asphalt sidewalk surrounding the green and the green itself after plugging and sanding.
BLBC Workday March 2024
59 photos
Photos from our annual drill and sand treatment of the bowling green. Work made possible by a fine crew of volunteers.
BLBC rain puddles Jan 24
27 photos
A quick post-rain survey of drainage on Berkeley's lawn bowling green. Photos are from a DJI Mini Pro 4.
Salt Ponds A19, A20, and A23 – December 2021
26 photos
Having eagerly awaited the end of nesting season and the resumption of my South Bay photography, it has proven a bit difficult to get back into photographic production. While the ongoing COVID-19...
KAP Cradle for Canon M6 Mk II - February 2021
15 photos
Background:
I have been flying a Canon M series mirrorless cameras as my principal kite aerial photography (KAP) gear since 2014. At last count, I had a little over 100 KAP sessions with rigs...
Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley, CA - March 2021
21 photos
This weekend, I returned to Cesar Chavez Park to continue testing my new transmitter and Canon M6 Mk II cradle. For this outing, I headed to the northern edge of the park where volunteer Marty...
Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley - February 2021
28 photos
Over the last few months, I have been on hiatus from South Bay photography as my Special Use Permit access has been on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, I have been working on building a...
Salt Ponds E11 and E13 – November 2009
29 photos
On one of the short days of November, I made my way out to take a look at the Archimedes wind pump ruins on the northeast corner of Salt Pond E10. This array of eight pumps must have been a sight...
The R Ponds at Ravenswood – December 2020
82 photos
These days I continue to make photographic hay while the permit sun is shining since additional Covid-19 lockdowns seem to be looming. The target for last weekend was the R Pond complex starting...
Dumbarton Point – December 2020
43 photos
By any measure 2020 has been a strange year. On the plus side, with vision restored I have been able to resume my aerial photography and the exploration of the South Bay. Of course, the South Bay...
Salt Ponds E10 and E11 – September 2020
38 photos
For this session, I had a Sutton 16 aloft in a fresh sea breeze. It was particularly nice to be in relatively clear air after a week dominated by wildfire smoke. I launched my camera cradle from the...
Salt Pond E6B – October 2020
40 photos
October 2020 was a tough month in a tough year. This was a season of record-breaking wildfires in California. Smoke was so pervasive that many folks, including myself, sheltered indoors on days when...
near the North Creek Managed Pond – October 2020
27 photos
This was a late-day session just west of the Eden Shores housing development. I have photographed this area a few times and have been drawn back by the colors and textures of what I believe are old...
Salt Ponds from E7 to E4C – October 2020
52 photos
This session is a continuation of my project to take baseline photographs of the current landscape in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve’s Phase II project area. This next phase of salt pond...
Salt Pond E2 Bay levee – October 2020
13 photos
This session is a repeat visit to the bayside levee of Salt Pond E2 in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER). Salt Pond E2, the largest pond in the Eden Landing complex, must have been an intake...
Salt Ponds E4, E5, E6C, and E7 – October 2020
43 photos
One of my projects this Fall is taking baseline photographs of the current landscape in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve’s Phase II project area. This next phase of salt pond restoration is...
A walk down Mt. Eden Creek – September 2020
35 photos
A walk down Mt. Eden Creek – September 2020
For this session, I had a Sutton 16 aloft in a fresh sea breeze. It was particularly nice to be in relatively clear air after a week dominated by...
Salt Ponds E8X and E9 – September 2020
41 photos
Having launched the kite (Sutton 30) at the eastern end of Salt Pond E8X, I walked the levee westward to the outflow of Salt Pond E9. This route placed Salt Pond E14, a dry pond bottom managed as...
Mt. Eden Creek Marsh – September 2020
25 photos
After a pleasant day photographing Salt Ponds E10 and E11, I stopped on my way out of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER) to photograph the stretch of Mt. Eden Creek Marsh that lies along the...
Salt Ponds E12 & E13 near sunset – September...
41 photos
Salt Ponds E12 & E13 near sunset – September 2020
I am delighted that I can now post some contemporary photographs. The conditions of my permits for South Bay kite aerial photography include a...
Salt Ponds E12 and E13 – September 2020
71 photos
I am delighted that I can now post some contemporary photographs. The conditions of my permits for South Bay kite aerial photography include a hiatus each year from the end of February to the start...
Coyote Hills and the N Ponds – June 2020
40 photos
During the summer of 2020 Covid-19 quarantine, we took a trip down to the Coyote Hills for a break. It was a particularly warm day, in the 90s, and the wind did not develop until midafternoon. It had...
KAP track logs
2 photos
Session maps from map feature of Lightroom
Marsh areas in eastern reaches of Mt. Eden Creek...
46 photos
When I started my South Bay project there were no eastern reaches of Mt. Eden Creek, the creek itself having been truncated by salt pond impoundments. Tidal flow ended near the historical site of...
Crystallizer Beds – October 2010
24 photos
During the early days of my South Bay photography, Cargill’s Newark salt plant and its surrounding crystallizer beds appeared on my map as terra incognita. From the beginning, I wanted to...
Crystallizer Bed Textures – October 2010
21 photos
During the early days of my South Bay photography, Cargill’s Newark salt plant and its surrounding crystallizer beds appeared on my map as terra incognita. From the beginning, I wanted to...
Cargill Salt Harvest – October 2010
31 photos
During the early days of my South Bay photography, Cargill’s Newark salt plant and its surrounding crystallizer beds appeared on my map as terra incognita. From the beginning, I wanted to...
Island Ponds – October 2010
53 photos
I continue to work on posting Flickr album summaries of some of my earlier salt pond sessions. This album contains images from October 31, 2010. I have been photographing the former salt ponds on...
Cargill Crystallizer Beds – November 2010
45 photos
During the early days of my South Bay photography, Cargill’s Newark salt plant and its surrounding crystallizer beds appeared on my map as terra incognita. From the beginning, I wanted to...
Cargill Salt Stacks – November 2010
35 photos
During the early days of my South Bay photography, Cargill’s Newark salt plant and its surrounding crystallizer beds appeared on my map as terra incognita. From the beginning, I wanted to...
Mouth of Mt. Eden Creek– August 2011
32 photos
Mt. Eden Creek meets the Bay proper between Whale Tail Marsh to the south and Salt Pond E10 to the north. For this session, I launched the kite from the north levee of the creek and flew out over the...
Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center – March...
17 photos
Back in 2011, I mounted a solo exhibition of my aerial photographs in the Hayward Shoreline Interpretive Center. The center, part of our fine East Bay Regional Park District, offers a very pleasant...
Mt. Eden Creek mudflat – August 2011
31 photos
As Mt. Eden Creek wanders past the Oliver Salt Works ruins on its way to the Bay it comes upon a large mudflat area between Salt Pond E10 to the north and E9 to the south. This mudflat is a curious...
Near Alviso Flat – September 2011
32 photos
I continue to work on posting Flickr album summaries of some of my earlier salt pond sessions. This album contains images from September 24, 2011. The day began with a hike out to the Weep, a small...
Salt Ponds A15, A13, and A12 – September 2011
39 photos
I continue to work on posting Flickr album summaries of some of my earlier salt pond sessions. This album contains images from September 24, 2011. The day began with a hike out to the Weep, a small...
Oliver Salt Works ruins – October 2011
96 photos
Viewing the disused salt ponds along Mt. Eden Creek from the ground yields the impression of barren flat fields embedded with a somewhat random scattering of ruins and artifacts. My first aerial...
Salt Pond E9 outlet under construction –...
19 photos
Salt Pond E9 sits on the western flank of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. One of the largest ponds in Eden Landing’s Phase 1 restoration, Salt Pond E9 was restored to tidal flow in 2011 when a...
Whale Tail Marsh and E1 – October 2011
34 photos
Over the years, I have been trying to take photographs of a particular area in the South Bay salt ponds and it has proved a difficult puzzle. The target is former Salt Pond E8A, which was returned to...
Island Ponds – April 2012
40 photos
I continue to work on posting Flickr album summaries of some of my earlier salt pond sessions. This album contains images from April 15, 2012. I have been photographing the former salt ponds on...
Bayfront Park, Menlo Park – May 2012
23 photos
Bayfront Park is Menlo Park’s former garbage dump. Like other former dumps around the Bay, it forms a peninsula into the former wetlands. It is an interesting park in that it is adjacent to former...
Salt Pond N1A and Dumbarton Marsh – July 2012
30 photos
Salt Pond N1A was the first salt pond I ever visited. Located immediately west of the southernmost Coyote Hill, N1A is shaped by the winding course of Newark Slough. This is the pond you see from the...
Salt Pond N1A and Dumbarton Marsh – July 2012
32 photos
Salt Pond N1A was the first salt pond I ever visited. Located immediately west of the southernmost Coyote Hill, N1A is shaped by the winding course of Newark Slough. This is the pond you see from the...
near Salt Pond DP1 – July 2012
26 photos
Salt Pond N1A was the first salt pond I ever visited. Located immediately west of the southernmost Coyote Hill, N1A is shaped by the winding course of Newark Slough. This is the pond you see from the...
Mt. Eden Creek Marsh and North Creek Marsh –...
35 photos
When I started my South Bay project there were no eastern reaches of Mt. Eden Creek, the creek itself having been truncated by salt pond impoundments. Tidal flow ended near the historical site of...
Salt Ponds A22 and A23 – September 2012
31 photos
Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not regularly connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high load of residual salt. I can always count on...
Salt Ponds A21, A22 and A23 – November 2012
31 photos
This session started out with a visit to the northeast corner of Salt Pond A21 where I have been taking a series of photographs documenting that pond’s progress since its connection to the tides in...
Salt Pond A16 and New Chicago Marsh – April 2013
33 photos
Earlier on this day, I photographed Salt Pond A17, a pond recently connected to the tides. Poor planning on my part, arriving at high tide, made that exercise less interesting than I had hoped. So, I...
Whale Tail Marsh and E1 – December 2013
29 photos
For this session, I returned to the end of the south levee of the Old Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel. This ends where the Whale Tail Marsh provides a buffer between Salt Pond E1 and the natural...
Salt Ponds A17 and A16 at high tide – April 2013
30 photos
These photographs were taken during my first session at former Salt Pond A17. My visit was occasioned by a desire to photograph the recently breached salt pond before nesting season put it off-limits...
Whale Tail Marsh and E1 – December 2013
20 photos
For this session we drove to the end of the south levee of the Old Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel. This ends where the Whale Tail Marsh provides a buffer between Salt Pond E1 and the natural bay...
Bayfront Park, Menlo Park – April 2017
12 photos
Bayfront Park is Menlo Park’s former garbage dump. Like other former dumps around the Bay, it forms a peninsula into the former wetlands. It is an interesting park in that it is adjacent to former...
Alviso - April 2013
29 photos
Alviso is a small community within the City of San Jose that has an interesting history. In the mid-19th Century, it served as the main port of San Jose. This was a nautical era when passengers...
Former Salt Pond A17 – April 2013
31 photos
These photographs were taken during a third consecutive session at former Salt Pond A17. My return was occasioned by a desire to photograph the recently breached salt pond before nesting season put...
Dumbarton Point – April 2013
25 photos
This session captured photographs at Dumbarton Point from the levee that separates Salt Pond N3 from South San Francisco Bay. Dumbarton Point is the eastern side of a constriction in the width of the...
March and ponds in eastern reaches of ELER -...
35 photos
When I started my South Bay project there were no eastern reaches of Mt. Eden Creek, the creek itself having been truncated by salt pond impoundments. Tidal flow ended near the historical site of...
Eden Landing near Salt Ponds E8X and E9 –...
41 photos
This session started with a kite launch at the eastern end of Salt Pond E8X and captured images from a couple of hundred feet up as I walked the levee between E9 and E14. This territory falls within...
Former Salt Pond E6B – September 2014
38 photos
On the occasion of the Autumnal Equinox, I made a trip down to former Salt Pond E6B. This large pond, just west of Union City, is located in the first phase of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve...
Alvarado Salt Works site – September 2014
25 photos
My last stop on this Autumnal Equinox KAP outing was the site of the nineteenth century Alvarado Salt Works. This ruin of old pilings and debris was once a bustling boat landing that shipped produce...
Eden Landing near Salt Ponds E8X and E9 –...
40 photos
This session started with a kite launch at the eastern end of Salt Pond E8X and captured images from a couple of hundred feet up as I walked the levee between E9 and E14. This territory falls within...
Alameda Creek and the ExC Ponds – April 2014
28 photos
This session involved a hike along the north levee of the Alameda Creek Flood Control Channel out to the southern edge of what is now Phase II at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. My idea for the...
Station Island ponds - March 2015
38 photos
I continue to work on posting Flickr album summaries of some of my earlier salt pond sessions. This album contains images from March 1, 2015 and represents the last photographs from that season as my...
Former duck ponds near Eden Shores - November 2014
28 photos
In November 2014, I made a return trip to the Eden Shores development, an area I photographed in 2010 and 2011. Eden Shores is a relatively new housing development that was enabled by the...
Marsh areas in eastern reaches of Mt. Eden Creek ...
46 photos
When I started my South Bay project there were no eastern reaches of Mt. Eden Creek, the creek itself having been truncated by salt pond impoundments. Tidal flow ended near the historical site of...
Bayfront Park and R Ponds, Menlo Park –...
28 photos
Bayfront Park is one few places accessible to the public that exhibits the more exuberant salt pond colors. While the ponds to the south of the park have been out of salt production for years there...
San Francisco Pier 94 - July 2020
31 photos
Back in 2012, I took a set of photographs covering a habitat restoration site for the Golden Gate Audubon Society. The site, named Pier 94 after a project that was never built, is a small stretch of...
Alviso Complex Ponds – May 2015
34 photos
For years now, microbiologist Wayne Lanier and I have hiked from Alviso’s Marina County Park north along the salt pond levees to visit a site we call the Weep (see...
Station Island – February 2016
35 photos
I have been photographing the former salt ponds on Station Island since 2008 or so. That start was just two years after the southern levees of Salt Ponds A20 and A21 were breached to allow what was...
Eden Landing near Salt Ponds E6 & E7 –...
35 photos
This session began on the south levee of the Old Alameda Creek flood control channel near the Union Sanitary District treatment plant. I ended up at one of my favorite old ruins – the Alvarado Salt...
Eden Landing near Salt Ponds E5 & E6C –...
31 photos
Spring is upon us and with it the come restrictions to my kite flying over the salt ponds. This is a time when species of concern in the South Bay – Snowy Plovers, Ridgeway Rails, Least Terns –...
Eden Landing near Salt Pond E8 – October 2016
36 photos
Salt Pond E8 lies along the southern edge of the Phase I restoration project in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. From looking at Google Earth photographs it appears the pond was used for salt...
Eden Landing near the outlet of Salt Pond E9 –...
34 photos
Salt Pond E9 sits on the western flank of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. One of the largest ponds in Eden Landing’s Phase 1 restoration, Salt Pond E9 was restored to tidal flow in 2011 when a...
Salt Pond A23 - March 2020
34 photos
Salt Pond A23 is a disused salt pond located just north of Station Island. The pond, which is not connected to tidal flow, has a relatively high level of residual salt. I can always count on A23 to...
Salt Ponds A19 and A20 - March 2020
33 photos
Around the start of the year, as I started photographing the South Bay salt ponds again, I had a meeting with the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project management team. In the meeting we put...
West of Turk Island – February 2020
29 photos
I am continuing my efforts to cover the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve Phase 2 project area before major restoration efforts get underway. The Phase 2 restoration involves 11 former salt ponds...
Around Salt Pond E6C - February 2020
31 photos
I continue to work on getting some baseline images of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve Phase 2 project area before the bird nesting season leads to a temporary hiatus in kite flying. On this...
Alvarado Salt Works – February 2020
31 photos
My last stop on a pleasant Saturday KAP outing was the site of the nineteenth century Alvarado Salt Works. This ruin of old pilings and debris was once a bustling boat landing that shipped produce...
Bayfront Park, Menlo Park - August 2014
38 photos
Bayfront Park is one few places accessible to the public that exhibits the more exuberant salt pond colors. While the ponds to the south of the park have been out of salt production for years there...
Drawbridge and the Island Ponds - August 2017
44 photos
I have been photographing the former salt ponds on Station Island since 2008 or so. That start was just two years after the southern levees of Salt Ponds A20 and A21 were breached to allow what was...
near Salt Pond A19 - February 2020
36 photos
For a couple of years now, my friends at the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project have asked if I could take aerial photographs of former Salt Pond A19. This pond is east of the Drawbridge ghost...
near Eden Shores housing development - January...
31 photos
In January 2020, I made a return trip to the Eden Shores development, an area I photographed in 2010 and 2011. Eden Shores is a relatively new housing development that was enabled by the construction...
La Riviere Marsh - September 2017
29 photos
In September 2017, I made a trip down to the Coyote Hills to photograph a bridge replacement project on Marshlands Road. This session included photographs of the La Riviere Marsh restoration project,...
Around Salt Pond CP3C - January 2020
33 photos
As I return to photographing the South Bay salt ponds, one of my priorities is documenting the progress of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. This involves revisiting areas that I...
Around Salt Ponds E12 and E13 - January 2020
35 photos
I am starting a new round of photography in South San Francisco Bay as part of an effort to document the progress of the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project. This set of photographs was taken in...
Levee between Salt Ponds E9 and E14 - January 2020
15 photos
With my vision issues resolved, I have started taking photographs in the South Bay again. This set was taken in very low winds along the western stretch of the levee that separates former Salt Pond...
San Francisco Lawn Bowling Club - September 2019
24 photos
On the occasion of the 2019 National Championships.
San Francisco Lawn Bowling Club - April 2019
19 photos
These are photographs extracted from the spherical image captured by an Insta360 One X panoramic camera. This is my first outing with the camera, which I have mounted atop a 33-foot-tall carp fishing...
Eden Landing - September 2016
40 photos
Having been on a bit of a hiatus from my South Bay work it was fun to head out last week for photographs in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER). This was my first visit to photograph since...
Cutoff creek channels - August 2014
12 photos
A creek (once) ran through it
As Bay Area Creeks go, Alameda Creek is rather large. It drains a watershed of around 700 square miles the bulk of which lies east of Niles Canyon out toward Livermore,...
Salt Pond E6C - November 2014
36 photos
The first phase of South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (SBSPRP) work in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER) played out between the San Mateo Bridge approach to the north and the Old...
Salt Pond E2 - October 2014
17 photos
In the kick-off briefing session for this year’s round of photographs, the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project (SBSPRP) management team expressed interest in coverage of the bay edge of Salt...
Color and texture near the Oliver Salt Works...
26 photos
Last Sunday I headed out to ELER with the idea of taking some follow up color and texture shots of the shallow waters in the newly reconfigured Salt Pond E12 complex. On arriving I found these ponds...
Construction at the Oliver Salt Works site -...
30 photos
As the Phase I restoration activities wind down at the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve (ELER) the day approaches when areas of the reserve will be open to the public. The plans have long called for...
Battery Mendell - October 2014
19 photos
On a fine early October afternoon I met journalist Wayne Freedman out at Battery Mendell in the Marin headlands to do a video interview. It is always fun to watch a pro at work so the afternoon...
Eden Landing Redux - September 2014
32 photos
Go back 150 years or so and Eden Landing held a prominent place in the East Bay cultural landscape. Here topography and entrepreneurship combined to provide a boat landing on Mt. Eden Creek that...
Union Sanitary District Treatment Plant -...
7 photos
As I begin a new season of photography in South San Francisco Bay I have a list of a couple dozen subjects to visit. Some of these are new requests and some are locations that I photographed in...
Salt Ponds E12 & E13 revised - September 2014
50 photos
The days grow shorter as summer draws to an end. This must come as something of a relief to the Snowy Plovers, Terns, Avocets, and other bayland birds as it marks the end of their long nesting...
Tennessee Point, Marin Headlands - August 2014
26 photos
After a pleasant day lawn bowling at the venerable SFLBC in Golden Gate Park, Claudia and I made our way out to the Marin Headlands through bumper-to-bumper Labor Day traffic. We were welcomed by a...
Marin Headlands, Wolf Ridge - July 2012
21 photos
Wolf Ridge, a rugged spine of coastal grassland and low chaparral, is the divide between the Rodeo and Tennessee Valleys in the Marin Headlands. In the years leading to World War II the "1937...
Batteries Smith-Guthrie and O'Rorke - July 2014
25 photos
On an overcast Sunday afternoon Claudia and I headed out to the Marin Headlands for the Headland Center for the Arts Summer Open House (always fun.) After touring the studios and a tasty lunch in the...
Salt Pond A21 - July 2014
41 photos
I have been photographing Salt Pond A21 since 2006. This was the year that Salt Pond A21 and its neighbor, Salt Pond A20, were returned to tidal flow. The two ponds flank the abandoned hamlet of...
Drawbridge, CA - July 2014
26 photos
In July 2014 I made my way out to Drawbridge for the first photography session since December 2012. It was fun to be out there again. The vegetation in Salt Pond A21 has really expanded in recent...
Marin Headlands, Fort Barry - April 2014
21 photos
Before 1900, San Francisco’s coastal defenses were concentrated abreast, and just inside, the current day location of the Golden Gate Bridge. This is the narrowest part of the Golden Gate Straight....
Marin Headlands, Battery Wallace - April 2014
25 photos
Generally speaking the defense works at the Golden Gate had relatively short working lives. As new naval capacities were developed, shore batteries became obsolete or were reformulated to make them...
Marin Headlands, Three Sisters - April 2014
13 photos
As the 20th Century began Fort Barry underwent quite a build out with construction of troop barracks, officer’s quarters, command posts, and supporting facilities for the Marin Headland’s...
Mt. Diablo Summit - April 2014
15 photos
On a pleasant weekend in late April the Mt. Diablo State Park held a celebration. The occasion marked the 150th anniversary of the California State Park System and the 40th anniversary of the Mt....
Marin Headlands, Point Bonita - March 2014
20 photos
Pt. Bonita stands guard on the northern flank of the Golden Gate Straight. For well over a century lighthouse keepers, military spotters, rescue crews, and navigation aids have occupied these...
Solar Calendar - February 2014
16 photos
I had the new EOS M cradle aloft for the first time today.
The maiden flight took place late this afternoon at Cesar Chavev Park along Berkeley's San Francisco Bay waterfront. I often test equipment...
KAP Cradle No. 12, Canon EOS M - February 2014
25 photos
I have been flying a Canon Rebel dSLR as my principal (and darn near exclusive) kite aerial photography (KAP) rig since July 2007. At last count I had a little over 250 KAP sessions with this rig...
Alviso Flat - January 2014
36 photos
Alviso Flat lies just a hundred yards north of the Alviso Marina County Park. Situated just west of the 1880 South Coast Pacific railroad grade, the flat is a widening of the ditch flanking the rail...
Slideshow for Tinkering Studio - September 2013
66 photos
I am most pleased to have a small section in the cabinet of curiosities at the Exploratorium's Tinkering Studio. There on display are various bits and pieces of my 2003 VLCKR (very low coast KAP rig)...
Hydroseeding the E14 levee - November 2013
24 photos
In November 2013, Save the Bay began field work on a project to establish vegetation of the levee separating Salt Pond 14 to the north and Salt Ponds E8X and E9 to the south. This levee has a major...
Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club turf assessment -...
9 photos
This set contains images from a quick and dirty exercise to stitch a mosaic of the Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club green. The end result is a bit sketchy (imperfections abound) but it does its job in...
Salt Pond E12 construction - October 2013
52 photos
With the arrival of fall the nesting season is over and I am allowed to photograph in the South Bay again. This year I received a request to photograph a construction project that is subdividing Salt...
Exploratorium Camera Obscura Project - August 2013
65 photos
This informal set of photographs captures various stages of a project to rebuild a camera obscure originally made by Peter Drew in England. The apparatus is slated for installation in a new,...
Eden Landing Ecological Reserve - October 2013
47 photos
In late October 2013 I made a trip out to the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to take photographs documenting the levee between Salt Ponds E9 and E14 before Save the Bay starts a project to establish...
La Riviere Marsh - April 2013
14 photos
On a pleasant Sunday morning I headed down to the Visitor Center for the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge to join a field workshop led by microbiologist Wayne Lanier, my...
Salt Pond A17 - April 2013
39 photos
After a four-month hiatus I have resumed my kite aerial photography in the South Bay. The short days of winter were devoted to work on my book about the South Bay and a variety of little, barking...
Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club - April 2013
43 photos
For the last few months I have been trying my hand at lawn bowling. It proves an interesting game – easy enough to get the basics but ample nuance to fuel years of practice and refinement. The...
Exploratorium exhibit - April 2013
9 photos
For the last forty years or so the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s venerable science museum, occupied the Palace of Fine Arts, a cavernous Beaux Arts building that served as the centerpiece of the...
Hill 640 Military Reservation - July 2012
38 photos
As coastal artillery guns became larger, and their range increased, growing demands were placed on the fire control systems that targeted potential naval targets. By World War II the 16” guns of...
Moving 16" gun to Battery Townsley - October 2012
38 photos
On October 1, 2012 I spent an interesting day out at the Marin Headlands watching the ingenious riggers of the Bigge Crane & Rigging Company move a 16” gun up the hill to Battery Townsley. ...
16" gun at Rodeo Beach - October 2012
12 photos
On October 1, 2012 I spent an interesting day out at the Marin Headlands watching the ingenious riggers of the Bigge Crane & Rigging Company move a 16” gun up the hill to Battery Townsley. ...
Battery Townsley - August 2012
40 photos
In the late 1930s, with war already underway in Spain and China, global tensions were building steadily. In the United States, strategists called for a modernization of our long neglected coastal...
Marin Headlands, Batteries Rathbone and McIndoe,...
44 photos
Batteries Rathbone and McIndoe (essentially one battery) are similar in many ways to their Ft. Barry neighbors Batteries Smith and Guthrie. Both sites are late Endicott period projects that served...
Marin Headlands, Battery O'Rorke , Ft. Barry -...
13 photos
In retrospect, it seems the useful life of any particular coastal battery, at least as state-of-the-art defense, was quite limited. Those designing a defense strategy faced regular advances in the...
Marin Headlands, Battery Smith-Guthrie, Ft. Barry...
29 photos
Battery Smith-Guthrie, located in the outer reaches of the Marin Headlands, is one of the last of the San Francisco Endicott-era installations. It was situated to have direct lines of fire covering...
Battery Chamberlin, Ft. Winfield Scott - August...
37 photos
Located on the north end of San Francisco’s Baker Beach at just 45 feet above sea level, this battery was built during the latter part of San Francisco’s Endicott period construction program....
San Francisco Pier 94 Revisited - August 2012
37 photos
Last Friday I got a chance to reshoot the Pier 94 site I had visited week or so ago. In that original session I had struggled a bit with cloudy skies, inconsistent and turbulent winds, and a couple...
San Francisco Pier 94 - August 2012
14 photos
Up until the late 19th Century the Islais Creek basin on San Francisco’s southern coast was an impressive tidal marsh. Then the exuberant application of explosives, steam, and later diesel power...
Salt Pond N1 and the Don Edwards HQ - June 2012
44 photos
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of meeting Scott White, a Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of South Carolina. Scott was interested in trying kite or balloon photography to do...
Pigeon Point Lighthouse - May 2012
17 photos
On a fine Saturday afternoon Claudia and I found ourselves at the Pigeon Point Lighthouse on the San Mateo coastline. I have taken aerials here on several occasions. The lighthouse is impressive -...
Mallard II at Beard's Creek - April 2012
17 photos
A few weeks ago I took my Documentary Photography class down to the salt ponds for a field trip. After poking around La Riviere Marsh, the Red Hill Gravel Quarry and the Coyote Hills we headed out to...
The Weep - February 2012
11 photos
Ground level images from a walk out to the Weep during a VS186A Documentary Photography field trip. The Weep was quite wet and sassy with the largest expanse of Codium yet.
Burningvan - January 2012
19 photos
These are kite aerial photographs from an impromptu gathering of Volkswagen van owners at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It was great fun seeing Westfalias, Syncros, Dokas and meeting the friendly...
Cuddeback Lake, CLUI - January 2012
49 photos
In early January 2012, the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) hosted a gathering of folks who take low altitude photographs using unconventional means. I drove the Westfalia down from...
Salt Pond A23 and Drawbridge - October 2011
27 photos
In late October 2011, Claudia and I spent a nice Sunday afternoon down near Drawbridge. The mission of the day was adding another image to my Salt Pond A21 vegetation series....
LEAP Sandcastle Contest - October 2011
17 photos
These are aerial photographs of the annual LEAP Sandcastle Contest held on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. This event, now in its 28th year, pairs design and construction firms with teams of youth from...
Salt Ponds A6 & A8 - August 2011
34 photos
To celebrate completion of the first week of my Fall Semester I made a late Friday trip down to Alviso to check out Salt Ponds A6 and A8. These ponds lie just west of Alviso and have been opened to...
Bayfront Park, Menlo Park - August 2011
33 photos
Claudia and I spent a pleasant Sunday afternoon this week at Bayfront Park in Menlo Park. As it turns out I was at least the third kite aerial photographer to visit the southwest corner of the park...
Salt Ponds E13 and E14 - August 2011
48 photos
I returned to the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve to walk the new levee separating Salt Pond E13 to the north from Salt Pond E14 to the south. While there has been a levee in this location for a long...
Salt Ponds E8X, E9 and E14 - August 2011
67 photos
I have had several pleasant trips this week down to the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve just below the San Mateo Bridge in South San Francisco Bay. This series of photographs was taken while hiking...
New Chicago Marsh - August 2011
39 photos
On Saturday August 13, I offered an Introduction to KAP Workshop at the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge’s Environmental Education Center in Alviso. The center runs an interesting set of events, without...
Eden Landing muted marsh area - August 2011
52 photos
This set contains images from a pleasant Sunday afternoon poking around the muted marshes, ponds, and former ponds at the eastern end of the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve. The session was prompted...
Eden Landing Ecological Reserve - August 2011
58 photos
These photographs mark the first KAP session under my 2011-2012 salt pond permits. I have just recently completed my status report from last year and, more importantly, the nesting season is winding...
Pt. Cabrillo Light Station - July 2011
17 photos
Images from a quick visit to the Pt. Cabrillo lighthouse located just north of Mendocino, California. The light has been restored to operation and houses a fine exhibit on the ground floor. You can...
Drawbridge, California - June 2011
25 photos
Afforded a break in our late Spring rains. I made a trip out to Drawbridge to check on the sedimentation in Ponds A20 and A21. I also wanted to grab another aerial for my time series view of A21. It...
Warm Springs Vernal Pool Hike - April 2011
52 photos
In mid-April 2011, Ivette Loredo of the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland hosted a hike out to the vernal pools, a closed part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.. Claudia and I welcomed the...
Dumbarton Point Field Trip - April 2011
11 photos
In early April my VS186A: Documentary Photography class took a pleasant field trip out to Dumbarton Point in South San Francisco Bay. After our hike was finished some students had to head back to...
Alviso Field Trip - February 2011
22 photos
Images from a visit to the Weep site just north of Alviso, California by participants in my Spring Semester course Visual Studies 186A: Documentary Photography, which focuses on the South Bay. It was...
Burningvan - January 2011
14 photos
These are pole aerial photographs from an impromptu gathering of Volkswagen van owners at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. It was great fun seeing Westfalias, Syncros, Dokas and meeting the friendly...
KAP Rig No. 11, Sony NEX-5 - January 2011
26 photos
I have been flying a Canon Rebel dSLR as my principal (and darn near exclusive) kite aerial photography (KAP) rig since July 2007. I really like working with the smaller Canon dSLR cameras. They are...
Ford Assembly Building - December 2010
16 photos
I stopped by the restored Ford Assembly Building the other day to shoot another round of aerials. I remain quite fond of this Albert Kahn design for a 500,000 ft2 building that predates fluorescent...
Trona Dunes - October 2010
24 photos
While visiting Ridgecrest, California to take a look at the Searles Lake Gem-O-Rama event Claudia and I were privileged to spend some time hiking with Jane McEwan and Don Peterson. Over a three-day...
Searles Lake Gem-O-Rama - October 2010
47 photos
For over 65 years the Searles Lake Gem & Mineral Society has hosted its Gem-O-Rama – an interesting event that allows collectors to prospect for a few hours in normally closed areas of the...
LEAP Sandcastle Contest - October 2010
43 photos
These are pole aerial photographs of the annual LEAP Sandcastle Contest held on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. This event, now in its 27th year, pairs design and construction firms with teams of youth...
LEAP Sandcastle Contest - October 2010
37 photos
We have made it to October and that means it is time for the annual LEAP Sandcastle Contest held on Ocean Beach in San Francisco. This event, now in its 27th year, pairs design and construction...
New Chicago Marsh - September 2010
39 photos
After an afternoon meeting in San Jose I stopped by the Environmental Education center in Alviso for a quick walk and round of photographs. The Sutton 30 provided ample pull in a steady breeze to...
Bay Area Cobra Club - September 2010
12 photos
I went out to the Marin Headlands this afternoon hoping that our grey, sullen skies would clear – they didn’t. I did have the pleasure of bumping into the Bay Area Cobra Club as they were parked...
Colors, lines, & textures at Eden Landing -...
39 photos
The Snowy Plovers and other South Bay birds have finished this season’s reproductive antics and I am now able to venture forth into the Eden Landing Ecological Preserve. I was out on Sunday and...
Salt Pond SF2 at high tide - August 2010
51 photos
Salt Pond SF2 lies just south of the western approach to the Dumbarton Bridge in South San Francisco Bay. It is one of three early initiatives in the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project to...
Salt Pond A8 - August 2010
49 photos
Salt Pond A8 is an interesting complex just west of Alviso Slough and the town of Alviso proper. This large salt pond contains the remnants of several small salt ponds and, as far as I can tell, has...
Flow control structure, Salt Pond A8 - August 2010
21 photos
This construction site is work in progress on an armored tidal flow control gate that will connect Salt Pond A8 to Alviso Slough. Once complete, the salt pond will be restored to tidal flow. The...
Knapp Tract - August 2010
119 photos
Background
The Knapp Tract (Salt Pond A6) has been kept dry (except for rain water) for a while now. Over the last several years it has been the breeding ground for a colony of California Gulls - on...
Pole aerial photography gear - July 2010
14 photos
A few images of the equipment I use to take aerial photographs from handheld poles.
Berkeley Skate Park - July 2010
18 photos
Over the weekend I worked out a new wireless video downlink for my pole aerial photography rig. Late Sunday I made a stop by the Berkeley Skate Park at Harrison Park. It was fun shooting the young...
Mendocino Headlands - June 2010
22 photos
Mendocino under grey skies - June 2010
32 photos
Eden Shores, Hayward, California - July 2010
23 photos
After a meeting at the Hayward Regional Shoreline Interpretive Center I made a visit to the Eden Shores development. Eden Shores in a new mixed-use development by Legacy Partners that contains over...
China Camp State Park - July 2010
21 photos
On the 4th of July Claudia and I visited China Camp State Park for a late day picnic. Later in the afternoon, after the holiday crown had thinned out, I pulled out my six-foot Rokkaku to test the...
Italian Street Painting Festival, San Rafael -...
92 photos
Each year since 1994 the Youth in Arts Program of Marin County has hosted an Italian Street Painting Festival in San Rafael, California. It is a lively event in which 200 chalk artists – modern day...
Drawbridge - May 2010
62 photos
Background:
On the day after Maker Faire, Dave Wheeler and I went out to Drawbridge for a round of aerial photographs. It was a bit of a strange day (as befits our strange Spring) with very light...
Raygun Gothic Rocketship - May 2010
19 photos
From Burning Man to Maker Faire and now to you - the Raygun Gothic Spaceship, an installation by by Sean Orlando, Nathaniel Taylor, David Shulman, John Manyjohns.- and many more. From their WWW site:...
Maker Faire - May 2010
42 photos
Scenes from the 2010 Maker Faire in San Mateo. These are images taken by mounting a Panasonic LX3 atop hand-held, 29-foot and 35-foot, carbon-fiber Carp fishing poles. The camera is triggered by a...
Warm Springs - May 2010
45 photos
What a treat. Yesterday I got a chance to visit and photograph the Warm Springs Seasonal Wetland, which is a closed part of the Don Edwards National Wildlife Refuge.
For a number of years now I have...
(re)Opening of Oakland Museum - May 2010
60 photos
On Saturday, 1 May 2010, my son Charlie and I took pole aerial photographs during the daylong reopening of the Oakland Museum of California. The original building, an interesting complex designed by...
Near Salt Pond E4C - February 2010
14 photos
Kite aerial photographs taken during a walk from near Turk Island back to the site of Old Alvarado.
Wilbur Hot Springs - March 2010
26 photos
Images taken during a visit to the ever pleasant Wilbur Hot Springs preserve in Colusa County. These are pole aerial photographs taken by placing a camera atop a 35-foot-tall carp fishing pole.
Alviso Weep from ground - April 2010
17 photos
Photographs taken under threatening skies at the Alviso Weep. This was my first visit to the Weep in six months and I found it in fine shape. While the trend during visits in 2009 was decidedly dry,...
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40 photos
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KAP Cradle No. 10, Canon xTi - February 2010
15 photos
I have been flying a Canon 400D dSLR as my principal (and darn near exclusive) KAP rig for over two years now. Checking my log it has been aloft in 114 KAP sessions since July 2007. As it turns out I...
Pedestrian bridge over I-880 - February 2010
19 photos
Built in 2002, this pedestrian bridge allows Berkeleyans to cross the ever busy !-880 freeway and continue to the waterfront. I am fond of the bridge design - attributed to engineer Mark Ketchum --...
Salt Pond A23 - December 2009
20 photos
As I finished up a meeting at the Alviso Environmental Education Center (EEC) there were a couple of hours of daylight left in the short December afternoon. There were so many birds around the EEC...
Codornices Creek - August 2008
34 photos
Session No. 11 in a episodic documentation of the Lower Codornices Creek project along the border separating Berkeley and Albany, California.
Dumbarton Cutoff Line - November 2009
45 photos
I used one of the short sunny Saturdays afforded by our winter to hike again out to the old swing bridge that served the now defunct Dumbarton Cutoff Line. Built in 1909 as a shortcut between Newark...
Codornices Creek - November 2009
37 photos
Session No. 12 in a episodic documentation of the Lower Codornices Creek project along the border separating Berkeley and Albany, California.
Codornices Creek - September 2007
40 photos
Session No. 10 in a episodic documentation of the Lower Codornices Creek project along the border separating Berkeley and Albany, California.
Codornices Creek - March 2008
61 photos
Session No. 10 in a episodic documentation fo the Lower Codornices Creek project along the border separating Berkeley and Albany, California.
Salt Pond E6B - November 2009
30 photos
I first visited Salt Pond E6B earlier this fall before the winter rains arrived. In the current day, the salt ponds production system is an array of huge ponds. Back in the day when there were dozens...
Salt Pond E14 & Archimedes Screw - October 2009
37 photos
After photographing Salt Pond E8X I took a walk along its northern border with Salt Pond E14, which was well drained and dry. As the light was getting low, I decided to walk toward the wind pump...
Salt Ponds E8 & E8X - October 2009
33 photos
I have had a fine time this fall exploring salt ponds immediately north of Alameda Creek. This area includes Salt Ponds E6B, E8, and E8X with the latter two scheduled for a return to tidal flow in...
LEAP Sandcastle Contest - October 2009
31 photos
Photographs from the 2009 LEAP 26th Annual Sandcastle Contest held on Ocean Beach. This annual contest involves teams pairing design and construction firms with children from local schools –...
CED 50th Salt Pond Hike - September 2009
31 photos
Images from a hike out to the Alviso Weep. The outing was one of many staged on 27 September, 2009 in recognition of the 50th Anniversary of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design.
On this...
Salt Pond E6B - September 2009
59 photos
These are photographs taken during a first excursion to Salt Pond E6B in an area near the ruins of the 19th Century Ohlsen Salt Works just north of Alameda Creek.
I am taking these documentary...
Salt Pond A23 at sunset - September 2009
27 photos
The Fall Stakeholder's Meeting for the South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project wrapped up this afternoon around 5:30. Rather than face I-880 traffic I made a detour to Salt Pond A23 for a quick KAP...
Drawbridge - September 2009
45 photos
In March 2006, the levee separating Salt Pond A21 from Coyote Creek was breached thus connecting the former evaporation pond to the ebb and flow of Bay tidal waters. At the time of the beach, the...
Alviso - August 2009
34 photos
These images were taken near Alviso, California in August 2009. It was an odd, hot day with the ambient temperatures reaching 101 degrees F under a high cloud cover – unusual conditions for the...
M Ponds - August 2009
64 photos
As the later part of summer arrives and the gulls finish their nesting activity I was able to secure permission to visit the M-Ponds just south of Mowry Slough. Ponds M4, M5, and M6 are high salinity...
Alvarado Salt Works - August 2009
52 photos
The ruins of the Alvarado Salt Works lie along what was once a channel of Alameda Creek outside of present day Union City, California. This was one of the first South Bay Salt Pond sites to catch my...
Limantour Beach - August 2009
28 photos
Images taken on a pleasant Sunday afternoon on Limantour Beach at the Pt. Reyes National Seashore. We gathered to celebrate a decadal birthday for colleague Charlie Huizenga. Winds were very light...
UC Berkeley, pole photos - July 2009
19 photos
Bay Nature hike to Weep - July 2009
41 photos
In July 2009 Wayne Lanier and I led a hike sponsored by Bay Nature magazine out to the Weep, a ditch just north of Alviso, California. Wayne and I worked with editor Dan Rademacher on a photo essay...
La Riviere Marsh - October 2008
37 photos
Once an upland/marsh interface, the La Riviere Marsh spent many years as the barren crystallization ponds for Arden Salt Works No. 1. The site is located on the leeward side of the southernmost...
Climbing at Emerald Bay - July 2009
24 photos
The family made a quick trip to Lake Tahoe to cheer Charlie on as he tackled the 120 miles and 15,000 feet of elevation gain in the 2009 Markleeville "Tour of the California Alps" Death...
Campanile repair - June 2009
8 photos
Images from construction atop UC Berkeley's Sather Tower during summer of 2009.
Real Goods Solar Living Center - June 2009
12 photos
A Sim van der Ryn design in Hopland, California
Maker Faire - May 2009
66 photos
Photographs taken with a Panasonic LX3 mounted atop a ten-meter-high carbon fiber fishing pole.
Of particular note is the first image: an interior 360 degree panorama in the large hall from 19...
Low tide walk - May 2009
19 photos
A fine dawn hike from Kehoe Beach to McClures Beach during a -1.9 ft extreme low tide. This is one of many fine experiences at the Pt. Reyes National Seahore.
CED Commencement - May 2009
33 photos
Photographs from the 2009 Commencement Ceremonies of the Colege of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley.
POST Talk & Walk - May 2009
24 photos
Images taken from a kite during a kite aerial photography program for the Peninsula Open Space Trust (POST). The event included a lecture followed by an outdoor demonstration of KAP technique.
Alviso - April 2009
76 photos
Images from a hike out to the weep with Wayne Lanier and a group from Ohio State University.
Mini KAPiCA 2009 - March 2009
22 photos
Photos from an informal gathering of kite aerial photographer in San Francisco. The group met in the Marin Headlands and finished the day on Bolinas Ridge. In between we encountered dead calm and...
Adam Katz - more urban
33 photos
Fodder for potential exhibit
66th Avenue Gateway - February 2009
54 photos
A new park on the Bay Trail
Sproul Plaza at Inauguration - January 2009
43 photos
An auspicious moment!
Hidden Ecologies in the field - January 2009
23 photos
Greenwood Common, Berkeley - January 2009
23 photos
Greenwood Common is a modernist residential enclave in the Berkeley Hills.
Taken with a Panasonic Lumix LX3 with 0.75x wide angle adapter mounted atop a 10-meter, handheld pole.
Berkeley Rose Walk - January 2009
50 photos
Views of Bernard Maybeck's Rose Walk and its flanking homes by Henry Gutterson c. 1924.
Lawrence Hall of Science Plaza - December 2008
21 photos
These images of entry plaza for the Lawrence Hall of Science were taken by a Panasonic LX3 camera mounted atop a handheld, 10-meter-high carp fishing pole. The camera has a 24-mm (equivalent) wide...
Alviso - December 2008
66 photos
Images from a near windless day at the Don Edwards National Wildlife Reguge's Environmental Education Center.
Oliver Salt Works ruins - various months 2008
35 photos
A complex in ruins just south of the eastern side of the San Mateo Bridge.
Mt. Eden Creek - November 2008
81 photos
Images from an area to the east of the (former) Oliver Salt Works. This is a region recently restored to tidal flow. The southern portion was connected to the tides via Alameda Creek two years ago....
Eden Creek bridge - October 2008
13 photos
Tom Bates Fields - August 2008
30 photos
The new ~7M$ soccer complex nearing completion at Gilman and Frontage Road, just south of the Golden Gate Fields Racetrack in Albany.
near Mowry Slough - July 2008
40 photos
Images from the M Series of salt evaporation ponds in South San Francisco Bay.
Spiral Jetty - June 2008
34 photos
The Spiral Jetty, a 1970 earthwork by artist Robert Smithson is found in a remote area of northern Utah. The pilgrimage takes one to the Golden Spike National Historic Site which it itself out in the...
Actual Films - May 2008
30 photos
Images from Burning Man and Ft. Mason
KQED Quest shoot - June 2007
19 photos
Images from an interview with the KQED Quest folks out at Heron's Head Park in South San Francisco. Some of these images predate the interview while others were taken during the session.
Drawbridge - May 2008
14 photos
A pleasant hike with Wayne Lanier and Maria Mortati to see how the breached ponds on Station Island were doing.
Maker Faire, Pole Photography - May 2008
37 photos
YPOQ - May 2008
24 photos
I am repeatedly drawn to the exuberant, otherworldly landscape of South San Francisco Bay. There, depending on the mood of a Sunday, I can bring binoculars to bear on the still abundant wildlife,...
DIS AD Stockholm / Finland Study Tour - July 2007
264 photos
Images from Bus Y's 2007 foray into the northern latitudes.
Petäjävesi Old Church - July 2007
17 photos
Petäjävesi Old Church, in central Finland, was built of logs between 1763 and 1765. It is an impressive building listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site where it is described as a "Lutheran...
Muuratsalo Experimental House site - July 2007
18 photos
The Muuratsalo Experimental House on the shore of Lake Päijänne was Alvar Aalto's summer house. This set includes images of the shoreline at the house site and some closer views of DIS students as...
Denmark - July 2007
269 photos
Chavez Memorial at Solstice - June 2007
47 photos
A summer solstice gathering at the Berkeley Waterfront.
Beach Party, Pacific Beach - June 2007
53 photos
The party for Amanda and Kevin at Pacific Beach
Herons Head - June 2007
79 photos
Outing with Wayne Lanier, Patrick Ready, and Maria Mortati
Alviso Weep - May 2007
36 photos
A walk with Wayne, Peter, Susan, and two students from Stanford
Maker Faire, San Mateo - May 2007
34 photos
Maker Day at the San Mateo Fairground. Photos taken with a ten-meter carp pole.
These carbon-fiber reinforced poles, which seem to be unique to the United Kingdom, are an easy way to loft a light...
Pt. Reyes - April 2007
45 photos
Drake's Beach and Chimney Rock
UC Berkeley Campus sunset - April 2007
41 photos
Images taken during a late afternoon Sundau session on campus. I used images from this session to stitch a number of panormas:
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UC Berkeley aerial panoramas - April 2007
13 photos
These panoramas were stitched from images taken during a single flight in April 2007. I am increasingly interested in stitched panoramas for several reasons.
The camera flown in this case is the...
Warm Springs to Drawbridge - May 2007
87 photos
Hikes on Sunday, 8 April and Sunday, 6 May, 2007.
UCB Central Campus - April 2007
35 photos
Images taken with a Canon SD800is during a one-hour flight on April 15, 2007. The camera cradle was radio controlled.
Alviso Weep - March 2007
12 photos
Taken on a saturday hike with Wayne Lanier out to the Alviso weep site.
Codornices Creek - December 2005
22 photos
Codornices Creek - November 2005
29 photos
Codornices Creek - October 2004
30 photos
Codornices Creek - September 2005
23 photos
Codornices Creek - January 2005
26 photos
Codornices Creek - May 2005
57 photos
Codornices Creek - March 2006
17 photos
Codornices Creek - March 2007
36 photos
Running errands on a late Saturday afternoon I stopped by the Codornices Creek project thinking it had been a while since my last vsit. Light wisps of fog were beginning to form along the shoreline...
Lake Merced - January 2006
31 photos
Sunday 11, March
Richmond Ford Assembly Plant - various dates
50 photos
I used a kite-lofted camera to take these photographs of Albert Kahn's Ford assembly Plant in Richmond, California. The set begins with images from several sessions in 2000, just a couple of years...
Lake Merced - February 2007
52 photos
San Francisco's oceanside lake and former source of fresh water.
India - January 2007
86 photos
Trip to Dehli / Chandigarh in January 2007
Alviso Weep - December 2006
19 photos
A sunny day hike on Dec. 19, 2006
Dumbarton Cutoff Rail Line - November 2006
19 photos
Images along the trans Bay rail line built in 1909 as a shortcut between Newark and Redwood City. The line fell into disuse in 1982 but may be revived as a commuter link.
Drawbridge, High Tide - September 2006
21 photos
Aerial images from an early September walk to Drawbridge to see the effect of very high tide on newly-breached salt ponds A20 and A21. It was quite impressive to watch them fill.
Alviso Weep - August 2006
32 photos
Images from August and December 2006 taken using kite and pole photography
UC Berkeley, Sather Gate - November 2006
10 photos
Pacific School of Religion - November 2006
5 photos
Berkeley, CA
Carp Pole - November 2006
16 photos
First pole images using a Nikon 8400 at 24-mm equivalent.
Marsh Road - September 2006
12 photos
The old Dumbarton Highway
map fodder
84 photos
Alviso Weep - September 2006
22 photos
A small drainage along the trail on the hike from Alviso to Drawbridge
Drawbridge - September 2006
45 photos
A Sunday walk out to Drawbridge with son Charlie Benton
Herons Head, NCSWA - August 2006
21 photos
A Saturday outing to Herons Head park with Wayne Lanier and folks from the Nothern California Science Writers Association
Heron's Head, July 2006
53 photos
Fun with Wayne and Marina
Alviso Environmental Education Center - August...
74 photos
Part of the Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge
Alviso - August 2006
51 photos
An interesting little town where civilization meets the South Bay wetlands.
ISEA Exhibit - August 2006
6 photos
Conference presentation August 2006
Dumbarton Gravel Quarry - July 2006
26 photos
This gravel pit was a 150-foot-tall hill in 1970. It now drops 300 feet below sea level.
Richmond Trail - May 2006
57 photos
Hidden Ecologies general pool
7 photos
Visual examples of project subject and methods
Hidden Ecologies, Signs -September 2006
21 photos
Hidden Ecologies Project -- a collection of access-related signs from South San Francisco Bay
Cargill Newark Crystallization Ponds - September...
5 photos
to follow
Cargill Plant - September 2005
3 photos
A stop on the VS186A greatest hits tour
Mowry Landing - May 2005
15 photos
Hidden Ecologies Project -- images from the vicinity of the former Mowry Landing in Newark, California
Alameda Creek and Coyote Hills - September 2005
10 photos
Arden Salt Works site - October 2005
38 photos
currently the LaRiviere Marsh at the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge
Jarvis Landing, working files - June 2005
12 photos
A collection of visual notes and fodder to help sort out the history of this much used intersection of the Coyote Hills, Newark Slough, and dry land.
Dumbarton Pt. North - December 2005
27 photos
Images from near the juncture of Salt Ponds N4 and N5. This is an interesting spot with salt ponds to one side, mud flats (and the Bay) to the other, and a small strip of marsh in between.
Landing at Dumbarton Point - September 2005
17 photos
Poking into the background of ruins near the eastern anchorage of the Dumbarton highway bridge.
Bayfront Park - October 2005
30 photos
A visit to Menlo Park on 28 October 2005
Heron's Head - October 2005
25 photos
A park site on the edge of San Francisco's india Basin
Herons Head - February 2006
20 photos
San Francisco's Herons Head Park at sunset
Winogradsky column - October 2005
6 photos
A slice of life
Greenbrae Boardwalk - December 2005
23 photos
On the banks of Corte Madera Creek, Marin County, California
Greenbrae Boardwalk - November 2005
39 photos
A residential community strung along the south bank of Corte Madera Creek in Marin County
Corte Madera Creek outlet - November 2005
6 photos
UC Berkeley - various dates
61 photos
A set for Evan Kerr
Conservatory of Flowers - May 2003
8 photos
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California
Philadelphia - April 2006
17 photos
Images from a workshop for the University of the Arts. Tom Nied assisting.
Joshua Tree National Park - April 2006
29 photos
A Spring Break climbing trip with Charlie and Thomas
Mt. Diablo Challenge - October 2005
63 photos
2005 Hill Climb for Save Mt. Diablo. Most images are 2592 x 1944 pixels.
Save Mount Diablo - October 2005
5 photos
Images from the 2005 Mt. Diablo Challenge (bicycle hill climb)
University of the Arts - October 2005
7 photos
Mt. Diablo - May 2006
21 photos
Pick list for Bay Nature
University of the Arts - April 2006
7 photos
Images related to planning a 2006 workshop in Philadelphia
Microscopy
6 photos
South Bay microscopy -- holder folder for blog
Denmark - June 2005
10 photos
Images shot during a two-month stint teaching in the summer session of the Danish International Studies Program in Copenhagen.
Codornices Creek - December 2005
190 photos
Creek project on the Berkeley / Albany border