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Mrs Adams Gourmet Cookies, Merced, CA

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My wife and I visited a new cookie store in Merced, CA. I loved the light fixtures and took a shot. I used my prime 50mm lens at f2.8 focusing on the first lamp.

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UC Merced

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After a rainstorm I went out and photographed UC Merced. The yellow buildings on the left are student housing and the buildings on the right are the library and classrooms.

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On a Different Post

Last week I posted a photo of a structural post a Railtown 1897

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For me Railtown 1897 was a treasure trove of photographic opportunities. I thought about converting this image to black and white but I like the subtle colors of the wood. Once again this state park is going to close this year. If you want to go, go soon. Better yet join the California State Parks Foundation and help the fight to keep these (our) treasures open. There are 70 yes 70 state parks set for closure.

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Dave

The Lights of San Francisco

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The image is named after the TV series “The Streets of San Francisco,” one of my favorite TV shows way back in the last century. San Francisco is just magical and I tried to capture the splendor of the lights in the city.

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Bixby Bridge

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The famous Bixby Bridge is located about 13 miles south of Carmel, CA. Famous photographers like Roman Loranc have photographed here and while I was photographing many other photographers were giving their cameras a work-out. I decided to emphasise the structure of the bridge by removing most of the colors.

Enjoy and happy photographing!

Repetition

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San Francisco is full of beautiful buildings. I see a lot of creativity in many of them and I tried to capture it. I love the style and the repetition of these windows which I photographed from Yerba Buena Park.

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Street Lights

Like many cities Chowchilla is trying to enhance it’s downtown.

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Around the New Civic Center and a few other areas they added these retro style street lights.

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Dave

TV Tower in Berlin, Germany

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I photographed the TV Tower in Berlin at sunset. The tower is the fourth tallest tower in Europe (1,207 feet) and is actually built during the communist time in former East Berlin.

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Kearney Mansion

Kearney Mansion is the centerpiece of Kearney Park near Fresno Ca.

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This was taken about 20 minutes after the ‘battle’ from the ‘Civil War Revisited’ had ended. Notice how the smoke from the canon and rifle fire still hung in the air. The tents in the front are from the reinactors and information booths. Notice how the spires of the booths mimic the spires on the mansion itself.

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Dave

California State Capitol

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This image went through several stages of processing. First, I created three different files out of the original camera raw files, one image under one over and the third normal exposed. Second, I used Photomatix pro to create an high dynamic range (HDR) file. Third, I used NIK Siver Efix pro to create the final image.

I loved the clouds over the building since the somehow reflect the current situation of money shortage everywhere. Will see how we handle the storm.

Enjoy and keep on photographing!