Finally got around to sorting through the photos from our trip to Hawaii’s Big Island earlier this year, and I’ve uploaded a lot of them (almost 100) to Flickr. You can see them all in the Big Island set.
Big Island Photos
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Bay Ship
More photos of the sunset over the city tonight, only tonight I had the 20D with me, so the photos are sharper! Also got this reflection of one of Bay Ship’s sheds reflecting in the almost totally still water it is built over.
The ship yard was still busy, with crews working on the luxury motor yacht Pangaea (which has been in the yard pretty much the whole year – and seems to be undergoing a major refit) as well as some other vessels they have up on shore or in the floating dry dock.
Ferry Terminal Sunset
Stepping off the ferry this evening in Alameda, this was the view down the estuary back towards San Francisco! Unfortunately, I didn’t have the 20D with me, just the trusty Nokia N95, and while the shot is still beautiful, I have to admit it did not do the scene justice. Tomorrow, and perhaps for the rest of this week, I will carry the 20D with me too!
I actually have a few from last week when I took it, but still need to upload those. Watch for more sunset photos in the Flickr stream this week…
Venice Photos
Finally, I got around to uploading a few of the photos from Venice. I have many more that I need to try to find some time to sort through and upload, but these will give you a taste of the island of San Marco.
You can see them all in the new Venice 2008 set I’ve created (and as I upload more they’ll also be added to this set).
The photo to the right is of the Grand Canal, taken from beside the Rialto bridge.
REPOST: Anybody Got a Bucket?
This little boat has been here for a few weeks now just like this, half full of water. I guess nobody has needed to use it, which makes me wonder why it was even left where it is.
Maybe one day somebody will take the time to bail it out 🙂
[Reposted after the original was lost in a strange database problem at my hosting provider.]
Flickr Oddities Today
Seems like there is something going on with those little JavaScript-enabled buttons over the top of images at Flickr today. I’ve had a number of times when they didn’t do anything, and then just now when I went to post the tree frogs photo to the blog, I got the strange title in the drop down instead of the normal one.
Climbing Frog!
These guys are relative newcomers to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, living downstairs from the Outer Bay exhibit along with the fresh water otters, the Asian Vine Snakes and a few other animals.
Next time I go I must take the tripod though for these guys as they stay perfectly still, making them a perfect model for a lower ISO setting (these were taken hand held at ISO 1600 to cope with the low light level).
Blue, So Blue
Sometimes hard to believe that these jellyfish are real. They look so alien, especially against that very blue background. This is not of the clichéd orange ones from the large tank, but one of the less photographed ones in the smaller exhibits before you reach the jelly fish wall.
I will have some more photos uploaded soon from the more artistic jellyfish exhibit downstairs in the outer bay side of the Monterey Bay Aquarium too, which is soon to be closed to make space for something new. Many of those creatures are even more surreal than this one.
Blue Tail
While hiking back down the valley view trail in Big Sur during our camping trip a few weeks back, we spotted this little lizard with a very blue tail! It’s not exactly going to help keep him hidden among the leaves and twigs, so I wonder why it is blue? A warning perhaps that he’s not tasty…
Still, he sat still long enough for a couple of photos which makes a change!
Sleeping Sea Otter
Finally catching up on uploading some of my recent photos to Flickr. Up so far are 40 shots from our camping trip to Big Sur (before the fires started), and a few of the shots from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, including these close up shots of the sea otters sleeping on the surface of their tank.