blog of photos taken with a camera by me
Dr. Jack Welch, ex-director of the Hat Creek Observatory, looks as some of the radio antennas of the Allen Telescope Array at Hat Creek Observatory in Hat Creek, California. The Hat Creek Observatory announced on December 5th, 2011 that it is resuming the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
60 City Grazing goats graze the rail yard of the Port of San Francisco in the Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhood of San Francisco. City Grazing has 60 goats on a 10-acre site ringed by a rail yard as a “rent-a-goat” service that provides an ecological alternative method for weeding.
Catherine Culver poses in her flight training suit for a portrait at her home in San Jose, California. Ms. Culver, a former NASA mission controller, put down her $20,000 deposit for a Virgin Galactic flight, one of 475 people who have reservations for the commercial outer space flights.
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Jen and Chris had a beautiful wedding at Jen’s parents inn that they own in Occidental in Northern California. We did their first look at Ocean Song Farm and Wilderness nearby. The whole wedding was outside in the inn’s courtyard. After the ceremony, guests enjoyed drinks nearby as the staff hurried to transition the space to the reception setting. The weather was perfect and we had plenty of amazing light to use all night.
A dog watcher leaves the dog park in the St. Mary’s Park neighborhood in San Francisco, California. The 320 homes in St. Mary’s Park are laid out on streets shaped to look like a bell. Tucked between Bernal Heights and the Excelsior, this spacious neighborhood of detached homes with sidewalks and manicured yards seems as if from a bygone era.
A fifth grader in Mr. Robert O’Brien’s PE class at Sycamore Valley Elementary School in Danville, California. In all of the Bay Area, Cesar Chavez Elementary School in San Francisco has the least physically fit 5th graders with none of the fifth grade students passing all six health and fitness tests administered by the state of California, while 83 percent of the 5th graders at Sycamore Valley Elementary School in Danville pass.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan poses for a portrait after an Oakland Education Cabinet meeting at Mills College in Oakland. Mrs. Jean Quan, Oakland’s first female mayor, received criticism in October 2011 for her handling of the Occupy Oakland protests.
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Students examine insects found in pond water at NatureBridge at the Headlands Institute in Sausalito, California. For more than 40 years, NatureBridge has instructed students in field science and environmental education in Yosemite National Park, Olympic National Park, Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation.
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