Supertopo, the climbers’ board, has a thread showing rock formations that look like naughty bits. Silly but amusing. Wonder if this one from the Pinnacles qualifies: Link via GoBlog (of course).
Photography
Waterfall photography, what I learned yesterday
by tom • February 26, 2008 • 12 Comments
I’m learning something new about taking pictures of moving water pretty much every time I go out. The coolest waterfall imagery, to my mind, has a certain flow that you don’t get by setting your camera on “automatic” and hoping…
Mission Peak in the afternoon
by tom • January 28, 2008 • 4 Comments
The light at Mission Peak was amazing this afternoon. In honor of my previous post linking to my first-ever Mission Peak summit, I decided to head up there again this afternoon. Oddly enough, after days and days of storms and…
Gorillapod thoughts
by tom • December 10, 2007 • 6 Comments
I bought one of these Gorillapod tripods last spring and finally made up my mind to take it out in the woods and see how handy it is for hiking. Turns out it works pretty well — it stands on…
Hiking & photography
by tom • December 7, 2007 • 12 Comments
Ask Steve why he never takes a camera hiking and he’ll mention the boxes & boxes of slides from backpacking trips of days gone by that he never looks at anymore. Then there’s Dan, who could equip a polar expedition…
San Jose man a finalist in wildlife photo contest
by tom • December 6, 2007 • 1 Comment
Stephen W. Oachs of San Jose won first place in the “Mammals, Amateur” category of National Wildlife Magazine’s 2007 photo contest. Oachs photographed play-fighting grizzlies near Yellowstone National Park at a nonprofit preserve for bears and wolves. The rest of…
Rock face and clouds
by tom • November 26, 2007 • 0 Comments
Rock face and clouds, originally uploaded by busybeingborn. Just a test of the Flickr “blog this” function.
Quick road trip to Yosemite
by tmangan • November 4, 2007 • 6 Comments
Melissa and I dashed over to Yosemite early Sunday (the end of Daylight Savings gave us an hour we had to spend). Didn’t do any hiking but did click a few choice images. The greatness never ends at Yosemite, and…
Beth in Berkeley’s vacation pics
by tmangan • August 28, 2007 • 0 Comments
She and her tribe — Dad plus four young-uns — had some good fun camping at Lassen Volcanic National Park last week. Pictures here. Beth’s pics prove conclusively that if you’ve got kids, you’ve got a huge leg up on…