Canada Goose -- Martin Luther King, Jr. Regional Shoreline, Oakland, CA Canon EOS Rebel T5i, EF 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6L IS II, f/5.6, 1/2000s, ISO:250 |
Monday, December 12, 2016
Coming in for a Landing
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Wild Turkeys
Saturday, December 10, 2016
Tule Elk
Tule Elk -- Point Reyes National Seashore, CA Canon EOS Rebel T5i, EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM, f/5, 1/1600s, ISO:400 |
As I recall, this group of elk was pretty close to the trail heading out to Tomales Point. That's always a fun hike to take in the fall. The elk are in rut and quite active.
Tule elk are smaller than Roosevelt and Rocky Mountain elk, but with males weighing in at five hundred pounds or so they are still large animals. I've read that their small size may be due to poor nourishment. Some people claim tule elk can grow to be nine hundred pounds, meaning they are potentially the same size as the other American breeds of elk. I haven't seen any that big.
Tule elk are only found in California. There used to be hundreds of thousands of these animals roaming the wilderness but by the late nineteenth century they had been reduced to a very small number of individuals (a single breeding pair or up to thirty animals depending on the source). They were discovered by a game warden and Henry Miller, the rancher who owned the land they were found on, protected them. Today, Point Reyes is struggling to keep the herds numbers in control. I read they were going to sterilize some of the females but I don't know if that ever happened.
Photo selection inspired by Geogypsy's Foto Friday Fun 192, image #4754.
Friday, December 2, 2016
Pierce Ranch
Pierce Ranch, Point Reyes National Seashore, CA |
Photo selection inspired by Geogypsy's Foto Friday Fun 190, image #2214.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Owens Valley
Owens Valley, CA Canon PowrShot SX40 HS |
Friday, November 18, 2016
Point Imperial
Point Imperial -- Grand Canyon National Park, AZ Canon EOS Rebel T5i, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, f/8, 1/125s, ISO: 100 |
Photo selection inspired by Geogypsy's Foto Friday Fun 189, image #4744.
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Capitol Building
Oregon State Capitol -- Salem, OR Canon EOS Rebel T5i, EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, ISO: 100, f/4, 2s |
Growing up in Salem, this building is a very familiar sight to me. I used to think it was an impressive building. Now, not so much. Today it seems kind of funky. San Francisco's City Hall is more impressive as far as government buildings go. The capitol was completed in 1938 and according to the offical website it's an example of Modernist Art Deco design. Huh? It has a flourish here and there I suppose, but calling this an example of Art Deco seems like a stretch to me. What do I know?
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