hwy 1, mendocino (2/3)

fish rock became wonderfully steep and twisted, with vistas reaching ever farther ~ this time to the snow caps up north


longer lens, mountain view


it was wonderful to drop out onto the ocean after another round of steep climbing


atlantean




the rain set in.




moonlit fluidity

128 and fish rock rd, mendocino (1/3)

Taking a few days to ponder, I climbed aboard the amtrak capitol corridor and headed up to Cloverdale to begin several days in the forests, mountains, and oceans.


outside cloverdale, along 128








Turning off 128 and heading West into something like backcountry, I took fish rock road on the recommendation of Jay from RBW. Fish Rock is a thin winding low-maintenance road that begins as a single lane paved stretch in a redwood grove valley and degrades (improves?) into a meandering dirt path dominated by 2-3 mile 15% grades that repeat several times as the road climbs sharply across the coastal mountain range toward hwy 1 and the ocean. Fish Rock is 30 miles or so, 4 cars were seen.


this view peaked out of the trees alongside the road


getting better


evening light, loose gravel. idyllic mountainside cycling path...


orion peaked through the trees in the aerial logging clearing i found for camp, this is a 50mm lens at 1.8 for 8 seconds on a tripod, iso1600. see orion's nebula in the sword below the belt.


fisheye nightsky

briones

wet (dry)


good shadow


nebulous






specular reflection




purple

merritt

out from the hills

from a spot i found above panaromic, 200mm

orion nebula

My first attempt at deep space photography, captured from the light polluted skies of my patio.

In ~650 CE, excited electrons in this cosmic cloud of dust released these photons into a 1350 year journey, culminating at objective of my modest telescope where their energy met the sensor of my dslr and created this image. Everything we are condensed out of a similar nebular process (4.5 billion years ago).

One photo, ISO 1600 at 1 minute, equatorial mount. Room for improvement, but a good start.

View On Black

grizzly loopy

green is the color