Blue Dragonfiles Mate in Midair

{50mm; 1/s; f/3.5; ISO100; 07/04/09: Taken in Desolation on Middle Velma. These blue dragonfiles were all over the place doing their in flight coitus (jealous?) while we were all chilling out on some rocks. I got in the cool water for some of these pics and couldn't resist the color on black and white after Liz suggested it. The insane thing is that there are probably another 20 or 30 dragon flies that I didn't color in this picture.}

Big Mountains Have Snow

{50mm; 1/400s; f/6.3; ISO100; 07/03/09: Taken on the hike up into the mountains. I think this picture does a fair job of grasping the scale of the granite walls around us.}

Plants Are Stronger Than Rock

{50mm; 1/1600s; f/2.2; ISO100; 04/03/09: This little shoot sticking up out of this crack seemed to be splitting the huge room sized boulder. It's amazing what persistence can achieve.}

Fourth of July! Reflections of Islands

{50mm; 30s; f/1.8; ISO200(!); 07/04/09: I went to Desolation Wilderness this weekend, and so I fell behind on the daily photo, so bare with me! Just think though, you get a picture taken the day of so that's kinda cool. This is a stitching of 14 images, taken at night around moonrise.}

Looking Down on You

{50mm; 1/100s; f/6.3; ISO100; 05/14/09: This is the statue out front of Marygrove College. I'm just guessing but I bet it's Mary.}

Granma

{50mm; 1/200s; f/1.4; ISO100; 05/14/09: This is my Mom's Mom Vivian. She's a hoot.}

Valencia from the Hip

{50mm; 1/4000s; f/4.0; ISO200; 06/27/09: Taken from the hip while walking towards Mission from Dolores Park.}