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I promise, this will be my last otter-related post for awhile.

ExpandBut how can I resist? They're so darn cute! )

Thank you all for indulging me in this brief obsession. ;) I will get back to posting about other things now.
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At last, I present to you: San Diego animal pictures! (Otters next time, I promise.)

ExpandLions, cheetahs, giraffes, seal pups... )

For the whole album, including many pictures of food, click here.

Big cats

Apr. 1st, 2008 12:55 am
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It is taking me forever to go through these pictures, so here, have a preview:



Full size is here. Warning: large picture is large.
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We were hit by one of our first big winter storms today, and another is supposed to be along any minute (no rain yet, but I can hear the wind gusting). T took advantage of the lull and got some really neat pictures. I'll probably post more later, but he got one in particular that I really loved.



This is just a detail; click on the image to see the whole thing.
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This is probably the first day all month that I've felt actively oppressed by the need to post something. I've considered, started, and abandoned at least half a dozen ideas. So I guess I'll just spam you with pictures instead.

ExpandFrom Potrero Hill )

ExpandFrom Twin Peaks )

ExpandLexi! )

I'll be more original tomorrow. Maybe. It is a concert week, but I'll see what I can come up with.
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Some people bake cookies in order to relieve stress. Other people take pictures of cookies. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out which of us is which.

There are also some people who eat cookies to relieve stress. You can probably guess who here falls into that category. (Although sometimes a person might end up eating more dough than baked cookie. Mmm, dough.)

Stargazing

Nov. 18th, 2007 10:01 pm
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Last night, we decided that we wanted to take a stab at seeing the celestial shows on offer: the Leonids and the comet. So we took off in the middle of the night and drove up to the Berkeley hills, above the fog and into the parking lot for the Lawrence Hall of Science.

The comet was a bust; we couldn't find it at all. Either the area where we were was too bright, or we weren't looking in the right place, or something, but we never found it. The meteorites did a little better -- T saw a shooting star as we stepped out of the car, and then around midnight I saw like six in the space of two minutes, and a couple of them were really impressive. I did better with the Perseids back in August, but it was still fairly cool; I didn't feel like the trip had been wasted.

But the real winner of the evening was the fog:

ExpandPicture beneath the cut )

The nearby glowing bits are the UC Berkeley campus. Then you can see the fog stretching out over the Bay to where radio towers poke up in San Francisco. You can see those better in this larger version, along with some stars. It's quite a view during the day, but there was something really cool about seeing it all at night, shrouded in fog.

For some unrelated photographic goodness, I refer you to [livejournal.com profile] anzubird's photos of our trip to the San Diego Zoo. Sadly, my camera died the day before, so I don't have my own photos to share. But there's some great ones in here, especially the lynx.
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Today, as an environmental awareness action/publicity stunt, the city of San Francisco turned off lights on selected major landmarks for an hour (8pm to 9pm), and invited its residents to do the same. T wanted to get a look at the scene from a distance, and maybe get some photos, so we headed over to Oakland to set up a vantage point at a park along the bay. We met up with R, S, and E for dinner beforehand, and then the three of them joined us at the park, hoping for a good look at the show.

ExpandPhotos and more! )
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T just emailed me the following photograph with the subject line of "Cat Photo".

ExpandWell, the cats are in it anyway... )
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So, Hawaii.

ExpandBeware: long. Unless otherwise indicated, all photos are taken by T. )

To wrap up: it was beautiful, it was fascinating. I knew going in that the Big Island had a ton of different climates and ecosystems, but experiencing them all in person was almost bewildering -- from scrub and grass desert to tropical rainforest to sunny beaches to the chill of high mountains (Kilauea is at an elevation of over 4,000 feet) and back, in just a few days, sometimes in as little as one day. So many plants and flowers and birds -- brightly colored birds were everywhere! I wish I knew what more of them were. Given how much there was to see, it wasn't quite as relaxing as it might have been, but it was definitely fun, and I would absolutely go back.
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I've uploaded a selection of my Hawaii photos to Flickr. Featuring decent sunset photos for the first time in my life! Also I had way too much fun playing with the macro lens setting.

Stories still forthcoming, but one thing at a time....

Picspam!!

May. 27th, 2007 01:16 pm
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In honor of the 70th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, have some photos. And I threw in some kitties, as long as I was at it. ;) All photos by T.

Update: I am informed that the bridge photos I uploaded were not properly resized, and you should look at these versions instead.

ExpandTori being cute )

ExpandLexi being cuter )

ExpandThe Golden Gate Bridge being awesome )
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It's been approximately a million zillion years since I put up cat photos. They're still cute and all, but it's true that they aren't kittens any more, and T has been experimenting with other kinds of photography. That doesn't mean there aren't still awesome kitty pics to share, though.

ExpandHere, let's have some. )

Full size in the gallery.

ExpandPlus, bonus fuzziness! )

In other news, finals are approaching, which leads to all the usual craziness. Stressed students, meetings all over the place, printers breaking down. Not to mention my boss being out on vacation. (Like one of the students said to me today, "She gets Paris, and you get finals." I don't begrudge her the trip, at all, it was a timing thing she couldn't control. Still, the kid has a point.) Just another week in the library!
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So I actually took all of these. You can tell because they suck. ;) Well, okay, they're all right. But they aren't nearly as good as T's usually are. But I still like them

ExpandA whole bunch of pictures behind the cut )

These photos and more uploaded to Flickr. This is my first time playing with Flickr so I hope it works.... Any issues with seeing them, let me know.
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So we are back from San Diego. Stories to come, but for now I thought I would just spam you with animal pics.

ExpandPictures from SeaWorld and one from the Wild Animal Park. )

Larger versions of all of these and many more pics in the gallery.
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I may have mentioned before that we live right around the corner from SBC Park, the baseball stadium where the SF Giants play. On Thursday and Friday nights (actually throughout the week), a ski jump was constructed in the ballpark for a big event yesterday -- they brought in artificial snow for a winter sports exhibition. The ridiculousness of such a thing aside, T was taken with the way the place looked, so those two nights he pulled out the camera and took a little fieldtrip. (I joined him on Thursday, to keep him company and carry the tripod.) Here are some of the pictures.

ExpandSki jumps in improbable places, boats in the dark, and other night photography )

Several more, including more of the boats, in the gallery.
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Final Fantasy 12 in two days!! Must manage expectations, must manage expectations...

Anyone have suggestions about ways to find an FFXII userpic without spoiling myself to death?

Also, on a completely unrelated topic, photos from Critical Mass, a monthy bike ride/protest in downtown San Francisco.

This one is my favorite:

ExpandFire! )

Between working Saturday and today's ballgame, I don't feel like I had much of a weekend. At least next week should be fairly mellow. Also, three day weekend! That always works.

City pics!

Sep. 27th, 2006 11:23 pm
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T has taken some really neat San Francisco photos over the last several days. ExpandBehind the cut. )

ExpandAnd a cat picture for good measure. )
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The SF Bay Bridge is currently undergoing a huge renovation to bring it up to modern seismic standards. It's been going on for years and is scheduled to finish sometime in 2009. (This is just the retrofit of the San Francisco side. The new bridge, the Oakland side, is also under construction and probably won't be done until 2016 at the earliest.) Over the Labor Day weekend, they demolished a small portion of the upper deck. In order to do this, they had to close the bridge in the eastbound direction entirely, for the whole long weekend. It's supposed to reopen at 5am tomorrow.

Since we only live two blocks from the demolition site, of course we had to go take a look. T, a big fan of large-scale construction and demolition projects, took several pictures. ExpandHere are some of them. )

As I was pulling these pictures together, I noticed that the distant sound of jackhammers had stopped for the first time since very early Saturday morning. They're back now, intermittently, along with the dumptrucks taking away all the debris. We've been able to hear the noise from the bridge retrofit off and on almost since I started living here, in 2000, and for the most part I'm used to it. Still, headphones can be a blessing.

And now, for something completely different: Lexi climbing the walls!
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ExpandPandas and more. )

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