Friday Night Photos Bayfront Edition

Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

The lesser of two evils? This week I had a colonoscopy. Next week I have jury duty. Neither one is at the top of my "fun things to do" list. Oh well. At least the weather has been great and for one day this week I can honestly say I wasn't completely full of shit.

It's been a few years since I've done any night time photography so last week on Wednesday evening I went to Coronado Island to photograph the San Diego bayfront and skyline at sunset and the rising of the super blue moon. It was a beautiful evening with clear skies, no wind, and temp in the mid 70s.

My new boat
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Downtown San Diego at sunset
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Downtown San diego after sunset
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Blue Moon rising
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Floating museum USS Midway CV41
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QMS's picture

Your shot of the moon over the bridge is a definite winner.

Dredging thru my photos, only came up with these. Maybe already
posted at some point in the past, but the memory fades. But not
the images. Sakonnet Point Light, now owned by the town sort of.
We bought it from the Fed for a buck. They wanted to blow it up!

http://www.sakonnetlighthouse.org

Anyways, thanks for giving a shit Wink

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same lighthouse under different conditions

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fun theme song

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@QMS
Beautiful shots of the Sakonnet Point Light. Such a dramatic difference between the two. Thanks for the RC tune.

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@QMS Great photos Capt. QMS! You must be using the lighthouse stamps currently from USPS? I like them. One day I will have to collect my lighthouse pics for a series. Fire Island, Sandy Hook, Montauk, I have some nice ones. Very nice photos!

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will have to look into it
I use the light houses mostly to avoid scotch on the rocks

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@QMS The lighthouses are a current forever stamp... nice ones...

I avoided scotch on the rocks for a long time, and then I finally tried it. Famous Grouse of course! Not bad at all.

Boats and rocks, not such a good match. At youtube I watch drain plug mafia, and dingy content I think it is, two channels with boating idiots on parade, weekend warriors with more money than brains as they tend to be. Haulover inlet vids can be good too, if you like watching others stuff it... These are channels for learning how NOT to go boating.

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@QMS

Those photos are unforgettable and totally iconic, beautiful!

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Hi all, Hey SP!

Great photos as always SP! Love yer new bass boat! We can make Cortes Banks in that! Probably in less than half the time my old slogs out there took at 10 knots. Nice carrier pic. And that looks like the 'Moon over Parador'. Great work man! Things will get better after next week! Hope its not a long trial with sequestration!

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@dystopian
I remember seeing Moon over Parador. Other than it stared Richard Dreyfuss, I don't remember much about it or if it was any good or not. In my shot the moon is over the Coronado bridge.

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Here are a couple more digimages from slides... so sorry about the quality... or lack thereof.

These are Western Sandpiper, which you may see at the bayshore, though not developed ones.
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Here is a crop: they are about 6.5" long and weigh just under an ounce.
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I gotta fly, will get back in a bit...

take care and be well all!

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@dystopian

are tiny compared to yours
they are fun to watch scampering
between the waves on the beach
in the sand when it is calm

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@dystopian
congregated in large flocks like that. The only Sandpipers I've seen are Spotted Sandpipers and never in a group, only one at a time.

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@dystopian @QMS @Socialprogressive

Thank you for the Sandpiper photos. Like Q and Social I only knew them as fairly solitary figures on the beach on a calm day. Were you out on a boat when you saw the flock?

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@janis b Hi Janis, and all,

I think this pic was taken in the concrete channel known as the Los Angeles River. Will have to check the roll it came from. Long shot it could be from Newport Bay. Winter at bays and lagoons in socal. But anywhere really.

I find it interesting you and SP think of them as solitary. Most are fairly to highly gregarious. But I suppose it is in a specific habitat as a rule. Where tidal, and mudflats are best. Bays, lagoons, and even inland at freshwater rivers, ponds, or lakes, as long as there is mudflats. When life gives you mud, look for shorebirds. At high tide they gather in roosts, sometimes in tens of thousands. At low tide they disperse on the tidal flats, when a telescope is needed. This flock had a couple thousand in it, the pic is only a part of it. Spotted are one of the very solitary types, as is, you guessed it, Solitary Sandpiper. Those two are freshwater sandpipers.

Most breed in high latitudes, as in the arctic. Many winter in South America. There are banded Western Sandpipers as in my pic, that do Alaska to Chile every year. The Godwit of recent news for doing what 10k miles in 11 days a couple times is an example of what kind of long distance migrants many are.

Amongst them are a bunch of types or groups. There are grasspipers that you see in the grass, rockpipers that are always on rocks, but most are near water's edge. Curlews, Avocets, Godwits, Snipe, Phalaropes, Plovers, Dowitchers, are all shorebirds, or sandpipers. The Am. Woodcock is a forest sandpiper! I have seen 30 species in a day a few times. Once at Jamaica Bay NWR in Brooklyn, and once at Corpus Christi, TX are two I remember off the top of my head. Probably in CA too. Fall is when. Now. Take all your dough and go to your nearest bay or lagoon, and look for people looking through a telescope. Those are the sandpiper people. Especially in July, only ones to battle deerflies to see sandpipers when they first start coming back south.

gotta fly friends! take care!

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@dystopian

Plenty of muddy tidal flats around these parts.

Thank you dystopian, for the impetus to expand my bird brain. This is the time the Godwits start to arrive here. I’ll keep an eye out for them.

https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/native-animals/birds/birds-a-z/eastern-ba....

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@janis b

I took it to mean god had the wits
to make birds or some such
silly me

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@QMS

Silly you ; )

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Your new boat fits in perfectly and architecturally with the skyline. The window shapes are such an interesting feature. It's a great photo, thank you.

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@janis b
It's a very nice looking boat.I thought the shapes of the windows in the hull a unique design. Something you don't see every day.

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Some photos of the bush as Spring settles in ...

Enjoy the weekend everyone

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@janis b
a walk through the brush, Janis. It looks like a great place to get away from it all and just sit and watch and listen to nature.

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and thank you for joining me ; ).

'Bush' has no 'r' in it. The Kiwi name for forest is bush.

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@janis b
Thanks for the correction.

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@Socialprogressive

just happy to clarify. How would you know, otherwise ; ).

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@janis b

as an education on bush
of the vegetative type
Wink

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@janis b

of the political stripe
which I meant to add
but my mouse is misfiring

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@janis b

excellent way to show your environment
Thanks!

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and enjoy your pleasure in viewing.

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@janis b Wow J! Beautiful photos! Is that the humidity I see?

Outstanding images as always Janis!

thanks!

take care!

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@dystopian

It was during moments of sunshine and heavy rain showers playing hide and seek.

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@janis b

If so the sharpness gives it away. Nice tho and I think it adds to the picture.

SP. nice shots! I have pictures of SF skyline taken from Sausalito with my 4 mpx digital camera which I waited patiently to get to that size. I have a great photo of the moon over Alcatraz with the spotlight in it. I will post them next week unless I forget. They are on my other iPad that the battery won’t hold a charge. Gee what’s my luck with batteries?!

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this week. I'm a water bug of the first order, so sailing, fishing, swimming, and beach walking all equal heaven to me. Smile That boat looks like some sort of fancy research/military vessel, Sp. Probably some rich futurist's yacht, more likely. I like the peaceful contrast of your forest photos, jb. It's been the usual action here in the Sinking Peninsula: hurricane watching. Ugh! Hopefully, Idalia will be it for the season, but we've still got a lot of time left. Anywho, Rec'd! Smile

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Coastal Florida is a great place to live if you like the water. Not so great if you don't like hurricanes and tropical storms. It looks like you're safe from the next big hurricane (Lee). Right know it's projected to hit the New England area of the east coast. I'd say the boat was owned by a Russian oligarch, except they've all been illegally stolen by our government already. Whoever owns it has a lot of money. That's one fancy boat.

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