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I made my annual winter pilgrimage to La Jolla Cove last Saturday morning to photograph the marine life and the surfers. It was a beautiful warm sunny day. The number of critters hanging out at the cove varies from year to year. This year the numbers were about half of what's there in a good year. The only disappointment on the day was there was some good size, well formed waves and not a single surfer.
Tonight I have the pinnipeds. Next Friday will be the sea and shore birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinniped

He ain't heavy, he's my brother

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Went grocery shopping this morning. 1 lb ground beef $6.99. 1 doz jumbo eggs $6.99. 1 gal whole milk $4.99. 1 lb bacon $11.39. 7 oz package swiss cheese $6.99. 48 oz jar of mayo $10.49. I'm glad I'm only shopping for one. Can't even imagine how large families get by. At least the weathers been nice (sunny and mid 80s) and will continue to be nice through next week.

Since the weather has been nice I finally got out with the new macro lens and photographed the honey bees that have been visiting my Rosemary plants. I mixed in some shots of a White-faced bumble bee I took a few weeks ago with a long (600mm) lens while out photographing birds. It was a good thing the bumble bee showed up cuz I didn't get any decent bird shots that day.

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Quick local update. The weather since last Friday has been a mixed bag. It was sunny and warm through Tuesday. Haven't seen the sun since then. Got some rain last night and we're supposed to get more today and tomorrow. Over the last few weeks the price of gas dropped ¢.40 a gal. from $4.49 to $4.09 which is nice. Now if only the cost of groceries would go down too. That's not asking for to much is it?

2 weeks ago I was planning to photograph a vintage car show. Unfortunately do to circumstances beyond my control I wasn't able to make it. So instead tonight I'm posting some leftovers (I've got lots of leftovers) from last Aprils Good Guys car show.

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This months camera club outing was to Cabrillo National Monument at Point loma. While exploring the west coast Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo was the first European in California when the expedition landed in what is now San Diego bay in September 1542. Along with the nation monument Point Loma is also home to two lighthouses. The original lighthouse on the top of the point was built in 1855 and in use until 1891. Due to the all the fog at the top of the point a new lighthouse was built at the base of the point in 1891.

The original lighthouse

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Last month I replaced my old macro lens with an updated version. I finally got around to trying it out this week. Since the Rosemary in my backyard is blooming like crazy right now the plan was to photograph the bees that are attracted to the blossoms. Unfortunately we had scattered showers most of the week. Even when it wasn't raining it was to windy for macro photography. So I moved inside and tried out the new lens on a few of the silver coins I picked up as insurance for when the dollar goes bust.

Lady Liberty

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The sun has set on another year. One that was filled with fires, floods, the military on our city streets, inflation, a crumbling economy, piracy, war, and some really bad movies. So long 2025. I don't think to many people will be sad to see you go.

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Happy Holiday season everyone. With all the talk in the open threads the last few days about the meals being planned for yesterday I trust everybody got enough to eat. Hope you all had a wonderful day with family and friends.

Due to being under the weather last week and inclement weather this week, it's been a while since I got out with the camera so tonight is a mix of a few new photos, a few leftovers from previous outings and a few recycled (previously posted) photos.

Seasonal Colors

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(In my best Andy Rooney voice) Do you ever wonder why we say "I caught a cold"? There are a lot of things I would like to catch (your mileage may very}, an award winning photo, the game winning touchdown pass in a football game, the buxom redhead that works at the bank. Hell, I'm even good with catching a 2 for 1 deal on a dozen extra large eggs at the grocery store. What I'm not good with is catching a cold. Coughing, sneezing, body aches and pains, chills, lack of energy, loss of apatite. Snot to mention hacking up all that mucus and phlegm. These are not things anybody I know wants to "catch" So why do we use that term. I propose a change. Instead of saying "I caught a cold" I think we should say "a cold caught me". After all, nobody tries to catch a cold.

If the above rant wasn't a dead giveaway, I have a cold. Symptoms started last Friday with a sore scratchy throat. Things stayed that way through Tuesday. When I woke up Wednesday morning the sore throat was gone. Yippee! Colds gone! Nope. No such luck. A few hours after getting up the cold kicked into high gear with all the nasty symptoms mentioned above. No fun but better this week than next week.

Snowy Egret

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In the film era of photography, camera settings were limited to shutter speed, aperture, and film speed. Not much to go wrong there. Today's digital cameras are small computers, and the settings you can program into how the camera functions are in the hundreds. And like all computers/programs, you get bugs and glitch's. One of those glitch's popped up when I went to the zoo Wed. morning. When I turned the camera on and looked through the viewfinder, there was no color. Everything was B&W. That was something I didn't expect since the last time I used the camera a few days earlier, everything in the view finder was in color. One of the hundreds of programing options available is to save your preferred camera settings on a memory card (which I've done) so when a glitch happens you can throw that memory card into the camera (which I did) and reload your preferred settings. Color restored. Crisis averted. It was a beautiful day weather wise. Sunny and mid 70s. A big plus was there were very few people visiting the zoo that day. The big minus was the animals were being very camera shy. Now if only there was a setting on the camera to make the animals less camera shy.

Bonobo

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Another day in paradise here in the lower left. Sunny blue sky's and temps in the mid 70s with more of the same on the horizon for the next week. The nice weather is why so many birds spend their winter here. Lets face it, where would you rather be this time of year, somewhere where it's sunny and warm, or somewhere where it's cold and snowing?

American White Pelican