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We'd gone to a weekend-long training to be Winter Wildlife Docents at Pt. Reyes. The training was a little less helpful than hoped, but on the bright side it let out at just the right time to see the sun set behind the Pacific. Can't complain. #california #nature
#nature #california

A lil' peaceful bend in the Merced River. There was some kind of animal bonking around on the other shore, which was fun to hear -- we never did see what it was. The cadence didn't feel human. But, maybe it was just a birder taking their time! #california #nature
#nature #california

Tallac had received a dusting of snow as of a couple of days ago, so I'm glad I'd gone to see the season change -- the area will be absolutely walloped by snow this weekend, so some of autumn's remainders will likely disappear. Until next time. #california #nature
#nature #california

Steller's Jays have been my white whale for years now. I see plenty of them, but every time I try to take a picture of one it's some combination of dark, blurry, the bird flew away, I was hallucinating it, birds were never real, etc. So these are certainly some of the least interesting Steller's Jay's pictures on the internet, but dangit: I finally got one 😁 #california #nature
A Steller's jay hopping around on scrubby ground, but in slightly more sun. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
A Steller's jay hopping around on scrubby ground. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
Another one of a Steller's jay hopping around on scrubby ground. [Fuji X-T5 / Tamron 18-300]
#nature #california

The Merced River winds through the hills just about where the South Fork comes in from Hite Cove and joins it. It felt quite smoky, but there aren't any big fires in the area; I almost wonder if it was an odd soup of USFS prescribed burns and general Central Valley schmutz, but there was just so much in the evenings... #california #nature
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Two ravens had set up a "tollbooth" where roadwork had necessitated the closure of one lane of traffic. Lights stopped traffic flowing in one direction, at which point the ravens swooped down from the lightpost and hopped down the line of cars peering in the driver's side window, asking for snacks. If time allowed, they would then proceed up the passenger side. An inventive scheme! This is one of the two. #california #nature
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A large tree guards the edge of Roosevelt Point in Yosemite. #california #nature
#nature #california

#SilentSunday

Ferns growing atop the root system of a giant ancient redwood tree that fell over.

Photo from the Founders Grove in the Avenue of the Giants, California.

#California #Redwood #Trees #Nature

#nature #california #Trees #SilentSunday #Redwood

Rockaway Beach, Pacifica, California (2016)

Bronica S2, Fuji Acros film

I've always liked the tonality of the rocks in this image. Acros does such a wonderful job in that regard. You can also clearly see each row of waves as they approach the shore in all of their frothy inevitability. I can almost hear them.

#believeinfilm #blackandwhite #fujifilm #darkroom #beach #california #fediphoto

#beach #blackandwhite #california #fujifilm #believeinfilm #darkroom #fediPhoto

Our daughter, India, disappeared twelve days ago in San Diego, California. It is believed she might still be in the City Heights area of the city. If you've seen her in the past week, please contact the Missing Persons Unit of San Diego County Sheriff Department: +1 619 531 2277

#Missing #Alert #MissingPerson #SanDiego #California #Police

#sandiego #california #police #missing #missingperson #alert

Winter #Solstice today for those of us on the north end. I don’t have any “solsticey” photos but thinking celestial I have this one of the #MilkyWay that I took while in N. #California last August. Our solar system orbits around the galactic center once every ~225 million years so if there was an equivalent galactic “winter solstice” point there have only been about 20 of them since our sun was but a wee protostar and all of us were just a glint in its eye.

#photography #astrophotography

#Photography #california #astrophotography #milkyway #Solstice

In the redwoods.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #photography #trees #Humboldt #California

#Photography #california #Trees #thicktrunktuesday #humboldt

Another scan from the film I just developed in my bathroom: the view from Tunnel View in Yosemite Valley

(Glacier Point is nicer, but also a longer drive)

(Shot on Yashica 124G, Portra 400, self-developed in Bellini C41 kit, scanned on Fuji Frontier)

#FilmIsNotDead #BelieveInFilm #MediumFormat #Portra #Yashica #FilmPhotography #Photography #Outdoors #Nature #Yosemite #California

#nature #Photography #california #outdoors #filmisnotdead #filmphotography #believeinfilm #MediumFormat #portra #yashica #Yosemite

"Gone for good? California's beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back

Ponderosa pine forests in the Sierra Nevada that were wiped out by western pine beetles during the 2012-2015 megadrought won't recover to pre-drought densities, reducing an important storehouse for atmospheric carbon."

🔗: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/04/230405161420.htm

#California #SierraNevada #forests #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #GlobalWarming

Gone for good? California's beetle-killed, carbon-storing pine forests may not come back: Massive climate-stoked infestations are also unlikely to recur, thanks to lower tree-stand density

ScienceDaily
#california #climatechange #ClimateCrisis #globalwarming #forests #sierranevada

We normally promote the conference Tech Intersections: Women of Color in Computing on #Twitter but won't this year for obvious reasons.

Please help us spread the word about this #bipoc conference in #Oakland #California.

We're offering 20% off with promo code MASTODON. #BlackMastodon #BlackFriday

We are giving free tickets to people who have been laid off with promo code LAIDOFF.
https://techintersections.org

The event includes an #ally skills workshop for supporters of #woc.

Tech Intersections

techintersections.org
#Twitter #california #bipoc #BlackMastodon #blackfriday #ally #woc #oakland

“Elon Musk admitted to his biographer that the reason the Hyperloop was announced—even tho he had no intention of pursuing it—was to try to disrupt the California high-speed rail project to get in the way of that actually succeeding.” — #ParisMarx #Gizmodo
https://gizmodo.com/silicon-valleys-transportation-failures-tesla-waymo-bir-1849382788 #ElonMusk #Hyperloop #California #HighSpeedRail #cities #transportation #Tesla #CityPlanning #UrbanPlanning

Silicon Valley's Push Into Transportation Has Been a Miserable Failure

The titans of tech brought plenty of disruption to our broken transportation system but delivered little in the way of innovation.
Rhett Jones (Gizmodo)
#Tesla #california #transportation #elonmusk #urbanplanning #cities #cityplanning #highspeedrail #hyperloop #gizmodo #parismarx

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