Levi's oral hygiene part 2

elderly moon and gulls

old moon and gulls
Originally uploaded by stshank.

The old moon is verging on new again. Some gulls flew in front of it early yesterday morning. It's getting harder to photograph this because of the morning light washing it out. I find myself distracted by the orbital geometry of the moon and sun and Earth--the closer the moon is directionally to the sun, the more of it is in shadow. It's so obvious once you know what's going on, but what a challenge to figure that out in the first place.

Chalmers Captivity Day

Chalmers Captivity Day
Originally uploaded by stshank.

We celebrated the 11th anniversary of Chalmers Captivity Day, which commemorates the occasion when Rachel lured him off the streets of Detroit with a bucket of barbecued ribs--by letting him run off-leash in Marin County.

San Francisco ice

San Francisco ice
Originally uploaded by stshank.

While people in New York are wearing bathing suits in January, it went below freezing in San Francisco. This photo is nothing to write home about (indeed, you may confuse it with a picture of some moon of Jupiter), but it is documentary evidence of our frosty state.

crescent moon

crescent moon
Originally uploaded by stshank.

The crescent moon on 1.12.2007. The cold San Francisco weather has meant some great clarity for these moonshots. Plus I'm temporarily obsessed. Shot at F/4.5 at 1/200 sec at ISO 100.

Oral Hygiene

Leapin' Levi

hummingbird

hummingbird
Originally uploaded by stshank.

She (I suspect) was perched on a telephone wire near the house, chattering up a storm.

Levi in the fleece conehead outfit

Levi in the fleece conehead outfit
Originally uploaded by stshank.

Levi on a Sunday afternoon walk.

red-tailed hawk

red-tailed hawk
Originally uploaded by stshank.

A red-tailed hawk in the neighborhood. It was flying with a juvenile--perhaps its offspring?

bucolic

bucolic
Originally uploaded by stshank.

Levi tootles around on a tractor at the farm section of the San Francisco zoo.

Three moons

Three moons
Originally uploaded by stshank.

Three versions of the same photo of the moon. The top is processed from the raw image. The middle is processed from the JPEG. The bottom is the unedited JPEG. From a distance, the top two are indistinguishable, but up close, the middle has color speckles and less detail. The bottom one shows the foggy haze.

Townsend's warbler

Townsend's warbler
Originally uploaded by stshank.

They're usually up in the trees, but I found one at my level flitting about the San Francisco Zoo. Of about 25 shots, only two weren't blurred--these guys hop around a lot.

Pt. Reyes snowy egret

Pt. Reyes egret
Originally uploaded by stshank.

Golden booties are just visible as the snowy egret lands in the water.