The Night is Alive
Victorian Fantasy
SAN FRANCISCO BAY
Snoopy and his Camel greeted me on my arrival here in 1969 and just in the past year went the way of the rest of the "junk sculpture" which adorned the mud flats in those Renaissance years. May he live forever in cyberspace.
Fall equinox, 1984, a most unusual lightning display went on all night in the Bay Area.
These were taken looking west over Oakland toward San Francisco from my backyard in the Oakland Hills. I left the shutter open until I had "collected" several bolts and discovered that any exposure from ten to thirty seconds worked. Nighttime photography in black and white is very forgiving.
FIRE
Fall equinox again, October 20, 1991. The hot dry winds coming the wrong way, from the baking landmass, combined with human ineptitude to produce a firestorm on my way to work. These were taken with a plastic one-time-only camera I try to keep nearby.
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Bright morning sunshine turned to darkest night as the black smoke of hardwood furniture and priceless lacquers mingled with the pine, eucalyptus and oak.
The next day this solitary Weber was all that remained of one family's material possessions.
(off the southside of Boreal)
(off the southside of cows)
Cows in Big Sur, as contented as they get.
Except when intruded upon. I say, neither of us are natives.
Fourth of July Fireworks from San Francisco's Embarcadero
Boreal, where I-80 crosses the Pacific Crest Trail is very user friendly. My ancient Shawn Palmer board is too heavy to get much air without a kicker and Boreal's got lots of them.
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CALIFORNIA HERE I COME
WHERE BOWERS OF FLOWERS BLOOM IN THE SUN
The Golden Gate, looking East, 1990;
the Cliff House looking West, c 1900 and my
grandfather, Harry P. Gordon, with my mother, Evelyn, on his Harley, 1916.
And here's Captain Harry and "nanny" Anne Gordon
50 years later
dAD AND NiNa
Peace and Snow
Wasatch Range, Utah
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