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6:45 This morning

 

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It's 7:30am, Monday, August 31, 2020. 

The evacuation notices for the wildfire cluster in the Santa Cruz Mountains 20-30 miles away have been lifted, but there are still uncontained burns going on there and in the fires to the Northeast, East, and South. The sun rises, and the baleful red light tinges everything, even the very air itself, as it rises through the trees and reflects the misery of this entire year so far.


Sun Rising in Still Smokey Air - Santa Clara 2020
Leica CL + Elmarit-R 135mm f/2.8
ISO 100 @ f/4 @ 1/250

My heart goes out to the hundreds of families who have lost their homes and properties in the middle of this miserable year. 

Not the greatest of times. We must hope for better times ahead.

G

“Hope is a slighter, tougher thing even than trust... In a good season one trusts life; in a bad season one only hopes. But they are of the same essence: they are the mind's indispensable relationship with other minds, with the world, and with time. Without trust, a man lives, but not a human life; without hope, he dies. When there is no relationship, where hands do not touch, emotion atrophies in void and intelligence goes sterile and obsessed. Between men the only link left is that of owner to slave, or murderer to victim.” 

 — City of Illusions, Ursula K. Le Guin

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CL w/35 TL @ f/1.4

 

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CL w/35 TL @ f/1.4

 

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CL w/35 TL @ f/1.4

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CL with 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R . . .

Olive-Backed Sunbird . . . 

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CL +55-135 ISO 3200

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Monarch on a Tithonia, bulking up for the trip to Mexico. The monarchs we have this year won't let me get close.  

CL 105 Micro Nikkor

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Sigma 100-400 is very nice at the short end

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Moonrise over Cadgwith

CL + 35/1.4 TL

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Some time earlier

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Hi Friends, Nine days ago a HUMMER tore off the front of my Fiat 500 in a collision. I’m doing pretty good. Concussion, rib # 6 fractured. Bruised sternum. Good job Fiat. The Fiat is totaled and the Hummer didn’t have a scratch. Sorry, I haven’t responded to your photographs but S a typical male I’m too busy feeling sorry for myself 🤪🕺😷

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11 minutes ago, albert said:

Hi Friends, Nine days ago a HUMMER tore off the front of my Fiat 500 in a collision. I’m doing pretty good. Concussion, rib # 6 fractured. Bruised sternum. Good job Fiat. The Fiat is totaled and the Hummer didn’t have a scratch. Sorry, I haven’t responded to your photographs but S a typical male I’m too busy feeling sorry for myself 🤪🕺😷

Wow, Albert. It's hard to say that you were "lucky" but all things considered.... So good to know that you're not badly off and on the mend!

take care,

Ken

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1 hour ago, bags27 said:

Wow, Albert. It's hard to say that you were "lucky" but all things considered.... So good to know that you're not badly off and on the mend!

take care,

Ken

Thanks much. Once again. I dodged a bullet. 🕺

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10 hours ago, albert said:

Hi Friends, Nine days ago a HUMMER tore off the front of my Fiat 500 in a collision. I’m doing pretty good. Concussion, rib # 6 fractured. Bruised sternum. Good job Fiat. The Fiat is totaled and the Hummer didn’t have a scratch. Sorry, I haven’t responded to your photographs but S a typical male I’m too busy feeling sorry for myself 🤪🕺😷

Lucky unlucky you. Look on the bright side. You can breathe. You can see. You can write. You have retained your sense of humour. There is a silver lining. Take a picture, wherever you are.

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CL with 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R + APO-Extender-R 1.4X . . . 

I think this is an Oriental Honey Buzzard, salvaged from backlight . . . 

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CL with 280mm f/4 APO-Telyt-R + APO-Extender-R 1.4X . . .

Juvenile Munia . . . 

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