Special treat today. Took my camera to the Back Back this weekend (.. here in Newport Beach). Major estuary .. where fresh water meets & mixes with ocean water (.. depending on the tide). It was overcast, but the light is nice for taking pictures when skies are gray. Bright sunlight tends to wash out colors.
Five photos. First one posted here » Newport Back Bay #1.
I cropped out most of the sky (using Fireworks) and resized down from the camera's default resolution (2272 x 1704). Used high-quality jpeg encoding, so each photo is ~100 KB (.. way down from ~2 megs each in the camera).
This one is the biggest, at 146 KB. The zillions of lines of grass are hard to encode without using lots of bytes, even with encoding quality set lower.
This one is my favorite. This place is the coolest, being there. Kinda spiritual.
Hope you enjoy. The Back Bay is like my mental-health clinic. I go there to get away and lick my wounds. You'll usually find me there with a poet or two.
About 60,000 birds come to the Back Bay for the winter months .. from far away as Alaska.
Saw a coyote there this weekend. First one I've seen there. Big guy. Biggest coyote I've ever seen. Obviously well fed. Traipsing down the trail at a comfortable clip. Acting like he owned the place. The trickster.
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Got a few pictures of him, but they didn't come out well. My optical zoom is only 3X and I left the tripod home. Hard to get a clear hand-held picture at full zoom. Surprising how much better image quality a tripod can deliver.
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