Storm Clouds Passing Morro Bay

The clouds were quite dramatic over Morro Bay at the end of this week, and lunchtime provided a good excuse to get outside on the beach and take some HDR panoramas.  Here are a couple of the results - they lose some of the effect when compressed for the web page, but the originals are relatively large images - 4 panels each.

Two Views - Morro Bay

Here are two versions of the same scene - Morro Bay fishing boats.  Photos were taken at lunch between the storm systems earlier this week with a little point and shoot Pentax camera.

Oak Trees in Black and White

Here are a few oak tree photos and details from the last weekend.

Shell Creek Wildflowers March 2013

I took my first trip of the year to Shell Creek looking for wildflowers.  Not much in the way of flowers right now - just a few scattered Baby Blue Eyes.  It's awful dry out in east San Luis Obispo county, and we could really use more rain.  So the jury is still out on how the wildflower bloom will develop for this year.

I had to work hard to get photos - down on my belly with the macro lens.  The photo below gives an overall sense of the wildflower cover right now.

Duck!

It was 75 degrees F (briefly) in Morro Bay yesterday, and the ducks were relaxing in the calm waters of Morro Creek.

Storm Clouds Over Templeton

We don't often get thunderstorms in Central California - unlike New Mexico or the mid-west.  So dramatic clouds are something us photographers go "chasing" when they are around.  The sky on Friday evening did not light up with color, but the cloud display was great.  Here are a few examples

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