Sonoma, California - December 2011: Armstrong
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Armstrong Redwoods with Adam and Jill's daughter. |
Balancing on a fallen redwood trunk. |
 Adam and his daughter among the redwood giants. |
 The charming kids in a redwood log in Armstrong Redwoods near Guerneville, Sonoma County, California. |
 The redwood giants, which grow to be over 2000 years old. Armstrong Redwoods is located near Guerneville, just a few miles from the Pacific Ocean. |
Here, Adam and his son sat still for ten seconds in this unusual photo. For fun, I took a few of the photos on my trip with a technique called long exposure, keeping the shutter open for long durations. This technique keeps stationary objects sharp while blurring, smearing, or even obscuring elements that are moving. In these photos, the moving waves of the Pacific appear ethereal and otherworldly. Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens, two Tiffen 0.9 neutral density filters, F/36, 10-second exposure, ISO 200. Read a little more about this photo on my photography blog on Wordpress.
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Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens, two Tiffen 0.9 neutral density filters, F/36, 5-second exposure, ISO 200. Read a little more about this photo on my photography blog on Wordpress. |
Nikon D90, Nikkor 18-200mm VR lens, two Tiffen 0.9 neutral density filters, F/32, 10-second exposure, ISO 200. Read a little more about this photo on my photography blog on Wordpress. |
 Adam and his son at Goat Rock Beach near the mouth of the Russian River in Sonoma. |
 Adam and his daughter as the sun melts into the horizon for the last time in 2011. |
Later that evening, Lisa, Adam and I went to the River Theater in Guerneville to welcome in Year 2012 with Fee Waybill and The Tubes. |
 The following Sunday morning, we hit the road. But not too far along in Sebastapol, we stopped to see some more folk art sculptures one more time. This is Shark Truck, made by Patrick Amiot of Sebastapol from a 1940s International. |
The Tin Man by Patrick Amiot is one of the recycled artworks for sale at the new Renga Arts Gallery, Sebastopol. |
 George, our faithful traveling companion, is crazy about pea soup, so we stopped off at Pea Soup Andersen's in Santa Nella so he could split some peas and amuse some bikers. |
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Saturday morning, New Year's Eve, we met up with our friends Adam and Jill and their two kids, and headed out to Armstrong Redwood State Natural Reserve near Guerneville. Although this photo looks like I really yanked up the contrast, this is actually the way it looked in person.
Adam drove us up to Goat Rock Beach, part of Sonoma Coast State Beach, located near the mouth of the Russian River south of Jennings, not far from Fort Ross, where the Russians formerly had a military outpost.
This is another long exposure shot of the rocks at Goat Rock Beach during the setting sun, again captured by leaving the shutter open for five seconds to create the otherworldly misty look of the waves pounding the rocks. This is a technique that I used last year at 
Adam and his son gazing out at the crescent-shaped bay at Goat Rock Beach, watching the sun set for the last time in 2011. This photo uses the same long exposure technique as described above.
For some reason, I didn't take a photo of Jill, so here's one with her son about four and a half years ago.
