Bosca Dubh

I’m on autopilot for the next 2 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–this may be the New York Times, but we’re in San Francisco, riding the BART to the airport and trying to burn through the end of a roll before we have to go through the security checkpoint (which is never a photographer’s friend).

I’m on autopilot for the next 3 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–this one from the line to get into the opening session of JavaOne.

I feel almost bad about posting this one, of a fellow geek in a compromising position. And it was entirely unintentional–I liked the way his profile and his newspaper framed the big multimedia monitors in the lounge area, and it was just bad luck that his finger ended up where it did. And don’t think I didn’t try with the magic of PhotoShop to move that finger a bit. I’m just not as good with PhotoShop as I am with XML.

And really, it’s a pretty good picture (if one sets aside the unfortunate finger): I like the tone, the shallow DOF, the blurs in the distance. If only he hadn’t felt that itch just then . . .

(I trust that true Java geeks don’t actually venture into this part of the Internet, where old cameras and odd stories abound, and he’ll never actually be identified . . .)

I’m on autopilot for the next 4 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–here’s one of the mysterious billboards that Ask.com put up this Spring. They’d like you to search for the algorithm here rather than here.

I’m on autopilot for the next 5 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–here’s a sign advertising the excuse I had for visiting San Francisco, the JavaOne conference (an odd place for a Luddite, I suppose, but part of me digs SOA and enterprise mash-ups…).

I’m on autopilot for the next 6 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–I can’t actually vouch for the quality of the hot cakes at this Market Street spot, since I went by too early in the morning for them to be open, but I can attest to the awesomeness of their sign.

I’m on autopilot for the next 7 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–here are some palm trees I spied on one of my early morning walks (an alien sight to one accustomed to Minnesota springs).

I’m on autopilot for the next 8 days, while we make our summer trip to Maine. We’ll be swimming in our favorite streams, steaming up Mount Washington, and dipping our toes in the Atlantic Ocean.

And so I’ll be featuring pictures from the other coast for the week–here’s the sign of a great travel bookshop on San Francisco’s Market Street. Get lost.

That’s the Golden Gate Bridge off in the distance, as seen over Fort Mason (I think; it was early, I had jet lag…). The Yashica doesn’t have a long lens, so there was no way to get a “postcard view” of the bridge from this hill, but I think this picture captures the stillness of an early morning along the shore.