Mendocino? I have a McGarrigle song about getting there. It must be a popular
subject in songs because of its scansion, as well as for its position and
beauty.
I take all your points, Moose, and I prefer the final one as it’s my aim to
capture roads like that sometimes, but I also like the silhouette job. I see
many of your photos on my MacBook, with its screen brightness turned slightly
down and not calibrated anyway. I’ll look again later on my iMac, which is
calibrated and whose brightness I try to maintain.
Finally, can you see the inconsistency in the phrase, “so I made sure it’s
visible” – how the tenses of the two verbs don’t match and how it should have
been “it was visible"? It seems to me that speakers of English, certainly Over
Here have lost the sense of time in their verbs. It started with the loss of
the pluperfect but now we have sentences in which time is not properly
represented by the tenses. Another example, mostly from the USA, is, “if I
knew that I wouldn’t have . . .” using the past instead of the pluperfect in
the first verb.
Oh well . . . Brexit (or Trump) are worse problems.
Chris
> On 29 Jun 18, at 22:07, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 6/28/2018 9:31 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
>> That panorama looks like a lonely place, Moose.
>
> Interesting. But not true. On the far right is a snippet of the main street
> of Mendocino, CA (AKA Cabot Cove, Maine, in the old TV series "Murder, She
> Wrote".)
>
> It's sunset on a Wednesday in February, so pretty quiet. On the weekend and
> in the summer, the area in front and down on the peninsula would be full of
> people walking the trails and the lone car would be several. The restaurant*
> filled up shortly after our 5:00 reservation, possibly because it was
> Valentine's Day. :-)
>
> If you click on the 'i' button, you should see a map inset that shows how the
> Mendocino Headlands SP surrounds the town. We owe it all, and the enduring
> charm of Mendocino, to the efforts of one woman, who rallied residents and
> visitors in the early '70s to fend off developers and preserve the wild(ish)
> area.
>
> A view looking back the other way.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Mendocino&image=_B007365rotcroofm.jpg
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Mendocino&image=_B007365rotcroofm.jpg>>
> Close to the same time relative to sunset, but later on the clock, as later
> in the year.
>
> A little longer FL. In addition to the folks enjoying the sunset on their
> balcony, you can see the sign for the bookstore** in front of which the
> 'lonely' image was shot.
>
>> I was pleased to see a dark foreground: I always thought that you preferred
>> to raise the lighting.
>
> I pay a fair amount of attention to dark foregrounds. I generally like there
> to be something there to see, no matter how subtle (exception below). In this
> Mendocino photo, the small, bright flowers against a little texture do that.
> But it's tricky. Most of my viewers see my images on screens - with varying
> brightness settings.
>
> The way mine shows this has the detail of the run/taxiways just barely
> visible. <https://photos.app.goo.gl/T5Uv7fcV8ujkRqPV7
> <https://photos.app.goo.gl/T5Uv7fcV8ujkRqPV7>> But I imagine there are those
> here who would see them as fairly bright and others who would see almost all
> black. Prints have similar problems. Ones that look good on our walls lit by
> indirect daylight look too dark at night, without special lighting.
>
> This was taken with the intent to be silhouette, with the foreground black.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Mendocino&image=_A001072croofm.jpg
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Mendocino&image=_A001072croofm.jpg>>
>
> I think the road "makes" this one, so I made sure it's visible.
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Marinoma&image=_B003204rotcroof40.jpg
>
> <http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=California/Marin%2C_Sonoma%2C_Mendocino_Coast/Marinoma&image=_B003204rotcroof40.jpg>>
>
> Shadowy Moose
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