A few posts back Gayle contributed an image of a tattered stick underneath the Dumbarton Bridge. I was out that way on Sunday and while poking about I came apon Gayle’s under much different circumstances. While Gayle’s photo of the stick had a delightful Ray Bradbury-desolation-of-Mar’s quality to it, mine seems as though on vacation at the Copacabana.

An incoming tide laps at the stick.

It was a remasrkably calm and balmy afternoon out in the salt ponds. I hiked down to the Hetch Hetchy pipeline with my new fisheye KAP rig hoping to stage its maiden flight over the pipeline and railroad. After rigging my largest kite I waited for an hour or so for winds to arrive but the never really did. I was forced to take a nap. The highest altitude obtained by the camera rig was about eight feet.

There was no wind to lift the camera so here is a handheld shot at the edge of one of the salt ponds. Note that you can see the sky as a blue ring around the entire periphery of the circular image.

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