Park Street Bridge 2

Another view of the Park Street draw bridge.

Park Street Bridge

Park Street draw bridge in Alameda, Ca.  One of three draw bridges serving the city.

Alameda City Hall in the center..

Kites on the Beach

A beautiful day and windy weather meant many kites on the beach.  Both on land and in the water driving folks on surfboards.

Shop Fronts

Early morning before start of business.

Alameda City Hall

Alameda City Hall in the morning.

Alameda Towne Centre at Night #2

Another night shot of the local shopping center.  I like the colors in this one.   Looks southwestern..

Abandoned buildings at the former Naval Air Station in Alameda.

Fruitvale Bridge #3

This was taken with a Nikon D-7000.   A cloudy morning but some foreground light recovered via HDR.

Alameda Theatre

 The recently revived Alameda Theatre.   It had shut down while a crummy duplex theatre existed at the shopping center.  Now it's back in almost its former glory (it was turned into a multiplex as single screen theatres just can't make it these days).

Fruitvale Bridge #2

Another HDR photo of the Frutivale bridge.   This was shot with a Nikon D-100, Nikon's first prosumer grade DSLR.

Fruitvale Bridge #1

This is one of my first HDR images.   This is the Fruitvale Bridge, a combination auto and railroad drawbridge.  The auto drawbridge is down and the railroad drawbridge is up.

By using HDR I was able to capture the sky and reflections in the water and made them look to have the same brightness.

A view of San Francisco taken from an Alameda beach.

This is an example of a High Dynamic Range (HDR) photograph.  It's a composition of three photographs taken in sequence, each with a different exposure.    I'll have more to say about HDR in a later post.



View Larger Map