Compared to yesterday, we really didn’t do much. Drove around via Waze looking for coffee since the coffee shop in the hotel is, not good. We ended up crossing the Golden Gate Bridge and getting some caffeine at Starbucks (not my favorite, but it was the only one with parking or a drive through). After we killed some time sipping coffee we went to meet her friend Jen (from high school) to take a tour bus to Muir Redwoods National Monument.
Jamie and Jen seemed okay on the way up, but there was a woman a seat up and right of me that was hanging on with all she had not to fill her sports bottle with breakfast. On the way back down, I think the ladies were both feeling it a little.
I took a crap ton of images, and I really like almost all of them. I used my Pentax D-FA 28-105 most of the way up, then swapped out for the HD Pentax FA 10-17 for the walk back. I just love that wonky wide angle fish eye lens. It really opens the door to a creative license that you just don’t have with a traditional lens.
Lets see what images lined up first.
Here are a bunch more pictures while we walked around.
Settling in on camera settings.
Hold onto your socks folks, Jamie and Jen stepped
up to bat and knocked these pictures out of the park (aka: This was fun 🙂 ).
It was a lot of fun to see Jamie and Jen catching up with old stories and gossip. Now for the last of the “normal” images.
Once I put the fish-eye lens on, I really started to have fun (and weird people out by how close I had to get to things).
We stopped at the Golden Gate to get some images, but it turned out to be “FRIGGIN’ COLD!” so we shot and ran back to the car.
That’s all folks. Not a ton of words to go with today. I am wind burnt, full of really good Italian food (The Italian Homemade Company). Walked around that part of town, stepped into a bar with the least amount of drunk Millennial people screaming, and ordered drinks. They had Basketball on full blast so that was annoying. When it was over Jamie asked for Hockey, they put hockey on, shut the sound off, and cranked the music. Kind of a dick move because there were two very drunk couples there, and they did had the basket ball cranked to high heaven. Pretty much a dick move if you ask me, but the drinks were small and expensive, so there’s that (I do not recommend The Comet Club in San Francisco – The image on the website does not represent what it looked like inside).
We fly out tomorrow so we’ve got to actually get up before 10am (we haven’t slept that late here yet). I am looking forward to my own bed, shower, and utter lack of traffic.
Take a vacation if you can, I highly recommend them.
~me
