Beautiful.
Are you there now, Ken?Ken Bondy - 10-25-2008 at 11:23 AM
I wish judy!! It's been a long time. That was probably taken about 20 years ago.
++Ken++Iflyfish - 10-25-2008 at 11:33 AM
Wow! It's about the light....and location, location, location....I love your work!
IflyfishDianaT - 10-25-2008 at 02:44 PM
It was worth getting up early---a really beautiful photo
DianeBaja&Back - 10-25-2008 at 04:25 PM
Hey! We snorkel off that rock point in the pic every winter. Schools of THOUSANDS of fish in 10 feet of clear water. Fabulous place!! duke62 - 10-25-2008 at 10:50 PM
Amazing photo.
20 years ago? So you were a little kid with a Brownie?Ken Bondy - 10-26-2008 at 06:29 AM
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Originally posted by duke62
Amazing photo.
20 years ago? So you were a little kid with a Brownie?
Ha!! No, I was pushing 50 with a Nikon F5 (or maybe an 8008)
++Ken++
Beautiful Cape Morning photo, Ken...
Pompano - 10-26-2008 at 08:04 AM
...May I join you on morning photos?
...the other side of the peninsula...Not 20 years ago, though, but yesterday's dawning on the Baja Road between Catavina and El Rosario.
wiltonh - 10-26-2008 at 09:14 AM
La Ventana Camp Ground.
bill erhardt - 10-26-2008 at 09:14 AM
Another daybreak shot at Catavinia. This off Mex 1 a couple of years ago on the way home from Florida with a new boat.
Ken Bondy - 10-26-2008 at 09:18 AM
Fabulous morning shots Roger, wiltonh and bill!! Roger your #1 is one of my favorite spots on the peninsula. My kids started calling it the "rock
garden part" of the drive. Thanks you guys for posting these.
++Ken++bill erhardt - 10-26-2008 at 09:37 AM
And another East Cape sunrise. This one reflected on the door of my room at the Hideaway at El Cardonal, about 4 miles north of Punta Pescadero.
Ken Bondy - 10-26-2008 at 09:40 AM
Wow!!! bill that last one is a masterpiece!! You are a world class fisherman AND photographer!! ++Ken++CaboKimberly - 10-26-2008 at 09:46 AM
What wonderful pictures.Skipjack Joe - 10-26-2008 at 10:43 PM
Bill, I gotta agree with Ken on that last one.
That's a wonderful image. I went back to it several times to see how you put it all together. Sunrise as a reflection... the frame of vines ... And
colors all complement one another so well in an understated way.
And best of all is it's simplicity.
The hanging rock
Skipjack Joe - 10-27-2008 at 04:55 AM
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Originally posted by Pompano
Roger,
Perhaps you can tell us the history of the hanging rock in your picture.
I first noticed it in Tom Miller's guide books to baja. We always looked for it on the way south. Then, one year I couldn't find the landmark. We
drove back and forth along the highway until I noticed that the granite on one of the boulders was grey and sparkly. It became apparent that someone
had blown the side of the rock right off the highway.
I figured the bigger trucks that soon appeared after the highway was built were clipping it.
Road Rage Rock
Pompano - 10-27-2008 at 05:35 AM
Igor, I noticed the change in that boulder 'overhang', too.
I also had noticed in recent years that it was being 'tagged' repeatedly by rude defacings. They would be painted out with a rock-matching paint
color, but the graffiti would reappear very quickly. These events happened for about 2-3 years before the boulder's surface facing the highway was
chiseled off.
I was 'told' and do believe some officials simply took away the vandal's 'easel' and did the same to a lot of other rock faces in that area. Too
bad..an old Baja-traveler's custom that got a little too mean-spirited.
I would like to think that it was chiseled for the sake of the larger modern truck traffic..but really cannot say one way or the other with
certainty.
I suspect it may be part of each. Too bad..either way, a familiar old Baja face has been changed.
Natalie Ann - 10-27-2008 at 07:45 AM
What a beautiful morning on the Cape - you captured it perfectly, Ken. It was the first photo I saw through my sleepy eyes this morning - had me
wakin' right up in the Baja dream, it did! Thank you ever so much for sharing your back-then morning.
And Bill.... well, that sunrise shot is stunning, absolutely stunning. You really do have some surprises in your photo collection, and I believe this
is my favorite so far. Thank you.
Nena
After the Tempest
bill erhardt - 10-28-2008 at 02:10 PM
Thanks for the kind words on the El Cardonal shot. This sunrise was not so placid as Hurricane John swept past Loreto and on across the sea to Sonora.
Shelter Island dawn
Pompano - 10-30-2008 at 01:59 PM
A good port and anchorage for Baja sailors when up north .. San Diego's Shelter Island. Here's some morning photos to add to this thread.
