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Sourh Fork of the Stanislaus

Skipjack Joe - 11-29-2009 at 10:13 PM

The sun entered the canyon in the midday bringing it's warmth and colors. Alex watches the current float the dry to good looking water.

Skipjack Joe - 11-29-2009 at 10:15 PM

That plunge pool looks promising.

I just sit and watch the shadows lengthen.


Skipjack Joe - 11-29-2009 at 10:17 PM

Didn't know alders grew to have such marvelous colors.


Skipjack Joe - 11-29-2009 at 10:19 PM

Dawgs at Sand Bar Flat.


Barry A. - 11-29-2009 at 11:30 PM

Wow, great pics SkipJack------------of everything!!! :yes:

Barry

DianaT - 11-29-2009 at 11:40 PM

Beautiful---really nice. Such a peaceful scene. Always loved watching my boys fly fish.

Thanks

Skipjack Joe - 11-30-2009 at 12:15 AM

Thank you Barry and Diane.

Pompano used to create a fall thread every year. I've missed it's absence recently and decided to add these.

Sept - Oct is my favorite time to be up there.

Diver - 11-30-2009 at 07:08 AM

Thanks for sharing your precious father/son moments.
It's great watching Alex grow up so well.
What a great dad !!!

And the pictures ..... I'm right there with ya.

BigWooo - 11-30-2009 at 07:38 AM

Great photos. There is life outside Baja :spingrin:


I'm glad we have the ability to post non-Baja photos. I've really enjoyed seeing them.

shari - 11-30-2009 at 08:06 AM

spectacular photos...gracias...makes me kinda miss fall a bit. Alex is getting so big and such a fisher!!! I can just hear the trickling stream......

Pompano - 11-30-2009 at 08:51 AM

Great scenes of the south fork in a beautiful part of California, Igor! Simple and elegant..the way it was meant to be. Those browns are just icing on the cake.

Meet me this next spring/summer Up North. Bring Alex. We'll share some adventures on the Hanson Lake Road, Yukon Trail...and other fishy places!

Iflyfish - 11-30-2009 at 09:55 AM

What a wonderful series of photos. Felt like I was there. What a great dad you are!!

Iflyfish

Skipjack Joe - 11-30-2009 at 08:00 PM

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Originally posted by shari
Alex is getting so big and such a fisher!!!


I miss the old days, though. Just below Sonora Pass.

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Skipjack Joe - 11-30-2009 at 08:03 PM

Even the not so long ago was pretty good.

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Ken Bondy - 11-30-2009 at 08:32 PM

Great stuff Igor!! Beautiful!!

Santiago - 11-30-2009 at 10:52 PM

The cape is too much. :)
My wife says she wore out many a tee shirt safety pinning towels and sheets to them so they could have a cape. The teen years can be tough, but that too, will pass.

stimbo - 11-30-2009 at 11:16 PM

Those were great... thanks for sharing. They are gone too quickly with lives of their own. Your images captured some fine memories. Good job!

tripledigitken - 12-1-2009 at 09:02 AM

Igor,

What great memories you have captured there. I hope you have a backup/storage system for your photos. Losing shots like these would be painful.

Ken

Natalie Ann - 12-1-2009 at 09:12 AM

Aw Igor - you've got me all choked up with those pix of Alex. Over the years it's been so fun to watch Nomad children grow - and your boy with his love of the outdoors and fishing is one of my favorites.

A few days ago I was in Bishop and had the opportunity to again visit Barbara and Galen Rowell's Mountain Light Gallery. That all-natural warm-yet-bright light which shines beneath and through your Stanislaus shots reminds me of Rowell's work. Mountain Light.... unlike any other. Darn good job, amigo!

nena

Skipjack Joe - 12-1-2009 at 11:00 AM

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Originally posted by tripledigitken
Igor,

What great memories you have captured there. I hope you have a backup/storage system for your photos. Losing shots like these would be painful.

Ken


I have something to say on this subject.

1) First of all I have come to realize that images change their value over time in an unpredictable way. Snapshots I used to dismiss and throw away have become imeasurably more valuable than I could have imagined. Many of them were photographic zeros. Blurred images with some bright object in the center. On the other hand, the nature shots I prized all these years have dropped in overall importance, especially as the digital world has made them more obsolete. Go figure. I've been reappraising my value system.

2) There are so many past images that at some point in time you realize that as you sort through your past you are losing your present. Life moves on and grabbing a hold of it with an image is satisfying but also futile. I have black and whites from my parents in the 30's that need to be sorted, which is also on the back burner. I don't like to throw away images and I like it all to be organized but at some point in time you just have to left go.

"Wilson, I'm sorry"

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Sharksbaja - 12-1-2009 at 11:35 AM

Your son is lucky to have a father/pal that shares and values fishing trips.

Funny how your offspring turns out. My dad saturated me with countless trips to the Kern Plateau and the John Muir Trail to the point of rediculous.

Looking back though it's interesting because while I did/do love to fish, my sons could care less. Maybe that's because the beauty and freedom of space, beauty and privacy here in Oregon are a common and abundant thing. Not like SoCal.

I think most people take their surruondings for granted and fail to look beyond the fence. You are a good dad/pal to show him what's on the other side.

Thanks for sharing your poignant photos.

A real shame the dams halted the salmon runs.

Natalie Ann - 12-1-2009 at 11:38 AM

On saving photos, slides, images.....

Awhile back I had a massive computer crash and for awhile it seemed that each and every one of my Baja photos was lost. Tore up my heart, it did.... brought lots of tears.

With some cash outflow and the assistance of someone with special expertise, those photos were regained. Since that time I back up all my photos.... once to a large computer drive and once again to dvd. The best are stored to a paid photo storage site.

I no longer care if all images are sorted before storing. If sorting is necessary, I'm sure to have some of my older old age to do that. Right now I find it important to be able to go back and look at those images, just the way we used to enjoy slide shows shown on a sheet hung on the wall or an exploration through the box of old family pictures.

My mother recently passed. Those pix of her growing up years and of my years with her brought up so many memories, were so much fun to see again. I think I'll continue to save even those images I consider 'snapshots'. They show 'how things were'.... which most often brings a smile to my heart.

nena

Baja12valve - 12-1-2009 at 03:30 PM

Sonora Pass. Brings back many memories. I have ridden my bicycle up Sonora Pass many times, both solo and with my wife on our tandem, from Murphys. Quite difficult.

wessongroup - 12-1-2009 at 04:12 PM

couldn't agree more Natalie Ann, good you got yours back...:):)

tripledigitken - 12-1-2009 at 06:03 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Natalie Ann
On saving photos, slides, images.....

Awhile back I had a massive computer crash and for awhile it seemed that each and every one of my Baja photos was lost. Tore up my heart, it did.... brought lots of tears.

With some cash outflow and the assistance of someone with special expertise, those photos were regained. Since that time I back up all my photos.... once to a large computer drive and once again to dvd. The best are stored to a paid photo storage site.

I no longer care if all images are sorted before storing. If sorting is necessary, I'm sure to have some of my older old age to do that. Right now I find it important to be able to go back and look at those images, just the way we used to enjoy slide shows shown on a sheet hung on the wall or an exploration through the box of old family pictures.

My mother recently passed. Those pix of her growing up years and of my years with her brought up so many memories, were so much fun to see again. I think I'll continue to save even those images I consider 'snapshots'. They show 'how things were'.... which most often brings a smile to my heart.

nena


I went through the exact same thing Nena. Hard drive took a dump. I was panicked because only about 10% of my photos are on Smugmug. I enlisted our IT guy at work and many pesos later I got them all back. I started with external hard drives myself, but unfortuneatly they take a dump also.

Offsite backup is what I have found to be the answer for me. Several companies are out there I use Carbonite, at $55 per year it is continually backing up your computer without any prompts and will painlessly transfer all files into a new computer when your current one dies, which it will!

Losing digital file/pictures doesn't have to happen and the solutions arn't really that expensive.

Ken

Now organizing pictures allready taken.......................maybe after I retire.

Skipjack Joe - 12-2-2009 at 11:44 AM

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Originally posted by Sharksbaja

Looking back though it's interesting because while I did/do love to fish, my sons could care less. Maybe that's because the beauty and freedom of space, beauty and privacy here in Oregon are a common and abundant thing. Not like SoCal.



Sharks, I think (am pretty sure) it's a genetic thing.

Like obssesive compulsive behavior. Like being able to smoke casually while others get hooked.

Alex isn't particularly predisposed to fishing, either. He doesn't have the fishing bug as bad as I did, or baitcast, or pescador. You can tell from reading the posts who have it. Juan Arce has it and it's obvious when you talk to the man.

There are people who won't stop for sandwich while fishing. They'll pick up the rod between bites. I would often go out in my boat in baja and not be aware of the day until 5PM or so. Never even think of eating lunch. Time just stood still. All else is blocked out.