San Diego: day one

The very first thing we visited in San Diego was.. as usual, the ocean:-)

Then we walked around:

Had some rest on  stairs of local restaurants, slowly getting hungry:

And walked again:

Found a skeleton of a giant iron fish:

Had fun in a giant tree  roots:
 
 
I found how common San Diego vehicle looks like. Why you guys need two steering wheels?

Eventually

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Santa Barbara

We had a great time in this famous to all post-USSR folks  town:  Soap movie “Santa Barabara”, one of the movies which were introduced in late 1990 to Soviet people. 80% of population watched it.
We met Devon from C’T Digital photography magazine, their US office in Santa Barbara:

Devon is a product manager of C`T Digital photography:

 Then we had a

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Driving highway one

From Santa Cruz to Santa Barbara, it took us about 6 hours to make it. Many stops on a Highway one overlooks (Vista points) , but still we did not stop as many times as wanted. last two hours were driven in a darkness.
Genia snapped a quick pic with our little Nikon P&S camera:

And this what I’ve

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Yesterday we visited Stanford

many shots, but only this one is ready, as I shoot multi-exposures exclusively :-)
 

First day: Streets of San Francisco and golden gate

After 5 hour sleep (kids where up at 5;30AM , time zones are not for them:) we went to San Francisco and spent few hours walking streets and riding this bus:

 
and shooting this bridge:

And driving the car in between:
 

 
60Gb of photos in 3 hours. Going to buy HDD for the rest of the trip:-)
Leaving hotel

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PhotoWalk at San Francisco today at 3PM

Flying in the dark

Just a status update:Today at 3PM we’ll have a PhotoWalk at Marin Headlands area of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. An approximate area is on the map, but I am not sure where parking is. Once arrived, I’ll post an exact location.Will see you guys in a few hours!
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 Te shot from yesterday flight:

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Flying...

Hello from 10000 feet. Right from a plane:-)I was crazy enough to get my fisheye with me, snapped the shot, imported into tablet pc, got delta on the go internet and.. here you go-)

 
 
 

Boarding

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Many, many people around:-)
Btw, this is DROID2 Hers.

Photographer's travel backpack: what to take with for a trip?

Packing now, and this is what I’ve got so far:

Some items are questionable

 Backpack - Lowepro 300 AW
Canon 5d Mark 2 + canon 8-15mm F4.0L Fisheye
Canon 70-200mm F2.8L
Canon 17-40mm F4.0L
Canon 24-70mm F2.8L
Canon 14mm F2.8L
Canon charger
Battery pack for canon grip
Canon angle finder – this is a really cool thing to shoot from crazy angles.. useful especially with fisheye
Manfrotto 055XPROB Aluminum Tripod  + Benro

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California PhotoWalks schedule

Ok, below is  the plan. We can shift some events based on the weather.

San Francisco:  Saturday, 19th November at 3PM around  Golden bridge. The Marine Headlands area of Golden Gate Park (North of the Bridge) has pretty good parking.
Santa Barbara: Tuesday 22nd of November around 11AM.  Will start from  pier and will go somewhere:-)
San Diego: We’ll staying from

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Our 2011 trip to California: Lets get together for photowalk, meetup, workshop? Any ideas are welcome!

We (me, Genia Larionova and our two little models, Sonia and Lillia) planing a trip to California this November, from 18th to 27th.
The plan is to travel by the coastline, form San Francisco all the way south to San Diego.  We will stay few days in bay area, then drive south, stopping for a day

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