Boat Photos
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Taxi Dancer in the Santa Barbara Harbor
The breakwater at the Santa Barbara Harbor is a great place for an evening walk. Of course you have to be willing to risk a rouge wave making you a little wet, but usually it's possible to navigate without getting too much of a shower. Last night it looked like there was potential for a nice sunset, initially the clouds didn't get as much color as I'd hoped for. But a little patience and some long exposures a little later paid off with some evening shots of the beautiful crafts wating for their next outing. Taxi Dancer (in the foreground) in particular looks like it would make for a fun (and fast) sail up the coast.
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Sunset Cypress
The windswept trees along our coast are all works of art in their own right. This little Cypress is between two of its absolutely massive big brothers at Butterfly beach. Even though it's much younger than the others you can still see the beginnings of the windswept character that make them so beautiful. The amazing view of Santa Barbara in the background doesn't hurt either.
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Gone Fishin'
This week was great for fishing, at least if you're a Brown Pelican in the Santa Barbara area. There are almost always pelicans feeding off the coast here, but there must have been some impressive schools of fish off of Butterfly Beach a few nights ago. The two Pelicans on the surface behind the dive bombers just surfaced from their dives and there must have been hundreds of attempts. If you look closely to the left of the photo you can see a nose sticking out of the water of what I believe must be a sea otter. But it's hard to say since I was paying so much attention to the Pelicans I did not actually see him until I looked at the photo.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Christmastime in Santa Barbara
Ahh Christmastime in Santa Barbara, when everyone decorates their... umm.. rigging? Which of course makes the beautiful Santa Barbara Harbor even more enjoyable than usual.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Sandpiper Sunset Over Haskells
A beautiful sunset over Haskell's beach from Sandpiper golf Course.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Panoramic Santa Barbara
Panoramic view of Santa Barbara from Santa Barbara City College. On the right you can see the Santa Barbara Harbor and Stearns Wharf. All the way on the left peeking out from under the fronds is the Santa Barbara Courthouse Clock Tower.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Breakwater Sunset
I particularly like this shot from the breakwater because it shows the rough waves on the outside, and the relativly tranquil waters in the harbor.
Thursday, June 28, 2012
Harbor View Panorama
The Santa Barbara Harbor, a great place to be whether you have a boat or not. Aside from the great selection of restaurants, it's a wonderful place to just wander and enjoy the ocean and the views of the city.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Santa Barbara Harbor Sailboats
Whenever I feel like wandering around aimlessly with my camera the Harbor is one of my favorite spots for a stroll. This was an image I took a couple of months ago around the same time I shot a massive panorama of the harbor. Sometimes the individual images wait around until I get all the huge projects done. It's times like now that I enjoy going back and seeing what else I may have missed. Especially because I have a bit of a cold so I thought better of running around in the cool weather with my camera this weekend. I have to get healthy since we are supposed to have the storm to end all storms sometime starting in the next day or so and I want to be well enough to go play in the snow. It's really important to never grow up too much!
Monday, November 3, 2008
Santa Barbara Lights
Click the main image for a larger view.
This is the third and last shot from our walk on the breakwater
the other evening. (Actually it's 48 shots but who's counting?)
It was an amazingly beautiful evening. And I was happy to get out to the
breakwater this late since I have been pondering a shot like this for a while.
If you would like a quick tour of our beautiful home, read on...
The water on the left is the inside of the Harbor.
The buildings from yesterday's photo of the day
and the day before are just on the other side of the harbor
at the left. You can see the tall white flood lights of the Santa Barbara
City College field.
The field of view in this image is 248° so the flags that
you see at the left and the very right are acutally (more or less)
in a straight line. Straight out the rock breakwater in the middle
of the shot is the entrance to the harbor. And, some of the bright lights
on the other side of the entrance are along Stearn's Wharf.
The large bright white light further to the right is another ball field.
The glow going up the mountain is the lights of the city, and you can see
our evening fog rolling in
especially at the right over the bright white light.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Sunset at the Yacht Club
This was taken just a couple minutes after yesterday's photo of the day. The Santa Barbara Yacht Club has a great spot on the beach and a beautiful building. I have walked past it often and pondered a sunset shot. But I never had the timing just right until now.
Saturday, November 1, 2008
Brophy Brothers at the Santa Barbara Harbor
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We were feeling like a harbor walk the other evening.
And, it was looking like a nice night for some pictures.
Of course I think every night is a nice night to take
pictures. Even when it's raining... especially when
it's raining. Looking outside right now, I might get some
rain shots sometime in the near future. Although the last couple
of nights it has waited until quite late to shower.
Anyway, the building at the left has, among other things,
a great restaurant called Brophy Brothers where you can sit
on the veranda up stairs
and look out over the harbor. Been a while since I
had a meal there. But I still remember the clam chowder. It was
quite good. And the view is worth the trip too.
Sunday, June 29, 2008
Theresa Ann
Another shot from our recent wanderings at the Santa Barbara harbor. It's a nice peaceful scene, but just to my left was a popular restaurant on a balcony overlooking the harbor. There were lots of people around waiting to get in and having a good time. Next time I'll get an image that includes the restaurants.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Santa Barbara Sunset Harbor
We spent a couple of evenings walking around the Harbor
watching the sun set this week. I think I could take a walk at the Harbor
and the Wharf every night with my camera and never get bored.
Every evening when I get home each photo that I love
gives me the ideas for three more next time.
This one was partially inspired by another vertical panorama
I took at the harbor almost two years ago.
It was later in the evening when I took that one, and you
can see the stars. But at the time I wondered what it would look like
from the other direction with the sunset sky. Now I have my answer!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Santa Barbara Harbor Sunset view from the Breakwater
Another beautiful sunset and another massive image. If you look closely you can see stearns wharf in the image off to the right. (if you have Flash 9 installed, you can use the up arrow to zoom in)
Friday, October 19, 2007
Harbor Earth Shadow
I really love this shot and all the others I took along with it.
It was a great evening right after a Photography show
walking with my dad at the Santa Barbara harbor.
Aside from the beauty of the scene and the great memories it brings
back (as most of my photos do for me), I like the science
in this shot. If you poke around the photo of the day
it's not hard to notice
other
evidence of
the left side of my brain creeping into my photography.
In this case, the dark blue near the horizon that
slopes upward to the left is what intrigues me.
It is actually the shadow of the Earth. As the sun was
slipping further below the horizon behind me
on my right side, it still lit the atmosphere above me.
It is easiest to see this effect looking out over the
ocean so there are no hills or even buildings and trees to block it.
BTW, I finally got back to the photo of the day
thanks to a really nice post
the other day from Mary Ann. Always wonderful to
know people are enjoying my creativity.
One of the many things I was doing in my absence
was working on a new gallery site of my Santa Barbara
photos... www.ImagesOfSantaBarbara.com.
Thanks again Mary Ann!
Sunday, October 8, 2006
Harbor Light
Another sunset shot from the harbor. The evenings have been really beautiful lately. This is a good time of year to be a photographer. In fact, the only bad thing is I did so much photography work last week I did not get other things done. I hope to have many more weeks like that. :-D
Friday, October 6, 2006
Starlight Harbor
It was a full moon tonight, a really full moon.
My wife read online that the moon was going to look
as much as 12% bigger than other times. (The reason
for this is the fact that it is near the low point
in it's slightly elliptical orbit.) So we thought it would be a
good evening for some evening shots.
The sun was gone when I took this, just a faint glow behind me.
The glow to the left of the photo is from the full moon.
And the stars are clearly visible.
This is not a new type of shot for me. But it is just about a
first with my digital camera. I can usually pull this off pretty
well with film, but the digital was a little more temperamental.
Actually, it is just what you get used to. Now that I know how
it likes to be treated, I think I'll be using it a lot more
this way.
Friday, September 29, 2006
Breakwater Sunset
This evening we took a nice sunset walk on the breakwater around the Santa Barbara
Harbor. The clouds were beautiful and the lights on the water made for some great photos.
It's finally getting to that time of year where we have enough moisture in the
air to make some interesting clouds.
'Course the huge wild fire doesn't hurt the
sunsets either. It's about 35 miles from us, but it still looked like it was snowing
here one day from all of the ash.
Saturday, July 1, 2006
Catamaran Beach
Another Santa Barbara sunset shot taken a few minutes after yesterday's.
Sunday, December 25, 2005
Pelican Christmas
You have any idea how many fish I had to give him to get
him to pose like that? He drove an especially
hard bargain when it came to wearing the hat!
Merry Christmas!
Monday, October 31, 2005
Santa Barbara Sunset
We live in an odd little spot on the coast. If you look at a map of the California coastline there is a small area that runs from east to west. That is where Santa Barbara is. As a result, the sun does not set over the water as you would expect it to on the west coast. Moving straight out from the coast, once you pass the channel islands about 25 miles out, the closet land is Antarctica.
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Old Sea Center
Just went to the new Sea Center recently, it is very cool.
This one burned down but they had been planning on remodeling anyway.
If you are ever in the Santa Barbara area this is a great place
to learn about the Ocean, especially if you bring kids!
This shot was taken the same evening as this one.
Sunday, October 9, 2005
Harbor Moonrise
You can see the moon coming up on the right side of the photo, through the fog. This was an amazing night to take pictures.
Tuesday, May 17, 2005
Day at the Beach
This is actually from last summer, but it felt so much like summer around here yesterday I was feeling in the mood. That water is looking better and better at 90 degrees with no A/C!
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