[CA Roadtrip] As the fog settles and the sun sets…

…everything takes on a reddish hue…

[CA Roadtrip] Sunset over Big Sur

[CA Roadtrip] Lux dei ad lucem hominis

The Piedras Blancas lighthouse outside San Simeon as the sun starts to set.

[CA Roadtrip] Splash!

[CA Roadtrip] Cresting the wave

A surfer just outside of Monterey.

Theme sequence

Tomorrow early morning, I shall be undergoing tonsilectomy and a few additional modifications to my nose and throat, as a part of Stanford Hospital and Sleep Clinic trying to deal with my sleep apnea.

As such, I do not really expect to be in a photography or posting mood for a while, and thus will be serving up photos from our recent road trip through Big Sur to LA from last weekend.

These photos will come later than the 7 days in my original rules — but hopefully I can make up for that with the contents of the photos.

TTFN.

I can be kitschy too!

On semi-specific request from my beloved wife.

Abandoned gas pumps

In Los Alamos, CA. We stopped in the Saloon right next to this for some drinks and some shuffleboard.

Mary with a rosary

One would imagine that Mary would do well in communicating with Jesus even without using a rosary, especially as she is often used as the conduit to reach him…

Not so, according to the Carmel Mission statue, that is thoughtfully equipped with a rosary, lest she lose count of her “Hail Self”s.

Don't look at me!!

A shy pigeon just outside Monterey.

Big sur in the evening fog

A somewhat different perspective from yesterday. As magically and fairy-tale-like as before.

Big sur in the evening fog

A vision from a fairy tale, these rolling hills creeping up under the fog blanket they're hiding under.

Water pump

At the petrified forest in Calistoga

Lasercut loot: grassy pattern on tealight holder

Lasercut loot: poem on tealight holder

Etched into IKEA tealight holders.

Var inte rädd för mörkret
Ty ljuset vilar där.
Vi ser ju inga stjärnor
Där intet mörker är.

I ljusa irisiringen
Du bär en mörk pupill.
Ty mörkt är allt som ljuset
Med bävan längtar till.

Var inte rädd för mörkret
Ty ljuset vilar där.
Var inte rädd för mörkret,
som ljusets hjärta bär.

Lasercut loot: Acrylic inlays in wood

MALMA Mirror from IKEA. Knotwork and cavities for the inlays etched out with high settings on the laser cutter. Inlays cut out from same pattern, and epoxied in place. Knotwork painted with acrylic paint.

Lasercut loot: Mandelbrot and Julia in mirrored acrylic

Like dominoes, they fall

First, it was just one house sagging a little. Marshland underneath, solid foundations but nothing underneath it.

Later on, one by one, the neighbouring houses slipped along — in an eternally slow, infinitely gradual domino topple.

Not that the inhabitants let it bother them. San Francisco earthquakes happen on a swifter timescale than this.

Avian texture

A clutch of pigeons, all scrambling for the same bread, all spooked at the same time.

Goodbye TechShop SF

I've had a month long membership at TechShop SF, and have been using their laser cutters approx. 8h/week this entire month through.

Here one of my latest products from this time — the first 4 iterations of the Koch snowflake curve, cut out of mirrored, blue transparent, yellow-green neon transparent and red neon transparent acrylic.

My last day was today, and I bid them adieu with quite some melancholy. More photos of my various laser cut projects will appear here as I get around to photographing them all.

After the rain…

…even car windows look like star-spangled skies.

Hard and soft

Shadows.
Materials.

O'Farrell in a sunny daze

Defenestration

In San Francisco, at 6th/Mission, an entire house has been dedicated to an art-piece.

Lasercutter project

Another one of my latest TechShop laser cutter projects

Lasercutter project

One of my latest projects on the TechShop lasercutters.

Tenderloin fence

A glance.
A snapshot.

Macy's in the golden hour

Evening approaches in SOMA

Tenderloin rooftops

I had to ruminate on this one for quite a while. Finally, once Rubin had shown me the Gradient tool in Lightroom, I was able to capture both the dramatic sky and the run-down ruddy houses below it.

Sun sets on Geary

Harassment

One of the ceramic owls wasn't entirely like his peers, and boy did they make him know it!