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Actually the horizon pictured is more than two years old, taken from the last whale-watching expedition I went on with my friend Cybele back in January 2006. I offer it up mainly as a random grab from my archives, but also one very weather-appropriate: it was warm enough today to wish I’d been out there on the open water.

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Instead of Jefferson up past the Target, I now roll home up Sepulveda to the Ballona Creek Bikeway and come across it to either Overland or Duquesne.  Last night in the near-pitch black I was struck by the curving course of the waterway under the arching ped/bike bridge spanning it and stopped about midway between Sepulveda and Overland to brace the cam against the ragged chainlink for this 15-second exposure.

Storming on the ride home Sunday night I amused myself by pointing and shooting several frames. This is my fave of the bunch (click to quadrupilate):

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The dome of St. Vincent de Paul Church at the corner of Adams and Figueroa.

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One of my favorite buildings downtown, beautifully restored, but now as homes not offices.

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Snapped Wednesday morning at 4th and Vermont while on the way to work.

As macro-snapped on the sill outside the window of my office at 11:24 a.m. this morning (click to quadruplate):

Occasionally I’ll scroll back through the time machine that is my photo archive and in this case I ended up all the way back to early 2004 before slingshotting back forward to the summer of 2005 and our Africa trip, in particular this shot taken on our last morning in Zanzibar when I waded out a few hundred yards nto the Indian Ocean at daybreak for what turned out to be a sunrise made all the more glorious and spectacular by the flat calm of the shallow water and the multiple layers and textures of the  clouds (click to triplify):

More than two years removed from it the image took some getting oriented too, since being a lifelong Californian I’m used to the sun setting into the sea, not rising from it.

It was simple: Wherever I had to stop my bike during my ride home from work last night I pulled out the cam and snapped a pic, occasionally two. Sometimes I tried to find something even moderately compelling, sometimes I just pointed and shot and moved on.

Viewable here.