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While have my morning coffee, I thought to myself.  ”I need to get out of this city for the weekend.”

Yeah I’m headed to Bishop next weekend, but I wanted out.  Now.  A quick check online showed there was an Avis close by.  I walked over there, and drove out with Ford’s econobox, the Focus.  Ugly maroon, but it would get me where I wanted to go.

The next question was – north or south on US-1?  I decided to go north, since I’d gone south a few times with friends already.

First stop was required to make my own shot of the Golden Gate Bridge from the Marin headlands.  This shot is made millions of times everyday by tourists who flock to the vista points.  But even in spite of this massive redundancy, it just begs for a shot anyway.

Another common shot, the San Francisco skyline from the Marin headlands.

After about an hour of driving, I found myself heading into Point Reyes.  Its an finger of land that sticks out in the ocean that sports treacherous rocks and currents that lured in and sunk many many ships in the early 1900s.

Completely by accident, this crow flew into my frame when I pulled the shutter.  Not bad!

I had barely gone 60 miles north on US-1 when night fell.  I checked in an hotel and here I am, posting a couple pictures I took.  I don’t quite know where I’m going tomorrow, but this trip ain’t over yet!

Well that didnt take long for me to fall off the wagon.  I was posting along pretty nicely then bam.. nothing!  I got caught up into some personal drama over the last couple weeks and then had a few friends visiting over President’s weekend and so on on on.

But now I do know that people do read this blog cuz I’ve gotten a few nudges here and there… thank you!

There was this massive pillow fight downtown SF on Valentine’s Day.  I recorded a bunch of video, but I wanna edit them up a bit befoer I post em up.

So yeah.. hopefully I’m back (for how long) – yeahhhhhh.

With only thirty minutes to spare before a friend dropped by for a visit, I walked around my neighborhood and took a few long-exposure shots in the late night.

The 5D Mark II definitely is an superior camera to the original 5D.  But does it feel as groundbreaking as the original 5D felt to me when I upgraded?  Not really.  The original 5D was a sort of an epiphany of what a DSLR was capable of doing.  The Mark II just keeps that and gives you a few million more pixels and a wider ISO range to play with.

I suppose that’s a good thing, but in a way, I’d kinda hoped the Mark II would blow me away.  (Considering the cash I dropped on that thing).  Since it didn’t, I’ll just have to work harder and come up with some photos that blow me away.