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Frank Fremerey

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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #15 on: October 11, 2016, 16:31:09 »
bird, cat, bird
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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #16 on: October 11, 2016, 16:32:26 »
lemons, jalapeno, chillis
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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #17 on: October 11, 2016, 16:34:13 »
can someone please identify this plant? It smells like a brewery or spilled beer from the night before (bad photo, sorry)
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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #18 on: October 11, 2016, 16:45:13 »
They all look great Frank! Lovely photographically accommodations indeed! ;)

Thank you so much. Good to hear!
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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #19 on: October 11, 2016, 17:00:25 »
@Google (series, only two now, I am tired)

They serve some great food to their employees and guests... The fennel salad, the Olives, the peppers... YUMMY!!!!

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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #20 on: October 11, 2016, 19:09:00 »
can someone please identify this plant? It smells like a brewery or spilled beer from the night before (bad photo, sorry)

That's Japanese privet, Ligustrum japonicum, a common ornamental plant in lowland California.

California is an incredibly diverse place, with elevations from 96 meters below sea level to 4700 meters above sea level, average annual precipitation from 60mm to 3000mm, temperature extremes from 56 C down to -42 C, and snowfall from zero to an all-time record of 2245 cm (88 feet).  This great range of conditions result in everything from desert salt flats to temperate rain forests and mountain glaciers, all laid out over a distance of almost 1300 km which is farther than the air distance from Berlin to Rome. That means tremendous photographic opportunities, even before considering the human-made environment and the great diversity of people found here.

Frank is currently visiting the San Francisco-San Jose area, which has valleys, hills, and low mountains having a coastal Mediterranean climate (somewhat rainy winters with little frost, and dry summers).  This mild, sunny climate affects everything from ecosystems to architecture to culture. Coastal southern California (Los Angeles, San Diego) has a warmer, drier, and sunnier version of this climate.  Other parts of the state diverge greatly from these conditions - hotter, colder, wetter, drier, cloudier, etc.  There is no one typical California, but what people hear about in other parts of the world are either the mild coastal cities (Los Angeles, San Francisco) or the famous sights elsewhere (Yosemite, Death Valley, etc.).

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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #21 on: October 11, 2016, 19:10:36 »
That is a record purple fringing shot ;)

Seriously this is great to see your eye for the foreign,,,
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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #22 on: October 11, 2016, 22:17:01 »
222050.jpg  Is seriously cool Frank    .....it could be the first image of a 2016 version of "The Americans"

Have lots of fun, and keep posting images of your adventures.

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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #23 on: October 11, 2016, 23:00:20 »
great travel log Frank, thanks for sharing it
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Re: California 2016. Bay Area Meetup TODAY, Tuesday.
« Reply #24 on: October 12, 2016, 01:56:29 »
I should extend my day to 30 hours .... editing time missing

Today Golden Gate Bridge SF downtown and surroundings


Thank you for your encouragement
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Re: California 2016. SF and LA and more
« Reply #25 on: October 12, 2016, 08:03:49 »
We had a small meetup only six of us and we took a fisheye group shot when my son was watching baseball with my brother so only four in the shot. Damian is on Nikongear more or less since the beginning in 2006 or 2007 like me. Bill came with the revival.

Thank you for the explanation and the name of the plant, Bill.

Is the smell typical or did I possibly misassign the source of the smell?
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Re: California 2016. SF and LA and more
« Reply #26 on: October 12, 2016, 08:18:17 »
222050.jpg  Is seriously cool Frank    .....it could be the first image of a 2016 version of "The Americans"

Bez, I love you and you know that I hook up well with the history of arts. My wife is Arts Historian MA and I love museums and photo books.

The scene, the picture and the edit are made with the inevitable Mountain of shots, movies and paintings in mind that I saw of California before having been here.

Your compliment is very well received though possibly not earned. It is too much of a mock off.

Personally I am more proud of the AirBnB text & picture ... it transports my way of makin fun of reality in a nice way.
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Re: California 2016. SF and LA and more
« Reply #27 on: October 12, 2016, 08:19:06 »
Erik. Yes. Lots of vegetative abberation.
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« Reply #28 on: October 12, 2016, 09:18:08 »
not always sunny
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Re: California 2016. SF and LA and more
« Reply #29 on: October 12, 2016, 10:53:56 »
Beautiful Rollercoaster detail Frank.  Like the photo with the gate and the bird/building as well.