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| Horse crossing sign near my current company. |
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| No kidding. |
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| It's a pretty red hair. |
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| They all look so interesting. |
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| Is that a cow or a horse? |
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| Another look around dusk. |
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| I was reminded the "One Hundred Horses" by the famous Ching Dynasty painter Lang Shining. |
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Ten meters away from my current company is the headquarter of famous Tesla Motor. Today I ventured into their campus and did a quick walk about.
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| The parking can look like a Tesla Showroom. |
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| Model S and earlier Tesla models. |
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| 3500 Dear Creek Road. |
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| A very nice picnic area inside the campus. Lovely trees. |
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| I had an urge to jump on the rope, but decided against it. |
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| The community garden doesn't seem to be popular, but I like the idea. |
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| All the years of using expensive camera equipments were to teach me me how to catch a moment with my cell phone. |
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Our local coffee house has quite a collection of the "yellow" ducks. Well, they are not your usual yellow ducks. So far this "Rocky Horror Picture Show" duck is my favorite. |
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| Though I have been to Santa Cruz many times, I had never heard of Santa Cruz Harbor till today. |
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| It's written on water. |
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| A fancy looking yacht in the back. |
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An Edward Hopper Seascape
Hopper is a master of light. I have yet seen any painter who can capture the light of the seaside so truly. (Winslow Homer comes close, especially his watercolor work, but his paintings lack the mystical element I often find in a Hopper painting.) More than the Impressionists, Hopper teaches me so much about how to "see" the light. |
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| Finished in 2001, Walton Lighthouse is the only 21st century lighthouse I know. |
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| The lighthouse is on a jetty outside the Santa Cruz Harbor. |
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| Love the composition but the digital stitching is terrible. One day I will have to reshoot this. |
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| Two men fishing on the jetty. I wondered what kind of fish they tried to catch. |
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| A very Edward Hopper moment. |
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| An Edward Hopper landscape, looks almost like a photo taken from the Pigeon Point. |
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| Walton Lighthouse |
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| This was where I first noticed the fire. The old lady walking in front of me asked her companion: you didn't leave anything on the stove, do you? Without hesitation, I took out my X100 and started shooting. |
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The smoke shadowed the Sun. It looked almost alive. I started to hear explosions. Someone next to me said it was from the gas tanks in the garage.
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| Firefighters arrived one minute later, connected the fire hose, and started to direct through traffic. |
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I switched to my cell phone camera to zoom in. People started to venture closer. I soon joined them. Surprisingly, nobody stopped me.
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| Around the corner, the smoke looked really scary. Switched back to X100 to get a wide angle shot. |
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| Passengers stopped to take a look. Many took out their cell phones to take photos. |
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| The smoke soon changed color so I knew the fire was put out. Time to go home. |
