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Berkeley’s Devil Z

2013-Aug-12 adohertyh6 Comments

Legendary tuned cars abound in manga and anime—the overpowered monsters in unassuming guise who reveal their true (horse)power in the last seven minutes of each episode. In at least two that jump to mind (Wangan Midnight and Shakotan Boogie), Datsun Z cars are the chief culprits.

This particular Z has been hanging out in Berkeley’s South Campus neighborhood as long as anyone can remember, delivering supplies to I.B.’s Hoagies. Each year, it’s modified a little further towards some ultimate form that exists in the mind of its owner. In the mean time, I love the idea of this rough style monster out on delivery service.

Snow Porch

2013-Aug-07 adohertyh3 Comments

During the blazing August heat, looking back to winter pictures leads to the oddest “time machine effect.” As you can see from the rapidly filling tire tracks in the driveway, we barely made it home ahead of what turned out to be a fierce storm. The comfort of “I don’t have to go out there” is so amplified when standing on a perfect porch, next to the door to a cozy house, and seeing the frozen, dark contrast in the graveyard across the way.

Redwoods

2012-Dec-18 emceehammr1 Comment

Here’s a shot I captured during an excursion to Portola Redwoods state park in northern California. I didn’t have my DSLR with me and so I was stuck with my iPhone but I figured that I would see what I could do with an iPhone shot with my usual suite of photo tools.

Curving Sky Matches Earth

2012-Jan-212016-Jul-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

The clouds finally cooperated while I was driving past a beach outside San Diego. I was chuffed at the degree to which the clouds matched the curvature of the hillside. The blue sky also makes a pretty stark contrast with the dull browns of winter-time southern California.

Crusty Ice

2012-Jan-192016-Jul-15 adohertyh1 Comment

On the same day that I took this photograph, I found this awesome, half-frozen pond in the back of the forrest preserve. Though the sun was setting and the clouds were already picking up an orange-pink color, from this angle only the bluest parts of the sky were reflected. It had been above freezing for a couple of days, and the ice had melted to the point that it comprised two or three different textures. The brightness of those colors and the variations in the pond’s surface made for a nice contrast with the dormant and dead plants surrounding it.

The Glowing Greenhouse

2012-Jan-172016-Jul-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

UC Berkeley has an enormous number of greenhouses just to the west of their main campus. The glow from inside them at night fit nicely with the streetlights reflecting off the low cloud cover on this particular night.

Trellis Shelter

2012-Jan-072016-Jul-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

These little alcoves on Berkeley’s campus are apparently great places to study. At night, in particular, their lighting makes for some fairly spectacular effects. This is the same area where Brendan found that great shot of the chessboard yesterday, and I thought it might be nice to show a broader view, too.

Rear Window

2012-Jan-052016-Jul-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

Different types of lighting (e.g. incandescent, fluorescent, sodium vapor, mercury vapor…) produce light of different colors. Though that’s pretty common knowledge, mixing lighting types in one picture can have striking effects and add color to scenes that might be drab in daylight. I say, “scene,” because this picture strikes me as a bit cinematographic–or perhaps even like the set of a play. I can just imagine Sharks and Jets preparing to rumble around the corner…

Saturnalia Special

2011-Dec-252016-Jul-15 adohertyh1 Comment

Though Sunday isn’t normally a posting day, I grabbed this HDR shot of the Christmas Tree last night and really wanted to share it. Happy Holidays to us all!

Pacifica Pier

2011-Dec-242016-Jul-15 adohertyhLeave a comment

On a chilly Christmas Eve, it can be nice to think back to warmer times. I thought I would continue from Brendan’s shot over Puget Sound and post a shot from the beach. A few months ago, I was lucky enough to go crabbing with some friends in Pacifica, CA. The pier was absolutely packed with fishermen and all of the contraptions used to get crabs. I was most struck, however, by the hexagonal cross section of the pier itself, and the great rust colors next to the water.

Sunset Over San Francisco, Round I

2011-Dec-222016-Jul-15 adohertyh1 Comment

Grizzly Peak, in the hills above Berkeley, is a great spot to get photos of San Francisco–if the weather cooperates. Though it was a bit foggy on this particular day, it afforded a great chance to see some interesting shadows. San Francisco itself is just visible beneath the sun.

This is also a great instance of just how useful HDR can be, as a technique; sunset images without tone mapping typically require the foreground to be completely silhouetted.

Mummifying Campbell Hall

2011-Dec-202016-Nov-07 adohertyh3 Comments

Welcome to Decaseconds, a photography blog where Brendan and I display our latest photographs. Though we’ll be posting all kinds of images here, we have a mutual interest in long-exposure and HDR (high dynamic range) landscape photography. That will be our focus.

UC Berkeley’s Campbell Hall is currently undergoing demolition that has resulted in the mummification of the building; the glow from within made a fantastic counterpoint to the light reflected from the overcast sky.