Jamaica to USA

Jamaica and USA, 22 September 2016

This is from a flight from Montego Bay, Jamaica to Charleston, South Carolina. A later flight to Los Angeles was at night and I didn’t take any photographs on that one.

Houses at the water’s edge near the airport in Montego Bay.

A couple of hours above the Florida coast. West Palm Beach maybe.

All the cloud shots are not far apart.

Approaching Charleston.

America – the land of individuality?

Charleston in the distance.

When we got to Charleston, we had to wait for maybe hours in a long security queue while the time to catch the next flight faded away. A German couple near us tried to jump the queue to where some friends of theirs were, but they were seen by officials and sent to the very last place in the line.

When I got to LA and picked up a rental car near the airport, I had to return to get the rental company to show me how to get the drivers seat back up. I had found a control to recline it but had gone too far and that control didn’t put it back up(!). There was a different control in a different location for that.

Then when I got onto the crowded freeway (at night) I found that the side mirrors were electronic and I couldn’t tell how far away other cars were. That made changing lanes quite freaky. Still, we got where we needed to go without incident.

I also spent a fair amount of time this week dealing with corrupted images and backups. When I came to start considering my California images for processing, I found I had 300 corrupted and unusable images. My backup to the Cloud is supposed to go back to 2017 when I started Cloud backup but the relevant backup only went back to May which must be when I had a motherboard change. My local backup to a Drobo was no good because only have enough space to retain recent backups. But I do have an old backup to disk from 2017. At first that seemed inaccessible but I eventually retrieved the files I needed from it. This just goes to show the value of the old adage that you should always have three separate backups.

Oregon Coast.

Feb17

Oregon, 5th to 8th November 2018.
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Columbia River Valley, then Oregon Coast.

La Tourell Falls.

View from Vista House.

Multnomah Falls.

Foliage on cliff, Multnomah Falls.

Rainforest, Multnomah Falls.

Base of Multnomah falls.

Near Multnomah Falls.

Wreck of the Peter Iredale.

Looking north, from the Wreck of the Peter Iredale.

Ecola State Park.

Unexpected wave, Hug Point.

Views from Neahkahnie Viewpoint.

Rainforest near Castle Rock.

Coast view south of Nestucca Bay.

Yaquina Head Lighthouse.

Heceta Head Lighthouse (and next two images).

Views from Kronenberg County Park, Bandon .

Bandon South Jetty.

Somewhere north of Crescent City.

Redwoods, perhaps Del Norte Coast Redwoods State Park.

Willits street scene, Paradise burning 100km away.

Golden Gate with Paradise smoke haze.

That was the last of the temporary posts from trip to Uzbekistan, Istanbul, Athens, Thira, Crete, Andalusia. Barcelona, Washington and Oregon. Next I have three miscellaneous posts, then I will continue with final posts for Cuba and the Caribbean, starting with Cuba. After that, unhbless something else intervenes, I shall make final posts for the Uzbekistan trip.

La Push to Portland.

Feb10

Washington State, USA, 3rd November 2018.
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La Push in early morning (and next seven images).

Probably a Western Gull.

Lake Crescent.

Mount Walker viewpoint (near Qilcene) (and next nine images).

Seattle.

A photographer at the roadside, possibly Greg Scott.

This is what he stopped to photograph. Dosewallips River.

Fishing boat on Hood Canal.

Autumn colours on Hood Canal.

Second Beach.

Feb3

Second Beach, Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, 2nd November 2018.
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La Push and Second Beach on a rather damp day.

La Push.

A gull on my balcony. Probably a ringed-bill gull or a glaucus-winged gull.

Second Beach (and subsequent images).

I encountered local photographer Jim Wood and his grandson and his friend.

Jim Wood’s grandson descending from the rock.

At the high tide mark there were large numbers of driftwood logs.

… and also some interesting seaweed.

Hoh Rain Forest.

Jan27

Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, 31st October to 1st November 2018.
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Storm at dawn, La Push.

Near Rialto Beach.

Rialto Beach.

La Push.

On the road to Hoh Rain Forest.

Hoh Rain Forest (and following images).

Washington Day 1.

Jan18

Olympic National Park, Washington State, USA, 31st October to 1st November 2018.
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Most of this post is a journey around Lake Quinault in Olympic National Park, Washington State, going for a few walks and visiting a few waterfalls.

Now we’re on the road north. This is Ruby Beach.

This last image is on the road in to Hoh Rain Forest, which as it happened was closed that day.

Uzbekistan, Crete, Spain and Oregon Itinerary

Sep23

26 September to 11 November 2018.
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My partner Jools and I are about to embark on a trip to Uzbekistan, Greece, Spain and north-west USA. In due course I will post for each part of the journey under the maps below. I may produce some temporary posts as I go but only if I have sufficient time. Final posts will appear later (and I still have to finish final posts for Cuba and the Caribbean).

Links for summary posts and then final posts will appear under the maps in due course.

Uzbekistan

(Tashkent/ (Urgench)/ Khiva/ Bukhara/ Shakrisabz/ Samarkand/ Tashkent)

A country with a long history and the centre of Timur’s (Tamurlane’s) empire in the 14th century.

Tashkent
- Tashkent
- Tashkent to Urgench
Khiva
Bukhara
Shakhrisabz
- Kesh, Sogdia, Timur and a Sufi
- Ak Seray Palace
Samarkand
Tashkent
- Samarkand to Tashkent
- State Museum of Arts,Tashkent
Monochromes
- Tashkent
- Khiva 1
- Khiva 2
- Bukhara 1
- Bukhara 2
- Shakhrisabz
- Samarkand 1
- Samarkand 2

Aegean Sea.

(Istanbul/ Athens/ Thira/ Crete)

Istanbul: Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Basilica Cistern

Athens: Acropolis, National Archæological Museum

Thira: Oia, Akrotiri, Ancient Thira

Crete

(Heraklion/ Knossos/ Zakros/ Matalia/ Phaestos and Gortys/ Sougia/ Chania/ (Heraklion))

Home of the Minoan Civilisation and many layers of subsequent History.

Crete

Spain

((Granada)/ Cordoba/ Malaga/ Almeira/ Cabo del Gata/ Granada)

Incudes Mezquita and Alhambra.

Temporary Posts:

Also Barcelona, not shown on map of Andalusia above.

Sagrada Familiar, Gaudi Houses.

Temporary Posts:

Olympic National Park, Washington.

((Portland)/ Quinault Rain Forest/ Hoh Rain Forest/ La Push/ (Portland)).

Rainforest, coastal seascapes, maybe wildlife.

Temporary Posts:

Oregon Coast.

((Portland)/ Cannon Beach/ Bandon/ Trinidad/ (San Francisco)).

A wild coastline where development has been banned since the 1960s.

Temporary Post:

Oregon Coast

Salton Sea and Joshua Tree NP.

Nov2

Salton Sea and Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA, 1 October 2016

Temporary post. Images only. Not even image descriptions.

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This has been my last temporary post on the trip to Mexico, Guatemala, California, Cuba and the Caribbean.

I will return to make final posts in some months. Before that I will make the final posts for the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Island and the Atacama Desert. Currently, though, I am only posting once each week because I am otherwise occupied. Last weekend I went down to Sydney as official photographer at the Sydney Blues Festival and I now have 3,700 images to process from that. The weekend after next, I am leading a Canberra Photographic Society photographic excursion to Point Hicks in Victoria, to one of the lighthouses I photographed in 1987 and to the surrounding coastline. I will also make a few posts in the near future from those and from a visit to the Sculpture Garden at the Australian National Gallery in Canberra.