The end of a wonderful year

I can't believe that this year is ending already...wow..time flys..especially when you are having fun..

Last January we took a trip to Yuma and San Diego...April we went to Yosemite..

The end of May we went to the Gold Country.

In August and September we took a great trip to Canada.....

Here are some fall color photographs that I took in the middle of this month.

This last photograph is of leaves in the water...

Happy New Year Everybody...

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody

October and November are my favorite months for fall colors..Last week we took a ride to Morgan Hill and took
some more photographs of vineyards. The first photograph is the original and they second has been artistically rendered in Adobe Photoshop or Corel Painter:

This month is car month at the Morgan Hill Camera Club so I worked on a couple of car photographs.. the first on is before and the second is after post processing in Photoshop and Painter:

On our last trip we stayed at the Elks Club in Spokane, Wa... We went to a dinner-dance..We sat with some interesting people and I had a wonderful conversation with an 87yr old lady...I took a snap shot of her and decided to make a painting of it.. I am going to print it and mail it to the Elks club for her.. The first photo is the original and the second is a painting I made in Corel Painter..Enjoy

Last but not least is a photo that I took of Yvonne's grandchildren playing at the ocean:

Happy Thanksgiving

Fall Colors

Fall Colors....I love Fall Colors... it is my favorite time of the year...I was taking a walk the other day and couldn't resist taking photographs of fall colors...The same kind I took last year..HaHa.

This month, the villages camera club, has old houses as the subject. For the last month we have been going to various areas to take photographs of Old Houses..

The first houses I want to show you were taken in Santa Clara:

The first one is called the Dr Paul Mansion and is really a neat example of Old Houses:
(click to enlarge) ( one is in color and the other is an old fashioned look)

The next home is the Dr Henry Zanger home...His children started and owned the Casa DeFruta outside of Hollister,Ca...

The next home is in downtown San Jose, Ca...I just happened to see it...I made a black and white old fashioned photo of it but kept the chair blue:

Now we are heading to hollister to take some photos of some old houses that were in the neighborhood where I grew up.

The first house is the one I grew up in from age 8 until I got married..It is now a bed and breakfast on the corner of west and 7th street...

The next home is one block away from where I grew up and is what I call the "Sparling House."

Last but not least is what I call the "Mays" house.. It was owned by a friend of my Father..Lou Mays..

Rolex boat races at St Frances Yaught Harbor

Well we are back home in San Jose, California.. The Morgan Hill Camera Club had a shoot out at the Rolex Boat Races in San Francisco... We went up on the 26th and 27th of September..Here are some photos from the races:

I was really fun taking photographs of the colorful sailboats.

Sutherlin, Oregon and Lake Siskiyou...On the way Home

We stayed in Sutherlin, Oregon..took a ride looking for covered bridges and found this one:

The next day we went for a ride outside of roseburg, oregon.. up the umpquah river..very pretty ride:

Then we drove to Lake Siskiyou..by the town of Lake Shasta..Here are a few photographs I took in the area:

It was a nice place to spend a couple of days.

Back in the USA and at the Columbia Gorge

Nice to be back in the United States...I really enjoyed our time in Canada... The Canadian people are very friendly.. Here are some photographs of the Columbia Gorge points of interest:(click to enlarge)

Very pretty area and the Oregan campgrounds are beautiful and inexpensive..($24) a night with full hookups..

Lake Louise Area in Alberta, Canada

On September 4th we arrived in Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada..This is a photo of our Campground:

Here are some photographs of Lake Louise and Bow Lake:

Here is a photo of Yvonne Takings photos at Bow Lake:

We took a ride up to Moraine Lake and took a few photographs:

The next day we took a walk up to the Peyto lake viewpoint:

Very pretty and photogenic area