Last night 18 people showed up for my camera club event at Mare Island Historic Shipyard in Vallejo. I think that’s the largest attendance since I’ve been doing this. It was really nice because people seemed to be excited about the location. Already over 50 pictures taken by club members have been uploaded into our meetup event online.
In these images you’ll see the street address containing “Nimitz”. The name “Nimitz” is after Commander Chester W. Nimitz of the US Navy’s Pacific Fleet during World War II. He moved to the San Francisco Bay Area after the war and served as a Regent of the University of California from 1948-1956. The name is popular around the bay area. Along with a street on Mare Island named for him, Interstate 880 (the Nimitz Freeway) is also named for him. I still call the freeway “the Nimitz” and have never quite made the switch to saying “880”.
A few posts ago I shared some history of Mare Island and you can click here if you’d like to read more about it.
June 5, 2016 at 4:23 pm
fantastic, well done
June 5, 2016 at 4:27 pm
Thank you Julie. It was fun. I used my Sony A7 too. With its new 16-35mm lens.
June 5, 2016 at 5:23 pm
oohhhhhhhhh nice, new toys!
June 5, 2016 at 5:49 pm
I love new toys!!!
June 5, 2016 at 6:52 pm
me too!
June 5, 2016 at 4:32 pm
title photo is stunning
June 5, 2016 at 4:37 pm
Thanks so much. 🙂 I think they all have the same title though.
June 5, 2016 at 4:35 pm
You’ve gone quite dark and moody lately! Really suits the images 😀
June 5, 2016 at 4:37 pm
I have! I think it’s because I went to Mare Island before I had my event yesterday and was sort of in that mood up until the event. Thank you Sarah. 🙂
June 5, 2016 at 5:11 pm
I love the way different subjects influence our entire thought processes over the creation of an image 🙂
June 5, 2016 at 5:48 pm
Me too Sarah!
June 6, 2016 at 4:27 pm
😀
June 5, 2016 at 5:23 pm
Wonderful!
June 5, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Thank you Tosha!
June 5, 2016 at 6:11 pm
You’re welcome
June 5, 2016 at 5:34 pm
Nicely done, the brick one is my favorite because of the darkness.
June 5, 2016 at 5:49 pm
Thanks so much. I like it best as well and is why I put it first. 🙂
June 5, 2016 at 7:39 pm
I really like the lighting and clarity of these images. 1085 Nimitz is my favorite. How do you like the electronic view finder on the A7?
June 5, 2016 at 7:56 pm
Thank you David. I’m happy you liked the images and that you picked a fave. :). I’m loving the Sony and its electronic gizmos. The viewfinder is just amazing! I purchased a 16-35 lens which is what I used on this outing. Phenomenal. Honestly I can’t see carrying around my D750. I’m wondering if I should sell it. But it is nice to have a backup camera.
June 6, 2016 at 4:52 am
Beautiful and excellent series of an inspiring location. If you ever set a a virtual camera club I will be number “19”. Smiles. Reinhold
June 6, 2016 at 6:58 am
Thank you! Now that would be quite something….a virtual camera club outing. Maybe you can be a hologram. 🙂
June 6, 2016 at 7:50 am
Actually I think that would be fun. A camera club with selected members round the globe. One composition challenge per quarter. Each member has to deliver 3 images in a predefined category. QTR 1: Architecture, QTR 2: Landscape, QTR 3: Nature, QTR 4: Story… specific to his/her location. The first quarter starts at July 1, 2016. Important: **** Quality: as high as possible. Prep time: as much as possible. **** Presentation of images: first weekend before quarter-end. Starting number of members = 10. It has to be a club . No permanent host. Link to the other members posts in the footer of each presentation. A member has the right to nominate a new member for the club after 12 months. So on July 1, 2017 we will be twenty. The year after 40….
We will create a logo to brand the blogs of the members. Comments of members should be constructive and point sharp to +/- of each images to help improve each others photography skills. May be we could meet once a year in a video conference to discuss results and new ideas. I vote for you as president and I would love to do some of the organisation / administration / technical work. Now is this totally crazy? Feel free to tell me. It was just an idea which came to my mind reading your comment. I couldn’t do it because I am only “another WordPress blog”. 🙂
June 6, 2016 at 9:54 am
Wow you really gave this some thought! However, I’ll pass on being president lol. I’d love to participate though! I formally hand the baton to you lol. 🙂
June 8, 2016 at 4:07 am
I think we leave it as “an idea” for now. May be in a year or two I am “grown up” and will come back to this idea. Smiles. Reinhold
June 8, 2016 at 11:23 am
Sounds like a plan. 🙂
June 6, 2016 at 2:17 pm
Beautifully lit!
June 6, 2016 at 6:11 pm
Thank you and thank you to photoshop lol!
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June 6, 2016 at 6:12 pm
Thank you Bo!
June 7, 2016 at 6:16 am
Well done very grabbinh
June 7, 2016 at 8:14 am
Thank you.
June 7, 2016 at 6:16 am
Grabbing*
June 7, 2016 at 8:14 am
ahhh lol thank you 🙂
June 22, 2016 at 5:08 am
Great shot
June 22, 2016 at 2:34 pm
Thank you Luis!