Sausalito, California

I took a stroll through Sausalito last weekend with the OM-D my old kit 14-45mm zoom for a change. The harbor has millions of dollars of boats just sitting there unused. Where are the owners of these boats and why do they sit there unused week after week? Hardly seems worth it. Anyway, here is one shot of the harbor.

Then I came upon some sort of custom car show in the parking lot. Not quite the scale of the Bad Ass Car Show Sonoma last month, but it had some interesting vehicles / works of art to look at. As usual, the difficulty in photographing these well is in isolating the cars from the busy backgrounds. And in avoiding getting your own reflection in the highly polished paint and chrome. Here are a couple I was happy with.

 

Chemung and Masonic abandoned California gold mines

I visited Masonic and Chemung mines - two old abandoned gold rush era mines in Mono County, east California. It was an 1½ hour drive up a 15 mile dirt road to get there, with just latitude and longitude coordinates for my GPS to follow. And when I got there I found this old upturned car and a large propane gas cylinder both full of bullet holes (hundreds of them) – someone had been using them for target practice, with numerous empty shell casings everywhere. Not a great photo artistically, but it shows the number of bullet holes:

I wandered in cautiously, hoping I wouldn’t alarm the hillbilly who might be living there with a machine gun for protection. Luckily, no one there.

Here is another car at the same location. Not quite so many bullet holes:

See the full gallery of the Chemumg and Masonic abandoned gold mines.