The primary site for Google is situated in Mountain-View, California — Silicon Valley. It’s been overcast and rainy since I’ve arrived, but that’s okay since, believe it or not, that’s about the best possible weather for photography. Without huge, overhead, translucent diffusers (aka “clouds”) to ensure that everything has light, you’d get some very dark shadows.
After getting settled in by finding breakfast, groceries, and my bearings, I headed off down to Santa Cruz and from there up along Highway #1 that follows the coastline. There were a number of people at the beach I visited, so it seems at least the blood of some people down here isn’t too thin. Nobody was swimming, though. After a week at -20°C, this was t-shirt weather for me.
The apartment I’m staying in is quite nice, with three bedrooms. So far, I have only one roommate, a guy from the Japan office. There was someone in the other room when I arrived, but he was gone when I got up the next morning.
Oh I should have read this one first, great shot!!! Anyway I need some travel tips on California. We are heading to San Francisco on Mar. 9 for a couple days and then off to LA. Let me know if you know of any cheaper but good hotels along the coast, also some good photo locations.
Cheers,
Derrick
Take Hwy#1 down the coast. You’ll pass the lighthouse above and some other interesting property. It’ll take you to Santa Cruz where there are some more beaches (and another lighthouse).
I’m probably going to the Sequoia national park this weekend where the biggest Redwood trees are. About the same distance, but a little more to the North is Yosemite, too.
There’s no shortage of beautiful terrain around here — better than LA, me thinks.
Hi
We got home today. Nice to hear how you are doing. Interesting isn’t it how the past doesn’t really seem like the “good old days” when you have to re-live it.