We walking along Jericho Beach around suppertime of a recent weekend whenthe clouds and light performed a summer-afternoon dance for us. I wasshooting in every direction and present for your entertainment one marinevessel and two feathered scavengers; nothing you can?t see there every day.

This is the Hector; I?m sure you could look it upsomewhere online and find out where it goes and what it carries.

We have eagles around here, and cormorants and loons and great blue heronstoo, and every kind of duck you can imagine, and they all have their ownbeauty, and we ignore the gulls mostly, because they?re not big and not rareand not fierce and not colorful. But really, they don?t look bad when theyget some help from the sun and clouds.

Photo-weenie note: More samples of the mighty Pentax 50-135at work. Someday the engineers will build this kind of flexibility and focusand clarity into something you can fit into your pocket; but for now, thereare times when there?s no substitute for lugging a kilo of metal and glassaround the beach.




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