Friday, September 21, 2007 – Storm Coming

There had been no rain in Los Angeles in the past 153 days, but on Friday, September 21, a storm moving down the coast teased everyone, out over the Pacific.  It just sat out to sea. This was the scene at Ocean Park, the beach south of the Santa Monica pier.

A gull running before the storm –

Pelicans run before the storm, or get in a little aerial fishing –

A Willet, Western version, checks out the minor storm tide –

Gulls hunker down on the sand –

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

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