Showing posts with label chabot lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chabot lake. Show all posts

Monday, May 6, 2013

Lake Chabot Regional Park - Castro Valley, CA

Today I have some photos I took at Lake Chabot Regional Park in Castro Valley, CA. These photos will include wildlife photos, landscape photos, and some macro photos that I took in the park. The park is a great place to visit and offers very long walking trails. If you are around the area, you should pay a visit to the park sometime. :)

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. To view my best work for Lake Chabot Regional Park, use this link. To view all of my 2013 Lake Chabot Regional Park photos here.

A macro shot of some moss and fungi growing on a tree. This is a focus stacked shot. For more on focus stacking, check out my tutorial here. As with all my macro photos, I took the photo with the help of my Kenko Extension Tubes and my Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT.

 Here is a regular macro shot (non-focus stacked) of moss on a tree.

 Another photo of moss growing on a tree.

Landscape shot in the park. Here is a photo of the walking trail.  

Here is a scenery shot of the lake.  

 A photo of the dense forest in the park.

A bird in the park. Not sure what the name is though. If you know, please comment below.  

 Another scenery shot of the walking trail across the lake. I didn't take that route because it was too sunny.



A small stream of water flowing into the lake.  

Some wildlife in the lake.  

Another photo of the dense forest in the park. 

These are all the photos for today. I hope you have enjoyed viewing them. Please don't forget to share the blog post with your friends and family members! Also, if you want to get notifications when I post up more photos, "Like" us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Lake Chabot Regional Park

I took a friend to Lake Chabot Regional Park a while back. Here are some photos from the trip. I didn't end up taking too many photos as it was too windy. Lake Chabot Regional Park is located in Castro Valley, California. If you are from the area, this park is a great exercise spot with lots of long trails! I hope you enjoy viewing these photos!

I meant to do the photos from my white water rafting trip today, but I ended up uploading these. >.< Sorry, been having a lot on my mind lately with school and stuff. School has been very stressful for me, which is why I ended up uploading the wrong photos after such a big delay in my posts. Oh well, please enjoy these, and I will upload those photos next time!

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. View my best photos from Lake Chabot Regional Park here. View all of my 2012 photos from Lake Chabot Regional Park here

Sticky Monkey Flower (Mimulus aurantiacus)

I'm not very sure on what flower this is. If anyone knows, please comment below!

California Towhee (Pipilo crissalis)

Wild blackberries in the park. This is a close up photo of its flower.

This is a close up photo of the blackberry. These berries are edible once it turns black or almost black. These berries in the photo is not very ripe yet. They taste very good! :) I've ate them before. Generally, in the wilderness, you should never eat any berries you don't recognize! They may be poisonous. These berries, I do recognize, told to me by a park ranger it's safe, and tried before so I know it's safe.

I usually don't do portrait shots, but I thought the tree's shape looked really cool and shooting it in portrait was the only way to get the most out of it. 

Some landscape of the lake.

Another shot of the lake from a different part of the park. I got some lens flares in this one...

This is all the photos for today. Hopefully I don't forget again, in the next post, I will have more photos from my white water rafting trip! I hope you have enjoyed viewing these photos for today. Please don't forget to share my blog posts with your friends! If you would like to get notifications next time I post, you can "Like" me on Facebook or follow me on Twitter and Google+. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Lake Chabot Regional Park

Hello, I recently visited Lake Chabot Regional Park because our church had a hiking trip there. I took some photos during my 5 mile hike to share with you people! Hope you enjoy!

As a tip to people that maybe going there, go hiking in the morning. I arrived there kind of late and the lighting for photography (and hiking) was not very good. By the time I got back to the car, it was very dark out. You don't want to be there very late as there are lot's of wildlife that may be dangerous to people. 

Lake Chabot Regional Park is located in Castro Valley, CA. Most of the landscape shots are shot at f/22.

Full Resolution Photos and Prints: If you want to see full resolution photos or buy prints of any of the photos you see, they are up on my portfolio for viewing. To view my best work for Lake Chabot Regional Park, use this link. To view all of my 2012 Lake Chabot Regional Park photos here.

A photo from the beginning of the hike. 

Close up of the island you see in the first photo. 

A lot more into my hike... Getting tired.

Since it takes very long for me to set up my photography equipment, I actually broke off from the main group. XD Apparently I took a wrong turn and this photo is actually almost at San Leandro. I later just went back the way I came. The main group went on a small trail that split from the main one. I ended up hiking 3 miles less.

Close up of flowers on the trail. 

First time experimenting with low angle photography. :) I was too lazy to get on the ground to take the photo, so I brought some USB cords and hooked it up onto my phone so I can see the DSLR's view from above. LOL Gotta love open source Android... 

Landscape shot when it was almost dark outside.
Exposure time: 2 Seconds
ISO: 100
Aperture: f/22

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