Golden Gate NRA & Mt. Tamalpais SP (Part 1) - Marin County, CA

On 27 January 2024, my parents and I took a trip to Mt. Tamalpais State Park and Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Marin County, CA. I took photos of scenery, banana slugs, Stinson Beach, Bolinas Lagoon, and night time photos of San Francisco. I split the photos into 2 blog posts. I hope you enjoy viewing my photos!

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This blog post features scenery photos from Mt. Tamalpais State Park and Golden Gate National Recreation Area, along with a few photos of banana slugs.

We first drove up Mt. Tamalpais for some panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay Area.

A panorama with forest and clouds from Sequoia Valley Road shot in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Mill Valley, CA. 

In the background from left to right: Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Richmond, Tiburon, Angel Island State Park, Oakland, Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, and Yerba Buena Island.

In the foreground from left to right: Mill Valley and Marin City.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 53' 41" N 122° 33' 25" W

A black and white process of the panorama above.

A scenery photo with forest and clouds from Sequoia Valley Road shot in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Mill Valley, CA.

In the background from left to right: Richmond-San Rafael Bridge, Richmond, Tiburon, Angel Island State Park, Oakland, Bay Bridge, Treasure Island, and Yerba Buena Island.

In the foreground from left to right: Mill Valley and Marin City.

The photo was shot at the same spot as above.

A black and white process of the photo above.

A scenery photo with clouds from Sequoia Valley Road shot in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Mill Valley, CA.

In the background from left to right: Vallejo, Rodeo, Richmond, and Richmond-San Rafael Bridge.

In the foreground is Mill Valley, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 53' 41" N 122° 33' 26" W

A black and white process of the photo above.

We then stopped on the side of Panoramic Highway for a pee and food break. I spotted a few banana slugs near where we parked.

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 54' 17" N 122° 36' 33" W

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

The photo was shot near the same spot as above.

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

The photo was shot near the same spot as above.

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

The photo was shot near the same spot as above.

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 54' 17" N 122° 36' 34" W

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

The photo was shot near the same spot as above.

A photo of a banana slug shot near Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

The photo was shot near the same spot as above.

A scenery photo of forest and Panoramic Highway shot in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 54' 17" N 122° 36' 33" W

As we drove down to Stinson Beach, CA, we were met with a very nice view of the town of Stinson Beach on the side of Panoramic Highway, part of the way down on Mt. Tamalpais.

A scenery photo of Stinson Beach, Bolinas, Bolinas Lagoon (right), Pacific Ocean (left) and clouds. The photo was shot on the side of the Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 53' 37" N 122° 37' 25" W

A scenery photo of Stinson Beach, Bolinas, Bolinas Lagoon (right), Pacific Ocean (left), and clouds. The photo was shot on the side of the Panoramic Highway in Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 53' 39" N 122° 37' 27" W

We then continued north on State Route 1 and was met with a nice view of Bolinas Lagoon. We stopped near Stinson Beach School on State Route 1.

A scenery photo of Bolinas Lagoon, Stinson Beach, Bolinas, and clouds. The photo was shot near Stinson Beach School near State Route 1 in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Stinson Beach, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 53' 33" N 122° 39' 22" W

A black and white process of the photo above.

A scenery photo of Bolinas Lagoon, Stinson Beach, Bolinas, and clouds. The photo was shot near Stinson Beach School near State Route 1 in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Stinson Beach, CA.

The photo was shot at the same spot as above.

A black and white process of the photo above.

A scenery photo of Bolinas Lagoon, Stinson Beach, and clouds. The photo was shot near Stinson Beach School near State Route 1 in Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Stinson Beach, CA.

Approximate GPS location (type into Google): 37° 53' 33" N 122° 39' 21" W

A black and white process of the photo above.

This is all the photos for today. I hope you have enjoyed viewing the photos! 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 Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

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June/July Cellphone Photos

If you follow me here a lot, you probably noticed I've became pretty quiet on this blog and my social media pages. That is because I have been extremely busy this past couple months with travel, photography, videos, and most of the time, with some other things I've also been working on. I haven't had much time to write blog posts or interact on my social media pages. With that said, I finally found some time to do some blogging and posting. I hope you enjoy viewing the photos.

In this blog post, I will be showing you cellphone photos from my travels in June and July. I also have a travel vlog from June which can be viewed here.

Once I have the DSLR photos from my trips posted, I'll link the blog posts here. As you probably guessed, processing them also got pushed back from how busy I have been.

DSLR Photos:

• Fall Creek Unit
• Stanislaus/Humboldt Toiyabe NF Parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 

Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) forest.

Photo shot in Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on June 23rd, 2017.

Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) forest.

Photo shot in Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on June 23rd, 2017.

Fall Creek and Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) forest.

Photo shot in Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on June 23rd, 2017.

Fall Creek and Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) forest. The trail was completely buried probably due to the San Francisco Bay Area mega storms earlier this year. 

Photo shot in Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on June 23rd, 2017.

Taking a break from photography. 

Photo shot in Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on June 23rd, 2017.

Selfie in the forest. :D

Photo shot in Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park on June 23rd, 2017.

Went to Taste Good Bejing in Milpitas, CA to eat dinner after the Fall Creek Unit trip. Sadly they didn't have anymore of this for the day. XD Don't get me wrong, the food at the restaurant is so good. If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and love spicy Chinese food, I recommend you go try it.

What do you do when you need to recharge you smartwatch in the middle of the forest with no electricity? You generate your own. I bring a USB solar panel with me on wilderness trips in case of emergency or in cases where I don't want to drain my power banks. I was giving my friend a tour that day and he wanted to play in the snow a bit longer so I left this out to charge while we were there. 

Photo shot on the side of State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest in California on July 8th, 2017.

Also, please don't take the photo above as my support for Aukey. I only got this solar panel because it was on sale for incredibly cheap a while back on Amazon that it was hard to pass up. My past experience with Aukey customer service couldn't have been worse. They promise you something and don't follow through with it. Last time they did that to me and ignored me for a very long time until I told them about the followers I had on social media and threatened to do a review on the company. Then they tried to find some lame excuses to try to cover it up. They promised me a partial refund, which I agreed to, and then I was ignored for over a week and got no refund (I sent them a couple emails). That was until I told them I will make a review and my audience group. They tried to say something happened to their spam filter (any customer service group should be checking spam anyways as those filters are not 100% accurate) and then tried to tell me their customer service group was at some convention (they advertised on the Amazon product page 24/7 dedicated customer service). I'm not the only one having this. Seen others complaining about them ignoring support emails on the 1 star reviews too. Normally I take 1 star reviews with a grain of salt as sometimes competitors leave fake reviews, but based on my experience with the company, I have no reason to doubt these reviews are fake. Their products are good, but if you do get a lemon, don't expect them to do anything. 

People playing in the snow field. 

Photo shot on the side of State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest in California on July 8th, 2017.

People playing and taking photos in the snow field. 

Photo shot on the side of State Route 108 in Stanislaus National Forest in California on July 8th, 2017.

Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) forest.

Photo shot in Muir Woods National Monument on July 10th, 2017.

Redwood Creek and Coast Redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) forest.

Photo shot in Muir Woods National Monument on July 10th, 2017.

Flowers

Photo shot near Muir Woods National Monument on July 10th, 2017.

Before anyone think racist thoughts about Asians, that isn't my car. I took a photo because I thought it was funny. XD Hope it doesn't get towed... In their defense, parking at Muir Woods National Monuments is almost impossible to find due to the amount tourists.

Photo shot near Muir Woods National Monument on July 10th, 2017.

Another illegally parked car.

Photo shot near Muir Woods National Monument on July 10th, 2017.

After Muir Woods National Monument, I went to Stinson Beach, CA.

Photo shot in Stinson Beach, CA on July 10th, 2017.

Photo shot in Stinson Beach, CA on July 10th, 2017.

In the distance from the left to right is Bay Bridge, Treasure Island/Yerba Buena Island, Alcatraz Island, and San Francisco, CA. I was dragged into give a visiting family friend a tour of the North Bay.

Photo shot in Sausalito, CA on July 10th, 2017.

This is all the photos for today. I hope you have enjoyed the photos! 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 Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Mt. Tamalpais State Park (Aerial Photography) - Marin County, CA

On 8/10/2016, I took my DJI Phantom 3 Professional Quadcopter out to Mt. Tamalpais State Park in Marin County, CA (in the San Francisco North Bay) for a flight so I can take some aerial scenery photos. I shot aerial photos, DSLR photos, and vlog on this trip. In this blog post, I will share with you the aerial photos I took.

If you are in the San Francisco Bay Area, I highly recommend a trip to Mt. Tamalpais. The mountain is known for its wonderful above the cloud scenery. You don't even need an aircraft to get above the clouds, you can see it from the ground in certain parts of the mountain. Low cloud cover is pretty common in the San Francisco North Bay.

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Aerial photo of the cloud cover and Stinson Beach as seen from Mt. Tamalpais. You can probably see this scene with out a quadcopter (there are a few hiking trails), but I had limited amount of time and was lazy so I just flew my quadcopter instead.

 Black and white process of the photo above.

Aerial photo of Mt. Tamalpais, the forest, and cloud cover. 

Black and white process of the photo above. 

Aerial photo of of Mt. Tamalpais. On the right in the distance is the Richmond - San Rafael Bridge. 

Black and white process of the photo above.

This is all the photos for today! I hope you have enjoyed viewing the photos! If you are interest, don't forget to view my DSLR photos and vlog from this trip. 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 Instagram. These links can also be found on the top of the right sidebar.

Point Reyes, Stinson Beach, Muir Beach Overlook - California's Coast

From 7/17/2013 to 8/2/2013, I took a road trip from the SF Bay Area to Vancouver, BC, Canada. Half of the trip was spent driving up the west coast. On my trip, I visited many famous places such as Seattle, Butchart Gardens, Mount Rainier, and much more. Obviously I got many coastal shots and many places that isn't as famous. The reason I am posting it now is because the high amount of photos I took equaled a high amount of processing time. I took a bit over 2000 photos on the trip. After stitching the panoramas, compositing the HDRs, and picking out photos from the repeats, I have a bit over 1000 photos to show you guys. The photos will be split into parts. I will link you to the previous and next parts on each post just like I did with my Death Valley National Park photos and my Yellowstone/Grand Teton National Park photos. Hope you enjoy viewing this chain of posts!

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Message From The Photographer: That is right, I am getting starting on my SF Bay Area to Vancouver, BC, Canada road trip photos! I know I've been talking about it for month now, but the high amount of images really took a very long time to process. Plus I was busy setting up my portfolio and stuff which delayed things even further. However, I am done with a lot of the things I'm working on, so I will be starting this. Now with this in mind, I do have a trip scheduled for China next month. Yay! Another long chain of posts. 😂 Depending on how many photos I take, it might take as long as this one to process, so don't expect me to post the photos from that trip too soon. I will be continuing to post on this blog and interacting with followers on Google+ from China (I got my ways). Due to my busy schedule in China, I may not interact as often, but I'll probably end up doing what I did when I was on the Vancouver road trip.

The photos for today are from California's Coast. In this post, I will have photos from Point Reyes, Stinson Beach, Muir Beach Overlook and more!

The first few shots were shot at Muir Beach Overlook in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in Muir Beach, CA.  

 Here is a black and white process of the photo.

A black and white process of the above photo. 

More photos from Muir Beach Overlook.  

 Just before I left, I shot a photo of the sign so I don't forget where these photos were shot. While, I do have a GPS geotagging my shots, always great to have a back up plan. If you are a photographer, you should try this! Saves a lot of time later. 

Now moving onto Stinson Beach in Stinson Beach, CA.  

 The beach goers a Stinson Beach. 

 Changing your lens on a beach is highly not recommended, but I did it anyways. LOL Here are 2 photos of a seagull in flight. 

Driving up the coast along SR-1, here is Point Reyes Station, CA.  

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 38 03 53 N 122 48 19 W  

Still in Point Reyes Station, CA driving along SR-1, this is Golden Gate National Recreation Area.  

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 38 05 13 N 122 48 47 W  

More photos from Point Reyes Station, CA taken on the side of SR-1.   

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 38 05 28 N 122 49 29 W  

A photo from Marshall, CA taken on the side of SR-1. 

Approximate GPS location (type into Google) according to the Canon GP-E2 GPS Receiver: 38 10 21 N 122 53 54 W  

These are all the photos for today. I hope you have enjoyed viewing them. Next time I have more photos from California's Coast. 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.

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