{"id":10593,"date":"2025-12-27T23:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10593"},"modified":"2025-12-27T23:32:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T06:32:14","slug":"bodega-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/27\/bodega-bay\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodega Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For lunch on our first day of the Sonoma County Autumn Photo Workshop, we stopped at Bodega Bay Harbor. After a delicious lunch, we headed down to the marina. I found this single stalk of a Pride of Madeira plant, along the quay.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pride Of Madeira, Bodega Bay Harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

This stalk was the only one that still had color. All the remaining stalks had withered and dried earlier in the season. I made a monochrome image of some of the remaining withered stalks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Pride Of Madeira Dried Flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I found that this harbor had a lot of material that would make for some interesting photographs. There was a stack of fishing baskets with coiled ropes and floats close to quay side.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Fishing Baskets And Ropes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Farther along the quay was a boat that had been loaded onto a trailer in the parking lot. I made an abstract image of the patterns of rust on the bright blue keel.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Rust Patterns On Keel, Bodega Bay.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

There were some birds that were flying from tree to tree along the parking lot, so I attempted to capture some images of the birds. They were obscured behind the mosses that were growing on the trees. So I turned my attention to the mosses — at least they didn’t move!<\/p>\n\n\n

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Moss On Trees, Bodega Bay Harbor.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Later that afternoon we made our way to the Bodega Bay Head. There were several colonies of Cormorants along the coast. On one of rocks along the cliff, a group of Cormorants were drying off and preening themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cormorants On Rock, Bodega Bay Head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Farther inland from the cliffs was a group of Cypress trees. A footpath led to a tunnel formed by the surrounding trees. I made several compositions of some of the trunks and branches of these trees in the tunnel. In the following image, I converted the capture into a monochrome rendition.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Cypress Trees, Bodega Bay Head.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Later we headed back to the workshop headquarters to complete the day’s events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For lunch on our first day of the Sonoma County Autumn Photo Workshop, we stopped at Bodega Bay Harbor. After a delicious lunch, we headed down to the marina. I found this single stalk of a Pride of Madeira plant, along the quay. This stalk was the only one that still had color. All the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[436,2061,2022,1789,2064,588,2062,2063,2060,834,55,595,444,2065,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-10593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-abstract","8":"tag-bodega-bay","9":"tag-cormorants","10":"tag-cypress","11":"tag-fishing-baskets","12":"tag-harbor","13":"tag-headland","14":"tag-keel","15":"tag-madeira","16":"tag-marina","17":"tag-monochrome","18":"tag-moss","19":"tag-plants","20":"tag-rope","21":"tag-trees"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2KR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10593"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10597,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10593\/revisions\/10597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}