{"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":["post-10593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-general","tag-abstract","tag-bodega-bay","tag-cormorants","tag-cypress","tag-fishing-baskets","tag-harbor","tag-headland","tag-keel","tag-madeira","tag-marina","tag-monochrome","tag-moss","tag-plants","tag-rope","tag-trees"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t