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California Road Trip 2019

In the summer of 2019 I took my daughter on another road trip from San Francisco to Carlsbad.

Day 6, last day

Just like yesterday morning, I heard the fog horn again while still in my bed, and thought "bummer". But! I opened the door to peek out and saw this:

Not a bad view at all! I don't think I have ever seen the fog at the top half of Morro Rock, it's always been the bottom half. So I rushed to get my camera gear out and I ran to the roof of the hotel. Scenes like this can change in an instant.

I set up my tripod and I took several vertical shots again with my 100-400mm lens, so later I could stitch them together into a high-resolution panorama. Fortunately it all worked out. Here is the final result in black and white:

I like creating these large panos because it allows me to print them very big while retaining all the small details.

A couple of weeks later I printed it at 5 feet and colored it with my Marshall Photo Oils:

After I was done with the photo shoot (the fog was already gone after 20 minutes), Kate and I left. We drove down the coast to have breakfast at the Fat Cats Cafe in San Luis Obispo (I thought Kate would find that amusing and so she did).

Now we just wanted to get home. It was not a too awfully long drive (except where the 101 joins the I-405.... Kate slept through this though). 

It was another great trip. Will we go somewhere again this year? An Arizona trip maybe? Hawaii? I don't know yet, but I'm sure I will write about it again.

To read my daughter's account of our time in Morro Bay, click here.