Good morning from Sonoma, California
Still pretty early in the morning, but we have a very busy day today
We are going to go to the Golden Gate Bridge for sunrise, and then we are going to go to Muir Woods
a forest of redwoods that is very close to the Golden Gate Bridge
So it's gonna be a very long day, but it's gonna be awesome and beautiful. Hopefully I can make some good images today
Let's get started
So sunrise was beautiful
but I guess a combination of lack of sleep and lack of having breakfast and
It was freezing. So I was feeling very sick
So I decided to leave and I just came to this little mall in Sausalito
To grab some coffee and hopefully warm up. So it's 6:20 in the morning
My next stop as I said, it's Muir Woods
And the thing with that place is that you have to reserve a parking spot, which is crazy
I've never heard of that in a National Park / National Monument
so I have a parking spot for 8:00 in the morning
That's when they open so I still have 1 hour and 40 minutes until that happens
Okay, welcome to Muir Woods, as you can see this place is beautiful
these are the tallest trees on Earth and it's pretty cool to be here and you feel
very, very small and just being in a forest like this is just an amazing feeling
But it is very challenging for photography here, for black and white photography because it's a very busy place
So it is really hard to find contrast and since it's a forest full of really tall trees
I was ready to shoot wide and that's why I have with me the
Rokinon, the 12mm lens in my pocket ready to go at any time and I haven't used it even once
I haven't seen any
Images or any compositions that I could make with that lens
What I did instead is, I just put my a6000 away in my bag and I've been shooting with the small
RX100, and the reason for that is because it's able to focus really close the minimum focal distance
Or focus distance is very, very small. So I've been just shooting the small things of the forest
It might sound weird because we are here surrounded by these
amazing tall trees and I've been photographing the small things of the forest
But I've been having a lot of fun since I grabbed this camera
Yeah, you never know how things are going to go and I can't find any composition, I don't feel inspired
here to capture these amazing trees, at least the whole thing
But instead I'm feeling very inspired capturing the small things and the little details of the trees and the forest
So yeah
There you go, all right, so I'm almost back to the car just wanted to wrap this up
So the Muir Woods were beautiful
it was better than I expected because I was expecting a lot of people but coming here early helped a lot
what helped the most though was going on this little hike, it was less than 2 miles
I think it was the Fern Creek Trail, I believe, and there's no one here
The main trail was getting crowded, a little bit now, but here
there's is absolutely no one. The redwoods are a little bit smaller, but it's not a big deal
It's beautiful here and you get the silence and that peace that the forest should have and yeah
I don't think I've made a lot of images this morning. Probably just one from the Golden Gate
Probably just a couple that I really like from here. I have some hopes for ones that I made
Of the sunlight going through the forest and the trees, we'll see. But yeah, this little camera helped a lot.
I don't know why but since I grabbed it, I felt much more inspired and I started making images
I'm pretty sure that most of them are not gonna be any good
But still, it felt good to be taking photos. Sometimes, the simpler the better, at the beginning
I found myself changing the lenses on the a6000 way too often
and since I started shooting with this one well
I was focusing on what matters that is making the images and yeah
This is gonna be pretty much it for today. The light is pretty harsh
it's a very sunny and clear day, it's gonna be very hot today where we are staying in Sonoma
It's gonna get to more than 90 degrees. So I'm just gonna go back home
I'm gonna take a nap and then go for a drink. That sounds like a plan
Thank you so much for watching and see you in the next one