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Lands' End - Ocean Beach: dead whale washed ashore

I returned Sunday evening from a shoot to a ripe smell breezing off Ocean Beach, which reminded me of my seafaring assignments on fishing and lobster boats during my newspaper days. Early Monday morning we grabbed our bikes and headed toward the beach to discover the carcass of a mid-adult whale. Later I returned to continue photographing the discovery. Marine biologists are uncertain of the exact species until further testing, however they speculate that it could be an endangered fin or sei whale found deep in the Pacific Ocean. Its been reported that fin whales have been spotted recently around the Farrallon Islands, 30-miles off the coast of San Francisco. For further reading, click here. Click through the slideshow below and read the cutlines.

Destination: Silicon Valley for the New York Times

36-Hours Silicon Valley ran in the New York Times travel section recently. There's more to the peninsula then I ever thought, which includes jaunts to wineries in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains to the history of computers at the Computer History Museum. Click on 36-Hours Silicon Valley for story and pictures. Below is my outtake from the assignment.

Lands' End - urban wilderness of the outer sunset

Since our move back to SF, I'll be taking on a new project documenting the small community out in my neighborhood, the Outer Sunset, and its enigmatic coastline which lies along the western stretch of San Francisco facing the wide open Pacific Ocean. Its no southern california thats for sure, and we like it just the way it is.