There is nothing like an impending move to stimulate the urge to go out and take pictures of all the nice stuff less than 10 miles away, before that ready access is forever gone. In four weeks we move to Outer Sunset in San Francisco (another rental, more on that later). Today we went to Seal Point Park and Coyote Point, both parks in San Mateo County that border the Bay and afford some pretty good views of airplanes landing at nearby San Francisco Airport.

At Coyote Point I practiced taking pictures of sea gulls in flight. At first I tried leading the flight trajectory and hitting the shutter just as the bird passed through. That didn’t work because by the time my old camera was able to snap a picture, the bird was already gone. What I ended up having to do was to actually track the bird with the camera (as if I were a sniper or something) and hit the shutter. The speed setting on the camera was fast enough to deal with the moving camera and moving bird, so all I had to do was keep my eye on the bird.