A visit to San Diego's mission

Back of the bell tower.  

I met my friend Terry at the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala for a photo day.  It is California's First Mission.
Here are a three of my favorite photos from the day.

Wall of crosses (gift shop)

 

Orchids

Another iPhone shot, this was taken last spring at the Carlsbad flower fields.   I recently tried out some new apps and liked the "frame" from this one (but can't remember the name!).  I need to start writing down which one I'm using ...

New meaning to "sailing around the world"

Sailing around the world

I had taken this photograph last October with my "real" camera, then made it to a panorama and had it on my iPhone Camera Roll.  It was one I had posted here:   2010PhotoBlog.  

I was playing around with an app on the iPhone called TinyPlanet yesterday, used the panorama shot of the Snipe sailboats, cropped it a bit and liked this shot.

Those apps are so much fun!

Sunset with moon rise ...

Unusual sunset for North county San Diego.  A slight foggy haze at sunset, plus these gorgeous skies and a rising almost-full moon.

This was shot with my iPhone, then processed with Filterstorm app (mainly for frame).

Bodie CA

Hipstamatic app

Hipstamatic, Salvadore camera

Several months ago I was able to stop in Bodie CA on my way to Reno NV.  It's off Hwy 395, fairly easy 13-mile drive  during the summer (except when they do road repairs!).   I had fun with the Hipstamatic camera app on my iPhone and liked these two versions of the old Shell Gasoline sign.

The Salvadore camera produces unpredictable results -- I liked this one of the sign.





























PS:  Thanks to friend Kerrie, who identified the beautiful white flower in my last post.  It's called a Carissa macrocarpa.  

More flowers from the iPhone

Honeysuckle

The flower on the left is found on well-pruned bushes in my neighborhood.  The green berries are starting to turn red.  I don't know the name, but will find out at the next trip to the nursery (unless someone reading this knows what it is).

The honeysuckle is growing wild up a hill along the path.  So much fun walking with my iPhone  ;-)

Pano from MBYC

I'm hanging out with my grandsons at Mission Bay Yacht Club.  One is busy in sailing camp, the other busy on shore.  I had some time to snap this panorama of the area before it got busy.  Love the big puffy clouds!   It's been a beautiful day.   I used an app called Auto-Stitch to stitch the 5 shots together.  Not bad for my iPhone.