Kelson's Photos @kelsonv@photog.social

@Chuculate I believe it was originally built to shelter the Spruce Goose (Howard Hughes' experimental all-wooden giant seaplane) when it was on display at Long Beach. I know that's what it was used for in the 1980s, anyway.

The plane is in a museum in Oregon now, and according to Wikipedia, the dome is now used as a terminal for Carnival Cruise lines.

Not as good a photo, but a wider view for context, before they repainted a couple of years ago. The wall and balconies are on the tower to the left of the frame.

Looking up at the walls of a hotel near LAX. The #patterened #facade in the first photo is repeated on several other walls around the hotel. Above it are many layers of #interleaved balconies for the hotel rooms.

Does anyone know the term for this #architecture style? It's sort of post-Googie, pre-Brutalist?

#LosAngeles #photo

I had to be somewhere near the coast this morning, so I figured I'd take 10 minutes to look for seagulls for #iNaturalist. I found a lot of them, but they were mostly hanging out on the beach, not flying around. Still, that's plenty for observation purposes, and I did manage to catch this shot too!

#birds #seagull #photo #beach #ocean #wave

Oo's there?

A dove spotted on my walk back from lunch.

#birds #photo #dove #nature #tree

Two of many monarch butterflies I saw today on a walk at nearby botanical gardens. Most of them were too busy flying around to stop anywhere I could catch them on camera, but there were a few that paused long enough.

#butterflies #nature #photo #MonarchButterfly

@KelsonV I just realized it's literally confusing hawks and doves.

@hafnia Thank you!

Tonight's #crescent #moon. One shot for the daylit crescent, the other for the night side lit by #EarthShine (with some clouds as a bonus). 8YO helped with focusing the telephoto lens.

The second shot is a lot noisier than I'd like since I was adjusting levels on the jpeg, but I have the raw file, so maybe I'll be able to do something better with it.

#photo #NightSky

@aciccarello Fortunately seagulls also tend to be fearless compared to other birds. Sparrows will fly away before I get close. I've seen a seagull wait until the last minute to move out of the way of an SUV, then fly right back down behind it.

I found this while looking for old pictures to submit to iNaturalist. I don't think there's *quite* enough detail on the seagull here to identify the species!

The ship, incidentally, is the Queen Mary, launched in the 1930s as a transatlantic liner. It's been permanently docked in Long Beach, California for several decades and is now run as a hotel.

#FotoFails #Seagull #ship #QueenMary #California

@alexis @youcantoo Oh wow...!

That may be part of my problem: since I tend to see them away from water, they don't want to stop anywhere nearby. Next time I'm hiking near a pond I'll camp out for a bit.

Thanks for the tip!

@youcantoo Nice! I never seem to be able to catch them when they're still.

@artsyhonker @raye Yeah, I think that's it. Thanks!

Discarded seed pod. A dried-out fig, maybe? It was under an olive tree, but it's definitely not an olive!

Best guess: a squirrel or something grabbed it from another yard and didn't finish it before scurrying off.

#photo #plants #nature #SeedPod #ground #shadow

@youcantoo Very nice silhouettes and crater texture!