Canon EOS 5D
ƒ/8
24 mm
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200

At the south end of the SF Bay, Alviso has sunk 17ft below sea level in some areas as the ground water was pumped out for an earlier era of agriculture.

This National Wildlife Refuge is part of the tour of the neighboring sewage treatment plant.

(P.S. With this photo, I discovered the 10MB limit on photo sizes, and had to reduce resolution. bummer.)

9 responses to “Bottom of the Bay”

  1. That limit is not new, quite old actually, since late Fall 2006. I discovered a while ago that non-pros have a 10 group per photo limit since January and pros have a 60 group per photo limit. Yes, a few step backwards.

    There are other limits since the Fall such as the number of tags that can be added. If you want to know since when all this, I can search. I am too lazy to do this now and rushing to leave anyway.

    Nice intriguing photo!

  2. oops. my bad. I never hit the limit before… and this photo must be an anomaly with all the detail… I will edit my P.S. accordingly… And, good news should be coming soon on flickr’s file sizes going up.

  3. Great! I had to downsize a beautiful photo once and I do not understand what was different from the others.

    The changes I mentioned are from when in December or so, without notice, we no longer had limits for downloading.

  4. it’s the amount of insane detail and color variation that kept the .jpg at too high a file size…. jpg compression takes advantage of there being more uniform and identical colour patches in a photo to reduce image size accordingly!
    …. it’s cuz there’s too much datail in this ultra-cool photo! information over-load! especially the bottom half!
    😛

  5. Gorgeous!!


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  6. This is the Elephant skin ‘s Landscape : )

  7. Hi
    Just stumbled across your photo stream, you have some great pictures here.
    I was wondering, could you tell me what these strange coloured areas are around the Alviso area?
    maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Alv…

  8. For many years, the ponds you see in that satellite view were used as salt evaporators. Microbe growth provides the rich colors, as can be seen in the Great Salt Lake which blooms with phytoplankton in January followed by several species of diatoms.

  9. Thanks for the info Steve, I read somewhere in your stream that there was a sewage works in the area, when I saw those pans I thought Noooooooo it couldn’t be 🙂

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