Aerial Photoblog of NV to CA - 6/12/05 TR

[skier666]

June 12th, 2005 - Pics go East to West.

I was lucky enough to get a lift back to the Bay Area last weekend, and got some cool shots of clear day from the East (Lake Tahoe, NV) to the West (Pebble Beach, CA)...pretty much a straight mellow southwest shot from South Lake to Pebble Beach.

I thought the pics showed a good representation of the microclimates/terrain from Tahoe to the Bay. Not to mention the amount of snow still up in the hills from South Lake looking towards the southern Sierras. The only pics I didn't get were of the ocean, but I threw an old one of Santa Cruz and Pebble Beach from last year...

Music: Calyx - Morphology



Lake Tahoe, CA & NV:



Echo Lakes & Desolation Wilderness:



Desolation Wilderness part II:



Looking to the South flying over Luther Pass:



Chair 10 - "the wall" at Kirkwood....I was getting pretty bounced around at this point, so many of my photos came out blurry.



Chair 6 - "Cornice"......I think this pic is tight...



Over the Sierra foothills, Placerville area aka "Gold Country"



Northern San Joaquin Valley



Diablo Range:



Mt. Hamilton at 4,200 feet is the highest mountain in the backround also part of the Diablo Range:



...and beginning into Silicon Valley:



OLDER PICS but continuing to the WEST...courtesy of Nzphotoslave aka Miles Holden:

Somewhere near Santa Cruz, I guess:



and Pebble Beach....pretty sure but I don't play golf, so I could be wrong



El Fin....Enjoy

[bcrider]

I love flying on clear days.

cool pics...love the deso ones. thanks for the beta too...echo lakes is thawed. A boat shuttle for turns could be in order.

[cj001f]

Pleasure Point. O'Neills house is middle of the picture 2/3 way up by it's lonseome on the ocean.

Sounds like a fun trip!

From a youthfull drunken evening I have the flag from the rearward of the holes pictured

[runethechamp]

Chair 6 - "Cornice"......I think this pic is tight...

YEAH, I like this one. A couple more like that and we could map out all the cool lines at Kirkwood.

[Son1cdeth]

totally. fucking. sickbird.

[Squirrel99]

NICE! 666 taking to the 'next level' scoping lines from above.

This one brings back memories- Arty gave Funken, Pollard and I some 'short cut' directions toward Sac (supposedly secret Tyrone routes) but instead we got lost, people didn't know the names of the roads we were told to look for and we got to take the subie 'off roading' through 3-4 feet of snow on one of the 'somewhat passable' roads

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

This one brings back memories- Arty gave Funken, Pollard and I some 'short cut' directions toward Sac (supposedly secret Tyrone routes)

Funny shit...asking Arty for the "secret Tyrone routes" when you had Tyrone's cell phone number

love givin you shit for that!

(you can nearly see my house in that pic)

[SquawMan]

a few years back, a photographer with a digital camera and helicopter went down the entire coast of CA and took detailed pictures of every stretch of coastline from a few thousand feet up

you can search the index by coordinates or location names

paparazzi used to use his photos to zoom in on celebrity compounds in the L.A. area

for some reason, the best feature, the ability to see the superlarge high res photo's doesn't work (the Steisand lawsuit may have caused them to remove all of the blown up pics)

http://www.californiacoastline.org/c...gs=0&year=2004


PebbleBeach:





Streisand files $50 million lawsuit over aerial photos
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BRUCE HARING, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, May 29, 2003

(05-29) 20:49 PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) --

Barbra Streisand is suing an aerial photographer and his associates for $50 million, claiming pictures they provide to others of her Malibu home and property violates her right to privacy.

Photographer Kenneth Adelman, 39, of Watsonville; his Web hosting service, Level 42; and Pictopia, a photo agency that disseminates his work, were named in the suit. It was filed May 20 in Los Angeles Superior Court and alleges five counts of privacy intrusion, including violation of the state's anti-paparazzi act.

The suit asks that the defendants stop disseminating the photographs, which use "enhanced technology" and deprive Streisand "of the economic value of the use of the images of her property and residence."

Adelman's California Coastal Records Project Web site, californiacoastline.org, provides an aerial photography survey of the California coast for scientific and other researchers. His nonprofit organization has already captured 12,000 images of most of the coast, save for a portion near Vandenberg Air Force base near Lompoc and Santa Maria.

Streisand's suit alleges that detailed photographs of her property and residence she said were taken by Adelman and sold by Pictopia identify routes to enter her property and provide details on the residence's features that can't be seen from a public vantage point.

The suit cites past experiences with "stalkers, threats to her safety, and undesirable personalities" who Streisand says are now provided a "road map into her residence" by the Web site's pictures.

Adelman, a retired Silicon Valley entrepreneur and millionaire, said he was "stunned" by the lawsuit, claiming his intent was to provide a baseline for conservationists and other land-use researchers interested in a detailed record of the coastline.

"I think there's a free speech issue here," he said. "The photographs were taken in a public place where she doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy."

Adelman self-funds his project. He and his wife, Gabrielle, use their personal helicopter and the latest computer and photographic equipment to take the photos.

They say any revenues derived from purchases of the photographs are donated to a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the California coast. Numerous state and local agencies have used the photos in their reports and scientific research, Adelman said, including the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the United States Geological Service.

[Steven S. Dallas]

Not only does 666 post the sickest TRs, but I'm pretty sure he just invented the term "aerial photoblog."

Kudos, my friend. Kudos.