Tilden Regional Park – Slow Shutter Speed

Posted on December 16, 2023 by Anne Sandler · 46 Comments

Lens Artists Challenge #280: Last Chance

It’s not very often in life that you get a second or last chance. It’s like seeing a purse in a store that you like but can’t decide to buy it. You go back to get it the next day, and it’s gone. Today Tina gives us that second chance, and our photos aren’t going away!

I had fun looking through my early years of photography to avoid Tina’s one rule of not having posted the image in LAPC before. Here are my choices.

Thanks to Ann-Christine for reminding us that there is still magic in this world in her challenge last week. I enjoyed seeing your memorable, magical posts. And thanks to Tina for this fun challenge. When you respond to her post, please link to it and use the Lens-Artists tag. Right now, WordPress is having trouble with the Lens-Artists tag in the reader, but we are making every effort to see all your posts.

And now for some end of the year news from the LAPC team: After having been an integral part of our team since its inception in June of 2018, Amy of Share and Connect will be leaving the team to begin an exciting new adventure. She and her husband will be traveling more extensively and making some happily-anticipated visits with family. We wish her all the best and look forward to her posts as she continues to respond to our challenges whenever possible. We are also announcing that this will be the final Lens-Artists challenge of 2023. We will return on January 6 to begin the New Year with our traditional Favorite Photos of 2023. We look forward to seeing you all again then. In the meanwhile we wish all who celebrate the happiest of holidays as well as a peaceful and joy-filled 2024.

See you in 2024. Have a great New Years and stay safe!

Posted on August 27, 2016August 27, 2016 by Anne Sandler · 4 Comments

A perfect day: Tilden Regional Park, continued

Tilden Regional park in Berkeley is a must go back to place. In addition to the weather being wonderfully perfect, the area is beautiful. And, there’s a lot to do. I would have loved to go to the children’s farm to capture the animals in my lens, but we ran out of time. We needed to leave to avoid the worst of the traffic.

So, here are pictures of the golf course from where we ate, the steam train and the merry-go-round. Needless to say, I slept on the way home. It was a full day of shooting. Yes, we will go back.

A portion of the golf course.

These animals are guarding the golf clubs!

Leaving on a steam train!

Can you see the steam?

Going into the tunnel.

The landscape.

An old wagon.

The round house.

Tame animals!

Lights and roof.

Carousel fun.

Shot from Inspiration Point

We were on our way out of the park.

What a view.

Posted on August 24, 2016August 24, 2016 by Anne Sandler

Finding cooler weather: Tilden Regional Park, Berkeley, California

Yes, we ran away! At least 1 1/2 hours west where the temperatures were about 20 degrees cooler. And, we enjoyed it. Camera Totin’ Tuesdays went to Tilden Regional Park in Berkeley and visited the Botanical Gardens, Golf Course, steam train and carousel.

It was a wonderful day. The park is magnificent and large, and the weather was delightful. While we didn’t expect any flowers this late in summer, we managed to find small blooms in the Botanical Gardens. The gardens were large and separated into different areas. We managed to walk through the entire garden before we stopped for lunch at the Golf Course.

After lunch we rode the miniature steam train and went to shoot the carousel (merry-g0-round). But, we didn’t get to everything. Maybe we’ll go back. Right now it’s in the high 80’s and low 90’s in the Sacramento area so we stayed local yesterday and visited the Sacramento Zoo.

In this post I’ll show you some of the Botanical Gardens. In my next post, I’ll show the rest. I hope those of you who are enjoying summer, are cool!