San Rafael 5, San Francisco 2013

Karin Ott

The view from the pool – of course there would be a pool 🙂 Though, before you rush out and buy a splendid house like this you might want to know that the owners spent over $100.000 repairing damages after a landslide on their lot a couple of yours ago. So we’ll just rent, right?

San Rafael 1, San Francisco 2013

Karin Ott

This summer I was privilliged to visit a house in San Rafael with an amazing garden and an amazing view of the San Francisco Bay. Of course I brought my camera 🙂

One of my photo themes this summer during my stay in the US was to play with known landmarks being out of focus. Here’s an example. The background is Mount Tamalpais – the iconic landmark of Marin County, just north of the Golden Gate

San Francisco 2012

I apologize for this picture to be out of the chronological sequence I stick to. I only just looked through the major part of our vacation pictures from this summer, and I couldn’t resist this one. I didn’t even have my Nikon yet. This is shot with a CoolPix.

The location is out towards Point Bonita Lighthouse, a sight than in the 10 years of family vacation we had yet to see. The model is as always my strawberry blond daughter, Ida. I love her serious look. The reason is not that she is following instructions. She was just totally pissed at me for not allowing her to throw her gum by the path.