My Cali Trip (Part 1)

This post is more about my experience to California rather than the greatness of my pictures. ;)

I went to California for about 2 weeks and it was amazing. I could write so much about my experience there, because it was just wonderful. I'm going to post the pictures and explain them instead of listing my whole experience with picutres in detail. Although, the pictures will go in chronological order. 

So obviously my trip started out on the plane. I flew from Philadelphia to San Francisco and it took about   5-6 hours. Our flight was at 6 a.m. and we reached there at about 9 a.m. (3 hour time difference) So this was taken in the plane and i'm not quite sure where exactly. If I could guess, I'd guess California or Nevada.  As we went, I did see the big Rocky's and it was a breathtaking view. Clear skies all over (for the most part). The altitude is a point to say because we were actually quite low, but not too low or too high. Just right so you can see the horizon in a distance and the mountains.

This is a picture you'd have to guess on. Take a guess on what it is, and I'll type the story at the bottom of this post. Seriously though, think about what this is. 

This is the backup story behind sculpture for the next 2 pictures. 

During the week, we went to the University of California, Berkeley. This was a sculpture in the Business School. Something that I don't do quite often do at all is, frame my pictures. That day, I was trying to figure out a way to take this picture, and I spotted some tables and chairs outside. The chairs have these holes on the back and so I took this picture through the hole of the chair. One thing I would do with this picture is crop the bottom, the black/gray emptiness, so you get a better view of the object.  

This is just a different angle of the sculpture. I didn't want to just take a picture of this, plain, as it is. My eyes spotted a tree and I took this with some leaves at the top. 

Now we all know that parking is difficult in big cities such as New York City. Even San Francisco parking is very difficult. So naturally, people choose easier transportation like public transportation. This would include buses, trains, and bicycles. Biking and walking are so popular in Berkeley. With this picture, I just wanted to capture that aspect of getting around places. A lot of the schools in the college have these bicycle stands for people to put their bikes. It's a brilliant idea. :)

 This is the main entrance to the business school of Berkeley. The Haas School of Business is very well known across the country for it's highly educational program. They have gotten many, many awards, even a Nobel Peace Prize, and highly educated professors. This school has graduated great entrepreneurs. Which is why it is a place to visit. 

Not to disgust you or anything at all, but I found this in Berkeley. It's not disgusting at all actually. It's just rust, I think (80% sure by the looks of it). Despite my first reaction of saying "gross", this intrigued me so much. It looks so exotic and the colors stretching out is so peculiar. Even the detail is engrossing. Well, this is just something I passed by and thought it was cool. 

Another photo with a frame! So this is a very tall tree framed by a concrete railing. Nothing special about this  except that I wanted to get a picture of California's humongous trees. This tree isn't a Redwood (I think) nor is it a Sequoia (I think). It was just a nice, tall, innocent tree and I wanted to get a picture of it. It was on campus, which was where I found this elegant concrete railing.  

Now, for that picture all the way above, the second picture, here's the story. It was some salt flats that we passed over on the way to the airport. The little thing sticking out on the left is the plane engine. The salt flats were very stunning though. There were all kinds of  whites, yellows, and even a red. It was all right next to the bay waters, so it looked like green marshes but in color. It was quite a sight from the plane. (If you guessed correctly, great job!) (I couldn't guess what it was until I looked it up online. Although...when I first looked at it from the plane, I thought it was a salt flat, until I saw red ones.)