1997 Oakland Hills Panorama - a photo on Flickriver

1997 Oakland Hills Panorama

            I can't even explain the impulse that invested many, many, hours in this questionable image. We do and we do and sometimes we know why. This is two frames I shot from a nice, elevated, location, 6 years after the awful fire, and you can see all kinds of regrowth, the improved interchange to 13 South and so forth. 

The original images were level but there was no way to combine them levelly, so I tilted them and adjusted until I could get a match. Then I went nuts blending. some months or years later I figured out how to make a plausible sky, declared victory and here it is. 

I left the right hand edge inclined to show what I started with. Its perpendicular to the horizon. What might not at first be apparent is that a lot of the foreground is made up, particularly in the middle. Once I started, I had to finish it or I would go mad... I hope you enjoy it...

The views are South, on the left, and West on the right. The viewpoint is Hiller Highlands, at the Oakland/Berkeley border. The Caldecot tunnels are out of sight to the left.  Lake Temiscal and the park around it are in the center, Rockridge is the neighborhood closest on the right.  San Francisco is on the horizon, Marin County on the right side, San Mateo County on the left. It is, as a matter of fact, quite a view.

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Taken in: United States / California / Claremont (show map)

Taken on: January 1, 1997

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