Better than being on the freeway, I suppose. ;) Marnie, I'll wager you'll be pleased with your project "grade". I've enjoyed both the shots and the prose.
Jack --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I am nearing the end of my project: The Intersection of Man-Made > and Nature > in Contra Costa County and Surrounds (meaning just over the border > into > Alameda County basically), and here is what I have found: > > No visible signs of pollution (because there are none), well-managed > and > clean landfills (which I did not take pictures of because they were > uninteresting), garbage by the side of the road only twice, lots of > wild life (except for > deer who mainly seem to occupy the senior community I live in), lots > and > lots and lots of well managed and kept clean open space, very low > level of > ugliness, nature and man-made living side by side peacefully, a > seemingly well > contained and well-run and clean Shell refinery in Martinez (the same > might not > be said for the Shell refinery in Richmond, but I didn't explore > Richmond -- > I kept to central county), other seemingly well-contained and clean > industrial > plants, too many people, and too many cars, and houses being built > up to the > edges of Mt. Diablo State Park. > > So overall the county is doing very well considering how rapidly it > has > grown over the last twenty years. That doesn't mean there isn't > pollution in the > Delta (some maybe from refinery plants, and it's not visible and > there is > only the tail end of the Delta in CC County) and it doesn't mean > there weren't > bigger problems in the past. > > The main crunch facing this county and others in the area in the > future is > continued over population. East Bay Mud has been warning for years > that if > over development occurs then there may well not be enough water for > everyone, > especially in drought years. But certain areas now have to have > approval for > new development and it has been that way for quite a while, partly > to avoid > ugliness and partly for the water situation. > > So I'd say CC County is basically coping with the environmental > problems of > overpopulation as well as any county in California, which on the > whole, is > overpopulated and will continue to grow in population exponentially. > > That's my mini-report on what I have seen. :-) > > I just got Lightroom, but have not played with its B&W conversion > yet, so > this is still done in Elements 5. > > I also have more shots of this from slightly different angles and > focal > lengths. So this may not be the best one. > > http://members.aol.com/eactivist/PAWS/pages/room.htm > > Comments welcome. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > > --------------------------------------------- > Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. > > > > > ************************************** See what's free at > http://www.aol.com. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get the free Yahoo! toolbar and rest assured with the added security of spyware protection. http://new.toolbar.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/norton/index.php -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
