Tag Archives: Ducati S2R 1000 Monster

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Hills

…And it’s banging… Corner by corner, turn by turn, the bend of the asphalt and the rise of the road. The way your heartbeat races. That feeling of floating. The movement in the sky. The movement among the lines as you glide from edge to … Read More

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Crashing Waves

The Raptor lifts. It’s claws out. And it’s eyes down. Always on the hunt. Forever moving with the landscape and rising above the trees. Rising above the noise. The wind whips. The clouds separate. And then they focus tiny tunnels of light on slimmer pieces … Read More

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Macro Tests

Canon EF 50mm f/2.5 CompactMacro Flickr gallery after the jump…

On the Coast

When a Day Decides

The coffee is warm as I watch the waves come crashing. Sunlight hunts and pecks its way forward. Drizzles rays in-between the hallucinogenic stratosphere and wraps its very hands around the beginnings of yet another day. A newspaper rests between the thumb and forefinger, as … Read More

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Kinda like Kanan… but Better

Every so often you think to yourself there’s a moment here. A moment you can really believe in. A corner to grind. A curve to conquer. A straight away to blast down at top speed. It’s a thought that seems so true that it shoots … Read More

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Chasing What Remains

It is an acerbic expressway, hardened by time and fluid to the touch, yet built through the prism of a window to another era. Egalitarian in construction, its rambling mass flows from one hillside-avenue to another, clasping hands with the countryside as it sways from … Read More

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Rippling Asphalt

The tarmac is somewhere between damp and desperate as she dances away. Instinctively I start to fight it, maybe even fear it, but she doesn’t care. She doesn’t need me. She’s all grown up. Free. Able to feel and emote and move. Blipping the throttle, … Read More

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Cambria Clouds

The cloud cover hovers over the edge of the known world. Lonely lines intersecting as they unfold in big billows of damp whiteness. A cool chill runs across the face. You feel the warmth evaporate. You see it disappear. You wonder to yourself if you … Read More

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Lucid Revolutions

It’s a vibrant day in-between fall storms when I find myself standing before a saturated ocean and it’s hard charging sea. Beyond me lies one long ruffled sheet of blueness. The crisp squalls mercilessly battering the shoreline over and over. With force. And power. And … Read More

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The Vivid Vista

There’s a shake… And a shutter… And the slightest side to side maneuver… The engine hums, its bangs, it butts its head up against the limit… A sense of excitement and purpose and pure joy flows… The kind of overt outpouring that makes one take … Read More