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Backgrounds for Museum Signs (5-17-06)

Photos to promote a Native American exhibit and presentations in early 2006
<= this is a 25% sized version for quick viewing (188 KB)
<= this is a 100% sized version for best printing (5.75 MB)
<= this is a 25% sized version for quick viewing (263 KB)
<= this is a 100% sized version for best printing (5.72 MB)
Pictured are Rouvaishyana, State Park Interpreter/Manager at the Morro Bay Museum of Natural History, and
Patty Dunton - per a request by docent Ray Easton - taken 11-1-05.

Morro Bay Campground - visualization study of the addition of an event display case
  <= display case is in front of the entrance building, centered, and off-center

<= display case is on the side of the entrance building

<= display case is on the side of roadway next to entrance building

Rookery Kiosk revisions in progress:
... here are some new higher resolution candidate images for use on the Heron Rookery sign.
These are large files and it may  take a while to open some of  the thumbnails below.

(1964x1308 1.10MB jpg version)
Above is Revised 5-16-06 to make background brighter blue like theme on larger panel
Link to a .psd Photoshop CS2 version of above

8-23a-05 Candidate layout - This is yet an even darker print at 16"x10.65 borderless" (1964x1308) - Photoshop adj. 25-0-75, 0.25" border
Note, this darker image may not print as well as the sample below, depending on your printer setup.  More detail is visible below,
but this above darker image may have a better visual appeal mounted in a display case outside.

8-22a-05 Candidate layout - print at 16"x10.65 borderless" (1964x1308)

  <= this is a "burned" version to darken some wings
<= this is a "raw" version
8-21-05 Candidate layout - prints okay at 16"x25" (1964x1308)

8-5-05 change to be made:  substitute this improved Turkey Vulture (jpg, psd) for the sample in all panels below

8-2a-05 Candidate layout - prints okay at 16"x24" (1964x1308)
(spelling error corrected form 8-1-05, revised layout)

8-3H2Ogone-05 Candidate layout - prints okay at 16"x24" (1964x1308)
(revised 8-3-05 to restore part of Great Blue Heron's head that was missing)
This version has the water removed from the Great Blue Heron so
that all the birds are w/o distracting backgrounds

8-3bHAB3-05 Candidate layout - prints okay at 16"x24" (1964x1308)
This is the "Habitat Version" (1.75 MB - large for review here)
(revised 8-3c-05 to put Great Blue Heron on top and Great Egret on bottom
and added attributions to photographers,
and now 8-3bHAB3-05... is using originals from Gary and Marc for the Great Blue Heron and Great Egret)
The Great Blue Heron in this composite is by Gary Robertshaw,
The Great Egret in this composite is by Marc Kurth
The Black Crowned Night Heron in this composite is by Cleve Nash

Black Crowned Night Heron
<= versions L-R raw and enhanced
The above photos are property of photographer Cleve Nash, Cambria, CA, with permission to use with attribution, in a State Parks Heron Rookery interpretative sign.
Cleve Nash's "Embarcadero" shot:  the 1/3rd reduced size versions above are for preview only . .

<= (1630x1087, Shows bird clearly, but over waves, but not so representative of the Rookery)

Great Blue Heron

(use Gary's http://www.pbase.com/uzgroup/image/40263174 or 
http://www.pbase.com/roberthouse/image/40262737 ?)

Great Egret

(Marc Kurth's http://morrobayphotos.com/birds/Egrets/imagepages/image36.html ?)



(Gary Robertshaw's http://www.pbase.com/roberthouse/image/1697229/original ?)

Red Shouldered Hawk

Cormorant (unspecified)

Turkey Vulture
<= (1218x1540 1MB version of smaller  http://morro-bay.com/digitalchocolate/images/11-10-04-morro-strand/turkey-vulture-up-close-609.jpg )

<= 1113x1219 version (529KB)
<= 1113x1219 version compressed (161KB)

<= 1248x654 version (now obsolete)
<= 2496x1308 version (now obsolete)

Montaña de Oro sign mockups for Rouvaishyana
Click on the below thumbnails to enlarge.

Campground and Historic Spooner Ranch House (revised 5-23-05 to be like the two- sided MBSP Campground sign)	Spooner Ranch House, Nature Store, Ranger Station (revised 5-18-05)	Spooner's Cove (revised 5-18-05)

The following are the older drafts for reference only

 
Note, these pictures are fairly large (1752x1168) 0.5 Mb files and will download slowly for dial-up connections.
This is done so details in the pictures will reproduce on 8x10 prints.
If you are having trouble making a picture you save "print-to-fit-a-page" you might try using 
irfanview.com -- A decent free utility to view, print and manipulate images -- download their IrfavView32 program
(especially useful to re-size images, and print "best-fit-to-page") (Only handles one image at a time)
... as explained at http://morro-bay.com/bookmarks/

For reference, this is what the new two-sided sign looks like at the Morro Bay State Park Campground entrance (5-05)

The following are photos taken or otherwise legally obtained by Mike Baird to be considered for
inclusion in new ccnha.org and www.slostateparks.com web sites to help further describe State Park locations, and individual Adventures with Nature walks...
starting from the June 2005 walk list taken from http://www.morrobaymuseum.org/adventures/ -- click the thumbnails
below to see a larger image.    Many more alternative pictures (about 1750) can be browsed by
searching the site morro-bay.com using Google images.  A few of the pictures below depict similar sites and not the actual walk locations.

Date	Day	Time	Title	Presenter	Info	Candidate Photo
3	Fri	10:00 am	Exploring Oceano Lagoon and Pismo Dunes	Joe Burnett	Click
3	Fri	10:00 am	Hike the Estero Bluff	Carole & Phil Adams	Click
4	Sat	9:00 am	A Peak, A Creek, and A Bluff	Wightman & Baird	Click
4	Sat	10:30 am	Great Blue Herons, Egrets and Other Rookery Wonders	Louise Abbott	Click
4	Sat	2:00 pm	Black Hill Trail	Roger Randall	Click
4	Sat	2:00 pm	Let's Talk Turtles	Bob & Judy Thomas	Click
4	Sat	2:00 pm	Plant of the Month Club-June 2005:Mariposa Lilies	Barbara Renshaw	Click
5	Sun	2:30 pm	Dune Dwellers - Chumash & Dunites	Jack Beigle	Click
7	Tue	9:00 am	Birding Multiple Habitats	Phil Adams	Click
8	Wed	9:00 am	Montaña de Oro Bluff Nature Walk	Barbara & Ernest Eddy	Click
8	Wed	10:00 am	Oceano Lagoon	Joe Burnett	Click
9	Thu	7:00 am	Intertidal Life at Hazard Reef	P. Riley & G. Mason	Click
10	Fri	9:30 am	Native Plant Gardens & Oceano Lagoon	Grace & Jack Beigle	Click
10	Fri	10:00 am	White's Point Vistas	Nancy Hartwick	Click
11	Sat	11:00 am	Living History at the Spooner Ranch House	The Pecho Players	Click
11	Sat	1:00 pm	Beavers at the Oceano Lagoon	T. J. Carsey	Click
11	Sat	2:00 pm	Sketch Walk (Los Osos Oaks Reserve)	Barbara Renshaw	Click
12	Sun	9:00 am	Franciscan Melange at Estero Bluffs	George Mason	Click
12	Sun	10:00 am	Birds and Nature at Morro Strand	Freeman & Worth Hall	Click
14	Tue	2:00 pm	Great Blue Herons, Egrets and Other Rookery Wonders	Louise Abbott	Click
16	Thu	9:30 am	Grand Dune Trail	Jack Beigle	Click	picture taken from http://www.beachtown.com/dunites.html
16	Thu	2:00 pm	Let's Talk Turtles	Bob & Judy Thomas	Click
17	Fri	10:00 am	Grand Dune Trail	Joe Burnett	Click
18	Sat	10:00 am	Chorro Valley and the Estuary	Nancy Hartwick	Click
18	Sat	10:00 am	Oceano Lagoon	Renee & Auburn Atkins	Click
18	Sat	3:00 pm	Nature's 7 in 1 Spectacular	Bea & Jack Morrow	Click
19	Sun	2:00 pm	Great Blue Herons, Egrets and Other Rookery Wonders	Louise Abbott	Click
22	Wed	9:00 am	Montaña de Oro Bluff Nature Walk	Barbara & Ernest Eddy	Click
24	Fri	2:00 pm	Discover Magnificent Morro Rock	R. Olszewski & C. Odekirk	Click
25	Sat	8:00 am	Life and Times on the Shore	Norma Wightman	Click
25	Sat	9:00 am	Hike Coon Creek	Zehnder & Baird	Click
25	Sat	10:30 am	Chumash Indians - A Fascinating Culture	M. Enfield & T. Solomon	Click
25	Sat	11:00 am	Living History at the Spooner Ranch House	The Pecho Players	Click

Photos from April 12, 2005 docent visit to Camatta Ranch and Shell Creek
(map  Lazy Arrow Outdoor Adventures at Camatta Ranch)
These photos will be posted here for just a short period, and will then be deleted.

Some of our Hosts - Felecia, her daughter, and oldest son Hoston, other son

Farm animals

Some of our leaders in action - Barbara Renshaw, John McCabe, Tyra Solomon,
Chuck Mills - Not shown, Ray Easton (sorry!)

Enjoying lunch break and program

Flowers at Camatta Ranch and Shell Creek

Here are a few  full-resolution versions of some photos requested: (~3 MB each)

Photo essay from April 13, 2004 visit is at http://morro-bay.com/docents/easton/camatta/report.htm

This is a Marc Kurth Photo --
While waiting for new content to be posted at MorroBay.ws, check out
Marc Kurth's wonderful collection of Morro Bay Photos
at http://morrobayphotos.com/

more coming soon