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Birder. Northern California Native plant gardener. Fujifilm. GIS professional. Geologist. AvGeek.
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Today (12/14/2025)! Look at those slats! And the condensation. United 777-2 (N796UA) taking off runway 28L for Munich from SFO

#B772 #N796UA #SFO #PlaneSpotting #Aviation #Fujifilm #SOoC
A United 777-200 taking off, gear already up, with slats down and flaps slightly visibly down. The slats are shadowed as the sun is behind the aircraft (though out of frame but causing a lot of glare). Wing condensation is visible above and behind the rear wing edge. There’s also visible condensation in the left engine. The aircraft fills the whole photo.
December 15, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Rumors are true! The sun still exists (where I live, we’ve been covered in tule fog for literal weeks). This is heading south of San Pablo (California’s Bay Area).
Photo in a moving car, passenger side, showing the end of a fog or low stratus clouds above a freeway.
December 14, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Bauzten, December 2023 #Bautzen #StreetPhotography #Fujifilm #SOoC
A night scene with warm lights glowing off the cobble streets & three story apartments, with lights strung across the street. Wreaths hang at the center of each light strand. Silhouettes of people with long shadows are walking down the pedestrian friendly street.
December 13, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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December 15, 2023: at Frankfurt Airport, Germany, a human for scale is behind a United 777-300 (N2243U). Hard stands are the best.

#B773 #EDDF #FRA #Aviation #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting #Fujifilm
The belly of a United 777-300 (N2243U), looming over the tarmac. The main 12-wheel landing gear are front and center, with a human in front of one of the wheels. The wheels cover more than half of their body. The red beacon, which is off, and an antennae is visible above the gear. Some cargo is visible behind the plane.
December 12, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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January 20, 2023: Delta 757-200 (N723TW) taxiing to depart on 28L to JFK with the Berkeley hills in the background

#B752 #SFO #Aviation #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting #Fujifilm
Delta 757-200 (N723TW) is taxiing under clear, yet somewhat hazy, skies. The Berkeley hills are very clearly visible, along with the skyline of Berkeley and Oakland. Sandpipers are lounging in the bay in front of the SFO runway landfill. Sunlight is refleting off the Delta's red arrow tail. The 757 doesn't look so goofy here as part of its gear wheels are obscured by the landfill's riprap.
December 11, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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United 737 Max 8 (N37348) landing at SFO from Kona, Hawaii

#B38M #SFO #Aviation #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting #Fujifilm
A Boeing 737 is on approach to SFO, with its gear down, under very overcast skies. Its red beacon lights are visible. Some moisture vortices can be seen streaming off its flaps and under its elevators.
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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I had to reimage my RaspberryShake because I lost its password (🤪). It went well! Here’s how it felt #RaspberryShake
The seismic signal of unplugging the RaspberryShake RaspberryPi was extreme. Then there was an empty gap of data for about two hours. The final install wasn’t quite as bad but it took a few minutes for the sensors to calm down.
December 10, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Qatar A350-1000 (A7-ANQ) landing at SFO from Doha and a United 787-9 (N17963) starting its takeoff roll to Papeete.

#A7ANQ #N17963 #B789 #A35K #SFO #Aviation #AvGeek #PlaneSpotting #Fujifilm
A Qatar A350-1000 lands on SFO's 28R as a United 7879 starts its take-off roll on 28L. The bay is just visible in front of the airport's runway landfill. The A350-1000 has its characteristic expanded uncarriage with six total wheels, while the 787-9 looks sad, feeling left out with only four wheels per main landing gear.
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Here’s Japan’s ~M7.6 earthquake signal from my home seismometer #Earthquake #RaspberryShake
A seismograph showing a strong seismic signal between Japan and Northern California
December 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Today’s West Canada (near Southeast Alaska) M7 earthquake was clearly recorded on my RaspberryShake #Earthquake #RaspberryShake
A RaspberryShake app screen capture showing a clear seismic signal for the M7 Western Canada/Southeastern Alaska earthquake. The seismometer is located in Northern California.
December 6, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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X-Plane 12.3 and Little NavMap: Using Historical Weather: https://www.distortions.net/2025/12/06/xplane-and-little-navmap-using.html

A classic “How-to” on use of X-Plane 12.3’s historical weather with Little NavMap #XPlane #FlightSimulator
A screen capture showing that Little NavMap's Weather->Airport Weather Source is set to Flight Simulator. Other sources are unset or unchecked. A screen capture showing that Little NavMap's Weather->Wind Source is set to Flight Simulator (X-Plane Only). Other sources are unset or unchecked. A screen capture of X-Plane 12.3 showing that Real-World Weather is set to "Conditions as of 7 days ago" with both "Real-world weather" and "Use sim time, not real time" checked. The time of day is set to November 29, 7:43 local or 15:43 UTC. "Track real-world date and time" is unchecked. A macOS Finder listing of weather data newer than November 29. These files, beginning with GRIB and metar and ending with the dates, need to be deleted after setting X-Plane 12.3 to a historical date.
December 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Sunset tonight #Sunset #CAWx
High altitude clouds reflect bright orange to light pink of s sunset beyond dry gravelly area with an overhanging tree, a fence, and an elevated freeway where the guardrails & a car is silhouetted.
December 3, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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A raven. #Raven #BirdPhotography #Birds #SacramentoWildlifeRefuge #Fujifilm #SOoC
A photo of a raven from the front, as its perched on the tip of a bare branch. Its stark black feathers stand out agaist a blue sky. Its beak is slightly open, almost as if it's saying something. There's a glint in its left eye.
November 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM