July 1, 2023 - Waldo Point Harbor

 
I have never been to the famous houseboat community in Sausalito. It is a bright, creative community, where one might imaging that all of the residents are artists and other creatives. Today I visited Waldo Point Harbor, just north from the slips for those luxury yachts and cabin cruisers. 

Like the other houseboat harbors I visited, Waldo Point was alive with color and artistic efforts. Every slip I visited was decorated with potted flowers, succulents, and in many cases sculptures, probably the products of the "artists in residence".  Today was especially vibrant, as the poppies were in full bloom, and the clear skies rendered colors at their most saturated. Incidentally, I broke my promise to refrain from post production manipulation, as I much preferred the results from my manipulations to those where I relied exclusively on the limits set  by the Kodachrome presets.

This craftsman (or woman) crafted an eye from around porthole of a window. The color scheme reminded me of  the color schemes seen on totem poles created by the indigenous populations of the Pacific Northwest. I suspect many other artists were similarly inspired, as I saw one houseboat painted in a color scheme that reminded me of the work of Piet Mondrian (1872-1944), based on the bold patches of color bordered by black lines that form rectangles of various sizes. I appreciated the homage to the artist, but not enough to include an image in this post.

This studious owl was a welcomed bit of whimsey. I used a  50mm F 2.0 TTartisans pancake telephoto lens for this one.

The sunflower collar on this whimsical face has to make everybody smile.

I used the Kodachrome preset for the original image, but found it looked exactly the same when I removed the color in post production. The years of harsh sunlight bleached all the color from the shells and the wood.

I will be leaving the strict Kodachrome simulation settings in my Fuji and return to the saturated, high contrast look of my own "home brew". While it doesn't simulate any film I ever used, let alone mastered, it renders my world in colors as I prefer to see them. And really, that's all it was ever about.