Silhouettes are quite powerful. Here is another of my favorites. This was taken about 20 minutes before sunrise in Lakeport which is a small town on Clearlake CA Nothing fancy. Long exposure, so I used the mode on camera that reduces sensor noise by taking two exposures. One with the shutter open and one with … Continue reading
Overall, I like this picture of Lower Yosemite Falls, but the problem is, I wish the model on the log in the foreground actually occupied more of the foreground. I would also like to get some of the sky. This is the widest angle lens I have, which is why I didn’t get closer to … Continue reading
The title to this post is a maxim from a sign common on the road here in California. It is also good advice when shooting digital photographs or dealing with photographs in post production. Getting the histogram correct as early as possible in the process is probably the most important thing in photography. Here is … Continue reading
Short and sweet today. A picture of down town Oakland reflecting off of Lake Merritt. I am going to try to take this picture again, but here is what I am going to differently: I am going to use HDR and bracketing to try to get rid of some of the star patterns around the … Continue reading
This photograph is from a guest photographer, Amol. The photograph is in response to the post Sleep Train and is another picture capturing humans being themselves. Okay, so the commute is real, but the commuters are only visually there and virtually elsewhere. A comment of how isolated we make ourselves? (read “The Lockless Door” by … Continue reading
On my commute, this morning, I was surrounded by snoring. This weeks seems to have taken more than its normal toll on my fellow travelers. Not a great picture… not much that can be done in post, but an idea that has promise. A pictorial ethnography of urban life in the bay area.
The days are rapidly getting shorter as summer starts to turn into autumn. One of the interesting things that happens in the summer at the Russian River is the erection of summer bridges and dams. With summer ending, and fewer people in the water, the dams are starting to come down. This picture is one … Continue reading
There is a small town, Graton, near my house at the Russian River that has a fire station that I pass sometimes on my occasional early morning drives into the city. It is quite haunting looking with the overall red glow and the fire engines dimly shining from behind the glass doors illuminated by the … Continue reading
Living in the Russian River area, you cannot help but feel dwarfed by the redwoods. They tower over both sides of the river valley where I live on the river. If you have never seen redwoods up close, you owe it to yourself to take a trip to the west cost and seem them. Where … Continue reading
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