Monthly Archives: May 2012

Atmospheric

An icon, buried in the marine layer. I dearly love to photograph, but as an amateur, I find my opportunities to focus on making images have to tessellate into the open spaces left in the normal course of life. Perhaps as a consequence, I’ve learned to love making a game of finding the remarkable features...

The Golden Gate Bridge from Marshall Beach

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The heart of the matter.

A San Francisco icon stripped to its core. I collected these photographs while spending a few hours with Brian Matiash and Nicole Young along Marshall Beach.. What lies at the heart of a successful photograph? Is it resolution, color, detail, noise, subject, motion? I think about this question a lot and the answer to which...

Golden Gate from Marshall Beach

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Romancing the stone.

Stone and light. The former home of the Chicago Theological Seminary, now home to the Milton Friedman Institute, is a favorite building of mine.Here are a few posts with some more images from this Gothic marvel.. Last November, I returned to the city of broad shoulders to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with my family. Having...

The Chicago Theological Seminary Building - The Milton Friedman Institute // Romancing the Stone

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The Nikon D800 – First Impressions

Stanford Memorial Church at 36.3 megapixels The Stanford Memorial Church was the location of the very first image I published on this blog! For a look at the outside of the church under an eclipsed solstice moon, click here.. By this point, the internet is fairly full of Nikon D800 reviews. Photographers from around the...

The Stanford Memorial Church - First Impressions of the Nikon D800

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Perigee-syzygy – Supermoon, May 5, 2012

Luna and the pincushion skyline of San Francisco A set of photographs from a rare conjunction of a setting, fully eclipsed moon and the Golden Gate can be found here. The wikipedia entry describing the “supermoon” phenomenon is here. Saturday, May 5th marked the perigee-syzygy of the Earth, Moon and Sun. The sun set over...

Marin and the Super Moon, May 5th, 2012

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