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...
Conjunction Early Saturday morning along the beach next to Chrissy Field there was a positively massive gathering of photographers to capture the full lunar eclipse setting behind the south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. A friend and I were on hand to watch the show. It was a rare conjunction of the fully eclipsed...
Driftwood Violet hour, pre-dawn, Baker Beach, San Francisco. A simple idea, balance the bridge with a bit of driftwood found on the beach and wait for the perfect wave to glaze the sand. Great light doesn’t hurt, either.
The Challenge I recently posted about the decline of analog in the same week that I made a handful of 4×5 exposures and ran a roll of slide film through an oldie-but-goodie 35mm camera. Why use film when digital is so much more versatile, so much more of a pure medium? Precisely because it is...
