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...
A torrent of images. We live in a world of exploding photographic documentation. Not only is it certain is that the number of photographs taken every year is growing, its growth rate is growing. Years ago, I remember reading that the average American is exposed to as many images in a day as his great-grandparents...
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...
The character of the live oak I wanted to welcome everyone back to the blog with a few new photographs and I thought, “What better way to start things off than by sharing two of my new most favorite images?” In summer, the hills of the San Francisco Bay peninsula roll in flaxen waves. In...
The rockiest limb of San Francisco. If you’ve ever wanted to visit a heavily populated spot on a weekend and be nearly alone, I recommend Superbowl Sunday. It so happened that me and mine are no fans of the two teams which happened to make it to the big game – so we headed for...
