Welcome to the Hive – San Jose City Hall in HDR
I’d never seen San Jose City Hall in person before the night that I shot this image, but I was kind of weirded out and intrigued all at the same time. Being in the heart of Silicon Valley, I wasn’t exactly expecting traditional architecture (see San Francisco City Hall), but the glass dome of the [...]
El Arco de Cabo San Lucas
When I’m traveling (and most of the time when I’m not) my camera is always with me and I usually make it a point to shoot as much as I can. Luckily, hard drive space is (relatively) cheap, but
PPGBA Print Competition Update!
I’m super stoked to share this news with the world! In fact, I’ve been holding on to the first part of this for about a month and just haven’t had the time to sit down an hammer out an announcement.
At last month’s PPGBA (Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area) meeting and awards night, we [...]
Spring Training Road Trip
Today I leave on yet another epic road trip, this time to SF Giants spring training in Scottsdale, AZ. Leaving from the SF Bay Area under the cover of darkness, there wouldn’t seem to be many
San Francisco Seven Sisters – Girls Night on the Town
I could almost hear the 7 Sisters laughing at us as we visited them for a shoot. I ran up to San Francisco one night with Tom and Paul to shoot this row of Victorian houses that has graced magazine covers, postcards and the opening credits to
Escaping My Grasp – Golden Gate Shrouded in Fog
I’m still waiting for that elusive shot: the San Francisco Bay and Golden Gate Bridge completely covered in a thick blanket of fog with only the tops of the two towers peeking out. As many times as I’ve shot this bridge (many, many times!), the conditions have never been just right.
Last night I was at [...]
Vacation to Hearst Castle
I’d wanted to go to Hearst Castle ever since seeing it from Hwy 1 while passing by on a road trip. The scale of the place blew my mind as I
Azeneth and Willie – Honeymoon in San Francisco
I got the call from Azeneth letting me know that she and her husband, Willie, would be on their honeymoon in San Francisco and that she wanted to surprise her husband by hiring a photographer for portrait session as a wedding gift. Being from New York they didn’t know
PPGBA Print of the Month – July 2010
I’m totally blown away by the results of last Thursday nights print competition at PPGBA and I’m super honored to have done as well as I did. This hand-held HDR image scored
Entering the Concrete Jungle
Remember on a hot summer day you’d run through the sprinklers or maybe you had one of those toys that hooked up to the hose that was a fountain that had a bunch of hoses whipping about with water shooting out of the ends? The Vaillancourt Fountain at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco reminds [...]
Out to Pasture – Listen to Your Heart
I did a presentation on HDR a week ago for the folks at AMPP and one of the attendees, Michael Kendrick, and I were talking about how our passion for photography has
Hand-held HDR and SF Financial District
I’ve been hearing it from the so-called self proclaimed experts on internet forums that hand-held HDR is impossible or “you won’t get good results!” Just the mere mention of hand-holding
Crushdown in HDR at the Gate
Last month Todd from the local band Crushdown came to me saying that they needed some cool promo shots and asked if I could create
Hoover Dam at Night
I got back a few days ago from my annual road trip with the guys to spring training in Phoenix loaded with images taken along the way. In usual form, I was planning on holding off the images for one big post but….
Weathering the Storm
With all of the rain and clouds covering much of California lately, I was reminded of this image that I shot last June in Lake Tahoe.
Enjoying the Day’s End
Near the end of a relaxing afternoon wine tasting in the Temecula area, I was inspired to grab this image as I saw
Seeing Griffith at Night in HDR
While I sometimes get in just a bit over my head after a project snowballs bigger than I expected or sometimes I just procrastinate, this time it may be a mix of the two. I’ve got a lot going on photographically at the moment (sweet!) and I’m working hard to make sure that something new [...]
A California Christmas
While driving back from Auburn, CA, after a day of wine tasting with my girlfriend, the rain stopped coming down long enough to make a stop off at the state capitol in Sacramento. I’ve been to Sacramento plenty of times on the way to Tahoe or Folsom, but this was the first time that I [...]
Diwali 2009 – Shooting with Passion
While working as a freelance shooter for a local newspaper, I’ve had to shoot a lot of different subjects that I normally wouldn’t ever thought of capturing with my camera. Tanning beds at a spa? Nope, it’s not my first choice for my latest HDR effort. How about a dog walk-a-thon at the new facility [...]
St. John’s Cemetery
I was dumbfounded when Paul told me, but I couldn’t believe there was something cool right here in my old stomping grounds that I didn’t know about. He and I were planning to do a night shoot of a small graveyard that dated back to the Civil War located in Redwood City and Paul [...]
A Night at the Park
Honest! I didn’t know that the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco was closed to the public past 10pm… But the security guard was really cool about it. Instead of outright kicking us to the curb, he politely asked us to finish up our shots and head out. Seriously!
When I’m wandering through the city late [...]
Skully the Protector
Many of the guys (and gals) riding motards on the roads of the Santa Cruz Mountains, especially around Alice’s, will recognize this skull that has been carved into a rock on the side of the road. Did I say road? At only one lane wide in most parts, it’s more like a goat trail winding [...]
Legion of HDR
With a short burst of “bad weather” here in Northern California lately, we’ve all gotten the feeling that the extended Indian summer, that is characteristic of our area, is coming to a close. Trying to make the best of it and squeeze out that very last drop of great weather, I’ve been shooting as much [...]
Redwood City PAL Award Night
Last Wednesday I got a call on short notice asking if I was free to shoot at an event the next night. Luckily, I’ve got a pretty flexible schedule and told them that I could be there for the Redwood City Police Athletic League’s 2009 awards night. It was great event with a mixture of [...]
