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 rotunda quickly grabbed my attention while the(...)
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Post tags: architecture, city hall, dome, glass, modern, san jose, stars

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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(...)
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Post tags: Arco, boat, Cabo, Cabo San Lucas, El Arco, Lucas, Mexico, ocean, paradise, rock formation, San, sandstone, tropical, water taxi

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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.

PPGBA: 1st and 3rd place!

At last month’s PPGBA (Professional Photographers of the Greater Bay Area) meeting and awards night, we got the results of the year end print competition. I was surprised and extremely honored to (...)
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Post tags: award, bridge, high contrast, parking lot, parking ramp, PPA, print competition

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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 (...)
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Post tags: arizona, cactus league, friends, HDR, phoenix, road trip, roadtrip, scottsdale, sf giants, spring training, the guys

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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(...)
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Post tags: 7 sisters, anvilimage, architecture, cityscape, exposure fusion, HDR, long exposure, night photography, park, San Francisco, sf bay area, skyline, tree, victorian

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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 home when I realized that there was a full moon and I started thinking about(...)
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Post tags: fog, GGB, Golden Gate Bridge, long exposure, Marin Headlands, night photography, San Francisco

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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(...)
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Post tags: central california, central coast, hearst castle, landmark, san luis obispo, SLO

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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(...)
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Post tags: candid, Golden Gate Bridge, honeymoon, portrait, San Francisco, wedding

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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 (...)
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Post tags: architecture, church, HDR, stone, wedding

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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 me of (...)
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Post tags: architecture, HDR, San Francisco, skyline, texture

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