Martini Monday

In Santa Rosa, across the street from where I was getting my tire replaced yesterday afternoon...and the foremost thing on my mind was that big-ass Martini I was going to have as soon as I got home.

Alien Self-Portrait

Holes in the sidewalk cast spots of light on a spot below ground, captured in a shadow of my head while taking the picture. This might work for a Shadow Shot Sunday post, I'm thinking. I'll bet most of these fine people would agree.

Scissors and Comb

Update: because I'm lazy, that's why.

Shadow Shot Sunday: rules and results.

More from the Maker Faire

Per Donna's request, here are some more shots from the Maker Faire in San Mateo last weekend. To see the whole set, go here.

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Sign of the Times

Another one from our Blightwalk the other day.

Oregon Trailers

At Bay to Breakers a couple weeks ago.

Gold is a Good Conductor

From the Maker Faire at San Mateo County fairground this past weekend. Think arts and crafts/DIY meets Burning Man. Lots of robots, fire, Tesla coils, art cars and other eccentricities among the crocheting lessons and silk screening T-shirt booths. I'm just sorry we didn't get down there earlier in the day.

Colors

This is my new favorite shot of mine.

Reflecting on a Very Funny Bicycle

I took this shot of a couple enjoying a humorous moment while on the blightwalk with Tom and friends Saturday, and am very happy with how it turned out.

Sergei's Shot

Playing pool at the bar we all went to after Saturday's Blightwalk.

Shadow Shot Sunday: Dodge Dart Wagon at Station #3

Saw this classic beauty parked in late afternoon at the fire station across the street from my apartment building. Maybe it was there to make a quick getaway to Shadow Shot Sunday. I'll bet you could fit quite a few of these past participants in it when we do.

Shadow Shot Sunday

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge casts an early morning shadow on the Bay.

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She Loves the Camera

This is Michela, a young woman I've gotten to know through Flickr and the various photowalks I've been on in the past six or eight months, looking at my Yashica Mat-124. She started the Friday Night Drinking & Shooting Club, and is an enormously talented photographer. This was taken on our last Friday night adventure in the canyons of the Financial District.

She's also no slouch in the modeling department:

Concrete Stairway

Battery Godfrey on the Presidio.

Travel Thursday: Albany Bulb

A couple weeks back, I went to the East Bay to check out the Albany Bulb with my friend Larry, who lives in nearby Richmond. The Bulb is a wild area of landfill and overgrown bushes jutting out into the bay just north of Berkeley, strewn with broken pieces of concrete, metal and other detritus. There is a lot of graffiti and street art and sculpture there; also a fairly sizable population of homeless people. Here are just a few shots from that excursion. As is my wont, I took a few hundred pictures on our walk, and I'm still only about two-thirds of the way through processing them.

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What About Naomi?

Bubbles

Another shot from Bay to Breakers last Sunday.

Three Kings

Yeah, you guessed it: Bay to Breakers was yesterday. I'll post more shots over the next few weeks.

Shadow Shot Sunday In My Neighborhood: Touch Up

A mural artist adds the finishing touches to some wallflowers and creates a more ephemeral form of art by casting a distorted shadow over his work. He must know it's Shadow Shot Sunday. And I'll bet these fine folk do as well.

Apparitions

Back in the Shadow Shot Sunday saddle after two weeks of extremely limited computer access. Read all about Shadow Shot Sunday, and join in the fun.

Long Exposures

So I've been shooting a fair amount of long exposures lately -- like the Transbay Terminal rainbow, for instance -- and I thought I would post a few of them here. More after the jump.

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Travel Thursday: How Weird Street Faire, San Francisco

Stop! In the Name of Love.

You Are Beautiful

Wood Duck

At rest 200 feet away on a charcoal-sketch lake, this guy has heard my camera shutter and is about to make a surprise burst out of there. A very wild species. Large here.

Rainbow Bridge

I believe I've run a shot of this spot here before, but it couldn't have been as good as this one. Today this picture has been posted on both SFist and Eye on Blogs, and I have to admit, it's certainly become a favorite of mine very quickly. This is the bridge over 1st Street at the Transbay Terminal, and it's not going to be there much longer. The whole place is going to be torn down soon, so that a brand new, super-cool, way more better happy Transbay Terminal OF THE FUTURE!!!11!1!! can be built in its place. So do what I did: get down there late on a drunken Friday night with a tripod and the ability to take a long exposure.

Or just enjoy this shot for the time being.

Tall Ship

The Kaiwo Maru, docked at Pier 27 last week. It wasn't open to the public, unfortunately, but I could get close enough to get a couple shots like this.

Not Really a Martini Monday

Yes, it is Monday, but this is actually just a chilled vodka with olives. (Shhh, don't tell Tom!)

One is good, two are better.

Martini Monday

Hey, it's cocktail time in Halifax. This is a coupla Martinis before being poured into glasses.

Crow

Shadow Shot Sunday: The Light Beyond the Tunnel

A downtown alley goes from dark shadow to bright sunlight. You are now approaching the Shadow Shot Sunday zone. See what all these people had to say about last week's SSS...if you dare!

Parking

On the side of the (sadly defunct) Alexandria Theatre at Geay & 18th.

A Paler Shade of White

Travel Thursday: Fire Dancers in Moscow

Fire dancers on Arbat Street, monochrome version.