Archive for the ‘California’ Category
Esalen Goat Series – 11/18/10
December 19, 2010Cody Ross
November 3, 2010
Sanchez, Ramirez, Buster Posse
The crowd chanted for Uribe.
Then Lincecum went by.
He is so San Francisco.
Miles Vonmises
April 27, 2010
From our son’s email:
Miles had good innings. He always managed the most comfortable chair
in the room, and then convinced you to move it closer to the fire.
In his 87 dog years, Miles successfully peed on every other tree in
four area codes.
Miles was a good boy, and a dear friend. He will be missed.
In the meantime, however, he’d like us all to go outside for a walk!
Woof!
Filoli
April 20, 2010
Sunday I tried out my new canon G 11 in the gardens of Filoli an estate in the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Mr and Mrs. William Bowers Bourn Ⅱ created the name Filoli. The word comes from his credo: “Fight for a just cause; Love your fellow man; Live a good life.” I like that.
Oil Paint
April 1, 2010
So this is what I do. I paint. I just took two years off to make photographs. I went into the studio to give it a spring cleaning and part of the ceiling fell down. Cracks from years of water damage had loosened the plaster to the point that the one inch thick plaster ceiling had started to come down. With a little investigation we found netting that held the original plaster had been cut – nothing to hold the old thick plaster. Now I have a dusty studio with a new sheetrock and paint job. It looks like I have no excuse now. Gotta get in the studio and do something.
Public Wall at Valencia and 23rd
February 13, 2010
Black Boots Ink Workshop in San Francisco
January 27, 2010
What did I learn? There is a really nice group of photographers out there. Don’t cut off body limbs. Think – what do I want to say? I must make the images my own. Be authentic to yourself. Photograph the reaction not the action. Think in metaphors. If I see a place that says to me I need to make a picture. Stay there, sit and wait. And the computer – Copy all raw into DNG when exporting from my camera. It’s not going to rain today. We’ll be at the wall on Valencia and 23rd putting up our images of San Francisco. These images are for the People.
Wandering in the Company of Strangers – Black Boots Ink
January 20, 2010
This coming weekend I’ll be working with two great photographers, Emilio Banuelos and Ibarionex Parello. Together along with other photographers we will work in collaboration with each other to capture the people and the culture of one of the neighborhoods in San Francisco. Later, workshops will also be conducted in Guadalajara and Los Angeles. The resulting photographs will be exhibited in galleries in each of these cities, and also in public spaces in these communities. I sat in Starbucks today and practiced taking shots with my second camera, a new G11 Canon. I’m going to be a babe in the woods with this group.
High Key Photographs
January 16, 2010
Photos that are high key have a very beautiful look, in which there’s very low contrast with light tones and soft colors – in other words, a scene that’s mostly white/bright. This definition is cut and paste straight out of betterphoto.com! Bright fog came right up to the window. Sun from another window fell on the tulips.
Snow Fall
January 10, 2010
With the help of nature’s fog and a free 15 day trial from Nik Software, Inc. – Silver Efex Pro I came up with this image. My model was a flat rusted sculpture of a man.
