February 2024

AI for Art Photos

By |2024-02-01T03:57:15+00:00February 1st, 2024|Uncategorized|

AI in photography is just too useful to ignore. I mostly use it to remove objects that even Photoshop's Content Aware Fill can't handle. I almost never use it to add objects to photos. But … here's an exception. This is a gas station at the entrance to Niles, California, that the owner has redone [...]

November 2023

Meeting Merlin

By |2023-11-29T20:16:13+00:00November 29th, 2023|Uncategorized|

In October, I took a trip to Nevada City, California. Even though shooting fall color wasn't the reason for the trip, I thought I might find and photograph some there. So I got up before sunrise and went scouting. I didn't find much good fall color, but I did find, or rather, was found by, [...]

September 2023

Characters and Cars

By |2023-09-11T05:20:41+00:00September 11th, 2023|Uncategorized|

I drove up to Penngrove to shoot the Third Annual South of Heaven Filthies Humdinger Car Show. I had such good luck at the lowrider show in San Francisco, I figured I'd give this one a try. It was smaller, and in a park vs. on San Francisco city streets, but the vibe was similar. [...]

July 2023

Tribute to Peru at City Hall

By |2023-07-30T19:09:27+00:00July 30th, 2023|Uncategorized|

I was in San Francisco for an overnight this past Friday, and decided after dinner to walk down to City Hall. Civic Center, where City Hall is located, is not the best part of town, especially after dark. As I walked down Market St. after 9 p.m., surrounded by the creatures of the night, I [...]

Pride Five

By |2023-07-16T20:11:55+00:00July 16th, 2023|Uncategorized|

This year was my fifth time going to the Pride Parade in San Francisco. I feel the event has been getting more corporate and less authentic every year. Howevere, this year was a little better, in that there didn't seem to be as many corporate groups promoting themselves and more members of the LGBTQ community [...]

Chapel and Cloud

By |2023-07-04T21:58:39+00:00July 4th, 2023|Uncategorized|

I live about a ten-minute drive from St. Mary's College in Moraga, and I go there often late in the day to wander around the campus taking photos. I especially like to visit during the summer, when school's out, and there's almost no one there. Cloudy days are the best times for photography, because I [...]

May 2023

Two Weeks in Portugal

By |2023-05-13T19:05:40+00:00May 13th, 2023|Uncategorized|

We visited Tavira, Lisbon and Porto during our two weeks in Portugal in April. The people were friendly and helpful, and they all spoke English because they're required to study it in school. We talked with this goat-and-sheep herder in the hills above Tavira. He was selling his animals. I didn't buy any, because I [...]

Semana Santa in Spain

By |2023-05-06T15:33:51+00:00May 6th, 2023|Uncategorized|

I was in Seville, Spain for Holy Week (Semana Santa), April 2 through 8, along with a million other people. The photo challenge was to show the crowds, but also individuals and elements of the event. I shot mostly with a 28mm lens, which enabled me to include lots of environment. But I also had [...]

March 2023

One Good Image

By |2023-03-31T16:23:01+00:00March 31st, 2023|Uncategorized|

I take photos of my granddaughters when they're at my house on Thursdays. Many are not good, for various reasons. Some are mediocre, a few are valuable for documentary reasons, and, very occasionally, one is special. Like this portrait of Eva. I took it with my 28mm fixed-lens camera, when I was seated just [...]

February 2023

Snowy Mt. Diablo

By |2023-02-27T03:59:30+00:00February 27th, 2023|Uncategorized|

Snow fell last Thursday on Mt. Diablo in Contra Costa County—not an everyday occurrence. The day after, I hiked up a steep, muddy trail near my house to reach an overlook on the Lafayette Reservoir Rim Trail. These photos were taken with my monochrome camera. I used 35, 50 and 75mm prime lenses, all with [...]

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