Saturday, February 28

Litter Me


{50mm; 1/640s; F1.4; ISO100; 02/21/09: Color on black and white. Taken on the front of a school.}

Friday, February 27

Ice Cream

{50mm; 1/500s; F2.0l ISO200; 02/23/09: Pointalism Mural, black lady in front of the ice cream cart.}

Thursday, February 26

Everywhere Signs


{50mm; 1/200s; F2.8; ISO200; 02/25/09: Color on black and white. Some boarded up building plastered with signs. Thought the gate adds to it...}

Wednesday, February 25

Anemone in a Museum


{50mm; 1/50s; F2.8; ISO800; 01/02/09: Academy of Sciences. I big head of sea anemones. All of these aquarium pictures were very difficult to get in focus because of the glass.}

Tuesday, February 24

Pointalism in a Mural


{50mm; 1/640s; F2.0; ISO200; 02/23/09: Taken somewhere in the Mission Dist. I will have some close ups of the dots coming sometime in the next week.}

Monday, February 23

Jelly Fish


{50mm; 1/250s; F1.4; ISO800; 01/02/09: Color on black and white. Academy of Sciences. A bit grainer than I'd like, but this was a curved tank, and it was very difficult to focus clearly.} 

Sunday, February 22

Poison Dart Frog


{50mm; 1/800s; F1.4; ISO200; 01/02/09: Color on black and white. Poison dart frog in the Academy of Sciences.}

Saturday, February 21

Mural Painting in the MOMA


{50mm; 1/60s; F1.8; ISO400; 02/15/09: These folks were up on scafolding painting the new mural in the entrance of the SF Modern Museum of Art. Sorry I missed Saturday's post, was having too much fun.}
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Friday, February 20

Woman in Yellow Heels


{50mm; 1/40s; F1.4; ISO800; 02/15/09: This rather tall woman was wearing these crazy heels in the SFMOMA towering over peoples.}
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Thursday, February 19

Muslim Woman in Airport


{50mm; 1/50s; F1.4; ISO800; 02/14/09: Taken while waiting for my heart's true love- Nick.}
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Wednesday, February 18

Black Poodles in Worship


{50mm; 1/50s; F1.4; ISO800; 02/15/09: Taken at the Moma. Some weird piece of art with concentric rings of black poodles with a white baby in the middle on a compass on the floor-wtf?}
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Tuesday, February 17

Miniature


{50mm; 1/50s; F8; ISO400; 02/14/09: Taken at the Antique Book Faire in SF. Small cardboard cutout model.}
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Monday, February 16

Artificial Human Eyes- ca.1890 only $6,500


{50mm; 1/200s; F1.4; ISO400; 02/14/09: Antique Book Faire in San Francisco. There was a very large and significant amount of interesting old books, and odd bits like this collection. Wish the text was crisper, but that 1.4 is just crazy narrow.}
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Sunday, February 15

Crooked Fire Alarm


{50mm; 1/60s; F1.8; ISO100; 02/14/09: Taken in the airport on my way to picking up Nick Panza.}
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Saturday, February 14

Stanford Theater


{50mm; 1/100s; F3.5; ISO200; 02/07/09: Movie theater in Palo Alto.}
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Friday, February 13

Office Window


{50mm; 1/320s; F1.4; 02/10/09: Shot through the horizontal blinds from below. The amount of light getting through the slits varies from top to bottom due to the angle of the blinds. I also used a polarizer to grab the blue sky.}
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Thursday, February 12

Water Tower on Alma


{50mm; 1/400s; F2.2; ISO200; 02/07/09: Taken outside of Jason and Jenny's apartment in Palo Alto. I wish I would have turned up the f-stop so that the branch in the fore was a bit sharper. }
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Wednesday, February 11

Walkway Over the River


{50mm; 13s; F22; ISO100; 01/24/09: Taken with it stopped down as far as the camera will go. I think the river blur creates a nice contrast with the crispy walkway.}
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Tuesday, February 10

Sitting on a Wall


{50mm; 1/125s; F7.1; ISO100; 02/08/09: Another piece of sidewalk art. The color version of this just looked weird.}
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Monday, February 9

24th and Mission Mural


{50mm; 1/80s; F2.0; 02/06/09: This mural on the corner of 24th and Mission is very colorful, and at night they shine lights down on it from the top of the building casting very long texture shadows.}
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Sunday, February 8

Through a Magnifying Glass 2


{50mm; 1/30s; F1.4; 01/29/09: Taken through the same glass as before, this time Olga and Arturo were playing on the drums.}
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Saturday, February 7

Anne Has Two Colored Eyes


{50mm; 1/50s; F2.8; ISO 400; 01/24/09: Color on black and white. Anne has had that hat since she was seven years old!}
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Friday, February 6

My Shadow


{50mm; 1/2000s; F2.0; ISO100; 01/18/09: Taken while the sun was low on the horizon while on top of Bernal. The shadow is in black and white.} 
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Thursday, February 5

BART Wall - Powell Station


{50mm; 1/500s; F1.4; ISO800; 01/01/09: Most of the transit stations in the bay area have various types of wall art. The BART stations have this utilitarian type of geometric art.}

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Wednesday, February 4

Through a Magnifying Glass 1

{50mm; 1/30s; F2.5; ISO400; 01/29/09: Color on black and white. Took a picture through the magnifying glass on my soldering station helper. }

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Tuesday, February 3

Newt aka Dinosaur

{50mm; 1/250s; F1.4; ISO400; 01/24/09: This was one of the smallest newts we saw. The newts were on the move this weekend, we probably saw close to 100 of them in three days. }

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Monday, February 2

Jumping on a Log

{50mm; 8s; F16; ISO100; 01/24/09: Anne was jumping up and down on a log, and it made for nice motion blur. Love the contrast with the leaves.}

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Sunday, February 1

Tire Swing in the Woods

{50mm; 1/100s; F1.8; ISO400; 01/24/09: We found this tire swing in the woods and played on it a bit.}