Liz’s Scarf

{35mm; 1/30s; F5; ISO800; 12/28/08: Liz sitting in a hand chair. The lighting from the big windows really lit up her eyes. That scarf is crazy.}

Rodin’s the Thinker

{32mm; 1/60s; F4.5; ISO200; 12/28/08: Rodin’s the Thinker outside of The Legion of Honor in San Francisco’s Presidio. }

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Lichen on a Rock in Marin

{55mm; 1/60s; F5.6; ISO100; 12/25/08: Lichen on a rock on the Christmas Day hike. Was good to work off some food. The sun was about to set so I got some nice golden hour shots.}

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A Framed Gate

{55mm; 1/100s; F10; ISO100; 12/27/08: Golden Gate Bride tower being framed by the hills in the Marin Headlands.}

Atop Liz’s Hill

{18mm; 1/200s; F8.0; ISO400; 12/25/2008: Christmas hike to the top of Liz’s Hill. It was cool because I got to play with some new electronics toys. I like the way there is both light and dark in this landscape.}

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Pull the Hook

{33mm; 1/30s; F5.0; ISO400; 12/23/08: Color on black and white. Fire alarm box near Divisadero and Haight St.}

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San Francisco Panorama

{50mm; 1/2500s; F8; ISO800; 12/13/08: I wish I had turned down the ISO, ahh, whatever. It is a stitching of four images. Nice clouds after the rain.}

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Paper Electric Lantern

{50mm; 1/400s; F1.4: ISO1600; 12/12/08: Electric lights in the back of Wild Side West, our favorite local bar.}

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Log on Fire

{50mm; 1/125s; F1.4; ISO800; 12/14/08: A log in Matt’s fireplace.}

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Parked Cars on Nevada

{50mm; 1/15s; F1.4; ISO1600; 12/13/08: With any other lens, this shot would be inaccessible. As it was, I had to do some digital massaging to get it to come out with this much light. The small depth of field makes everything kind of fuzzy so it doesn’t show up too bad in the full picture.}

Garfield Park Mural – Sea Monster and Rainbow Goddess

{50mm; 1/1600; F4.5; ISO100; 12/11/08: This is the mural on the  local cheap pool near my house in Garfield Park.  I took this picture while on my bike ride to the 4th St. train station. The sun was still low in the sky so it cast nice shadows and really got the colors to pop.}

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Apple

{50mm; 1/50s; F1.4; ISO400; 12/10/08: Color on black and white. Just an apple I was eating.}

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Arturo

{50mm; 1/250s; F1.4; ISO800: 12/10/08: Arturo is a friend of my roommate Olga. Used the light to cast shadows and make the background dark.}

Waiting for the Train

{50mm; 1/60s; F1.4; ISO800; 12/10/08: Train is out of focus due to narrow depth of field and is also moving.}

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Adonis – Portrait of a Cat

{50mm; 1/30s; F1.4; ISO800; 12/9/08: One of the first pictures with my new lens, the rug made a really nice background color, and I just love those whiskers.}

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San Francisco Light Smear

{50mm; ~20s; F9; ISO100; 12/13/08: I was taking another HDR image of SF as a storm was blowing by and it actually blew over my tripod. Luckily I was there to catch it.}

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SF - Civic Center in Blue

{60mm; 30s; F9.0; ISO100; 11/15/08: Missed a post, so this is a back posting. City at night, you can see Ceasar Chavez to the Civic Center. They had it in blue all night.}

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Train Tunnel- Creepy

{50mm; 1/30s; F1.4; ISO800; 12/11/08: Color on black and white. Took this on the Caltrain headed north after work. There are two tunnels before my stop, and luckily, the train has lights! The effect is done by panning the camera while shooting at the same speed as the train, that way only one spot is in focus.}

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Spiky Spiral

{54mm; 1/60s; F4.5; ISO 800; 11/29/08: Spiky bamboo like plant. You can see where the spikes come away from the shoot. SF Botanical Gardens.}

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Slug Kisser

{18mm; 1/60s; F3.5; ISO1600; 11/28/08- Liz’s B-day: Gabrielle (Liz’s sister) kissed the banana slug claiming a numbing agent was in its slime. Much to her surprise, she only received a pleasant sheen on her lips.}

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Adonis – God of Virgins

 

{35mm; 9s; F6.3; ISO 200; 12/6/08: Adonis’ fuzzy butt in the glass of the door separating our house.}

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The SUV Stops

{28.0mm; 52s; F13; ISO 100; 12/7/08: Out my window, SUV slowed, stopped and then went on. Dude across the street has a red lighted everwhite tree…}

Spikes and Succulence

{50mm; 1/30s; F4.5; ISO 800: Some weird tree-cactus-succulent thing at the Botanical Gardens}

Oyster Mushrooms

{45mm; 1/30s; F4.5; ISO 1600; Another low light close-up. Cannot wait for my 50mm, F1.4 to show up tomorrow!} 

Ray Swaney

{18mm; 0.8s; F3.5; ISO 1600: I'm amazed this isn't more blurry at 0.8s- nice AF Tamron...Taken inside of a redwood tree using a little slit of light. Ray is an artist friend of mine.}

Woodland Mushroom

{42mm; 1/30; F4.0; ISO 1600: During Liz’s Bday hike.}

Gravy

 

{18mm; 1/40s; F3.5; ISO 1600: Taken during Thanksgiving while Matt was stirring the gravy. Color on bw grapefruit.}

Bike Spokes and Ghost People

{18mm; 12s; F22; ISO 100: Another train station picture. What can I say, it’s part of my life. Probably about 30 or so people walked by during this picture.}

Golden Gate in the Morning

{25mm; 1/1000s; F8; ISO 400: HDR image using one single image. Going across the Golden Gate in the morning on Thanksgiving.}

Tree Blood

{70mm; 1/50s; F6.3; ISO 800- Color on Black and white of tree sap on the end of a cut redwood at Samuel P. Taylor State Park in Marin- Liz’s B-day Hike.}

Train Sheet

{28mm; 19s; ISO 100: Another evening at the train station picture, from the ground using the lens hood as a lift.}

Evening Traffic

{100mm; F22; 12s: From Bernal at Night}

Four Flamingos

{200mm; F6.3; ISO200: SF Zoo- Sleepy Chilling Pink Birds

A Taste of Fall

{200mm; F6.0; ISO400; Mills College using a polarizer to kill the glare.}

Lioness

{1/40 shutter; F6.3; ISO1600 - SF Zoo - She was totally posing for the visitors.}

She Knows

{Mountain View Caltrain Station - ~15s shutter; F22; ISO 100 - waiting for 5:58pm Express to SF}