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Photographing fall color in the eastern Sierra’s has never been my highest priority. In past years I’ve driven right past stands of colorful Aspen on my way to other destination with out looking twice. The past couple of days I decided to try my luck photographing this years fall color. Due to an early snow storm last week the season has been cut short with only a few stands of trees showing color like mo

One of my favorite views of Coit Tower here in San Francisco. I rediscovered this shot after reviewing some older photos recently. Previously I posted an alternate version of this titled “Coit Tower Moonrise“. I’m not sure which I like better. What’s your take do you have any preference? [tags]Coit Tower, San Francisco, photo, photography, Telegraph Hill, landmark, moon, moonrise[/tags]

San Francisco summers are known for their fog, but when things clear the view is unrivaled. San Francisco has some amazing landscape and seascapes to take in. The overall terrain of the region is dramatic unto itself, but combined with the variety of weather every day is unique. As warm weather settles into the area, as it has this week, sunsets become quite dramatic. For this particular photo I set up on the norther

Last night was a beautiful evening here in San Francisco. The sunset was amazing. Driving home I could not pass up photographing the skyline of the city, particularly this view of Pacific Heights, with the amazing lighting that was painting the landscape. [tags]Pacific Heights, San Francisco, landscape, cityscape, skyline, sunset, dusk, stock, photo[/tags]

Earlier in the month I decided it would be a good idea to wake up early to catch the sunrise over San Francisco. I thought it would be fun to take my wife and show her my favorite lookout. She was a little reluctant when I told her about it as we’d have to wake up at 5AM, drive to the trailhead and then start hiking at 5:30AM in the dark. With a little coaxing she decided to join me and for fun we took along ou

One of the more interesting things I encountered when first starting out with landscape photography, back in the days of film, was staunch resistance by many photographers to take double exposure photographs. These photographers felt that a photograph should represent the scene as the eye saw it with no manipulation. This type of attitude instantly put photographers in one of two camps, pro-double exposure or anti-do

Back in July I revisited the Sutro Baths area in the outer Richmond district area of San Francisco (see Sutro Baths Sunset). This particular photo was one of the first taken once I stepped out of my car. It just goes to show you don’t have to go very far in San Francisco to find an amazing scenic view. I should note the highlight of the outing was returning to my car a few hours later to find only one car in th

Every so often I enjoy visiting the ruins of Sutro Baths here in San Francisco. It’s a fascinating place with an even more interesting history. Unlike other areas of San Francisco I don’t see many photographs of this area and until now it’s been a bit of my secret haunting ground. Below is a photograph I took a couple years ago at sunset. When I first put this photo out for feedback I didn’t g