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One of the many reasons I love living in San Francisco is that it’s very dog friendly. For most it might seem that having three dogs (Moe, Curly and Zoe*) would be a bit much for city life, but it hasn’t turned out that way, in fact my neighbor has four. In any case, having a backyard, dog doors, and living near a dog park helps us get through the week. Our weekend activities most always revolve around th

Grizzly Gulch at the San Francisco zoo opened today (June 14th). Grizzly Gulch is home to Kachina & Kiona, two rescued Grizzly Bear cubs who narrowly avoided being euthanized in Montana. Kachina & Kiona’s MySpace page with their story During lunch today I decided to take a peek at Kachina & Kiona’s new home. The one acre exhibit is quite nice with a pond, waterfall and meadow for the bears

“A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.” — Ansel Adams “People only see what they are prepared to see.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson [tags]photography, photograph, Ansel Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson, quote[/tags]

This week I had the chance to read a very eloquently written and thought provoking post challenging the standard view on the “art of seeing”. Is Photography the Opposite of Seeing? by Guy Tal Guy’s thoughts really resonated with me because of recent posts I’ve made on the topic and because I found his approach/perspective to be very creative. Related post: The Power of Photography [tags]photog

24 hours to go… [tags]reflection, clock, time, puddle, sidewalk, Ferry Building, San Francisco[/tags]

I’m a bit reluctant to add “5 Most Common Digital Photography Mistakes” to the blog as it speaks to things that are for most common sense. Regardless it’s fair to say that most everyone has made these mistakes even if we’re too proud to admit it. So for the experienced photographers I apologize in advance if these mistakes bring back bad memories or spur flashbacks. For those new to phot

Catching up on listening to episodes of the Lens Work podcast this morning I was pleasantly surprised to find out about a thread at APUG discussing “What photographers inspire you“. The reason for my surprise… a few days before this episode of the podcast was released I had posted parallel thoughts in my blog post “You Are Here: Photographers of Influence“. Not that the topic is unique i

This morning a couple new features were made available to image sharing sites Flickr and Zooomr. While trying to get my morning fix of Flickr I mysteriously could not load the site. Frustrated I ended up checking in on Zooomr to find that “Discover” had been enhanced to find the latest and greatest by hour, the last day, the last week, the last month and the last year. I’m looking forward to checkin