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A sunset view of waves crashing along the coast here in San Francisco. The lighting was quite nice on this particular evening and the back-lighting on the waves caught my interest. Although not the jaw dropping image that my Mavericks surf photos might elicit, I still think this is as equally an interesting subject. Sometimes the simplest things we look past make the most interesting nature photos. [tags]San Francisc

Over the past week a catchy video has been circulating the web titled “Here Comes Another Bubble” (Note: this link is dead as of 12/11/07). The video has music created by the Richter Scales sung to Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”. The video itself is comprised solely of photos of a variety of technology icons who have started Web 2.0 companies that many think are way over p

The 12th and 13th episode of EXIF and Beyond has been released. These episodes feature an interview with Ken Light, the famous social documentary photographer and professor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. Whether you’re interested in pure photojournalism, street, portrait, event and even nature or landscape photography this interview is one you’ll not want to miss. Discussed in Part I of the int

November marked the 1 year anniversary of EXIF and Beyond. To commemorate the occasion a short “State of the Podcast” was put together to say, “Thanks!” Download the latest episode: State of the Podcast For the non-iTune listeners a streaming version of this podcast can be accessed here. Thank you for listening. Please feel free to leave comments and feedback. [tags]EXIF and Beyond, podcast, photography, stat

The beautiful thing about California is that there are so many amazing places to take in and photograph sunrise. I’m impartial to nature and landscape subjects such as Yosemite National Park, but even catching sunrise over downtown Los Angeles can be dramatic. I couldn’t decide which sunrise photo to post, so I posted both. Here’s to a beautiful sunrise near you. Yosemite Valley Sunrise View More Ph

Today the Mavericks Surf contest official waiting period begins. At any point between today, December 7th 2007, and March 31st 2008 the contest can be called. Once the contest is called invited surfers and surfing fans have 24 hours to travel from where ever they are worldwide to the event. This past Tuesday waves reached nearly 70 feet at Mavericks. With great surf so early in the season lets hope the contest happen

I was a hold out when it came to digital photography. I love shooting wide so the prevalence of magnification factors was very unappealing. When I could afford a digital SLR that enabled me to get into the realm of 20mm equivalent, even if not enabled with a full frame sensor, I broke from my film camera. That was in 2004 and since that time I’ve shot less than a dozen rolls of slide film versus tens of thousan

It’s been interesting to see how people are operating in relation to Copyright versus Creative Commons. Brian Auer ran a counter point article to my Creative Commons: A Great Concept, I’ll Never Employ article and received 500+ Diggs to my 10 Diggs. Yet according to my poll (see below) the vast majority (68%) of respondents are leveraging a straight “All Rights Reserved” license. Brian also ran an

This weekend I was back in Los Angeles visiting family and couldn’t help myself in going out to photograph some areas I’ve long been meaning to. Being a little rushed before flying out I forgot to bring freshly charged batteries for my camera. The result was a weekend of shooting on a batteries 1/3rd fully charged and another 1/8th fully charged. Yes, I’m embarrassed to say I fell prey to a variatio