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This time of year I really cherish the fog here in San Francisco and am always looking for interesting photo opportunities. One of my favorite subjects to photograph is the coastal fog as it envelops the trees. If I’m not photographing this phenomenon I’m often telling my wife how I love the look of the fog in the trees as we go on our walks together. This has become a running joke between us as I say it

Thanks everyone for entering the Collagewall.com Giveaway. Everyone Wins with 15% Off Through January 15th I’m happy to report that the generous folks at Collagewall.com have extended a 15% discount to all JMG Blog readers through January 15th, 2011. On check out just enter the code “JMG” (san quotation marks) to trim 15% off your order or click on the following link to login to Collagewall.com and

As has become a tradition on the JMG-Galleries blog I’d like to invite you to take part in the 4th annual best photos of the year blog project. This is by far my most popular blog project. Year over year this project has continued to see a 30% increase in participation with last years participation hitting 124 participants (see Best Photos of 2009, Best Photos of 2008 and Best Photos of 2007). In fact its prove

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.  ~Andrew Wyeth [tags]Yosemite,  nature, fine art[/tags]

Last week I stumbled across a local service here in San Francisco that offers a very cool photo product that allows you to quickly make a custom photo collage wall display. Fittingly the service is named Collagewall. To give you an idea of what they do see their website at Collagewall.com and the Collagewall Flickr photostream. The holidays are around the corner and the kind folks at Collagewall have made available a

You can take a nature photographer out of nature, but you can’t take nature ouf of a nature photographer. While exploring and photographing New York City last year I found some great subjects for travel stock, but I was most excited about photographing a simple nature scene lost to most rushing by on their “leisure” filled Saturday morning in Central Park. While many New Yorkers were squeezing in th

This past Tuesday November 30th my dog Moe passed on. 2010 has been an incredibly brutal year as we’ve lost 3 dogs in 6 months (see Tribute to Curly and Tribute to Zoe). While I’d like to think I was prepared for Moe’s passing, given his age of 14 and the events surrounding the loss of Curly and Zoe, this proved to be anything but the case. Losing Moe has in many ways been a tougher ordeal to work t

If you’re in the mood for a laugh then I highly recommend watching this comedic over-dub to some great BBC wildlife footage. It’s short, funny and I dare you to watch it just once. I’ve been watching this video as of late to lift my spirits, for reasons I’ll explain in another post.

This week I concluded a very personal project, undertaken for my 92 year old grandfather Mac, to scan photos with in 12 cherished family photo albums.  Amazingly some of the photos scanned date back to the early 1900’s. When I first took on this task it seemed to be straight forward… scan a large quantity of images at high resolution for archival purposes and distribute them to family on hard drives. What