i recently went on a photowalk with our flickr posse, the blow-up gang. we all met in north beach and loaded our cameras up with kodachrome, a legendary film whose unique processing will cease at the end of the year. this is david teter, trying to get a higher vantage point on an already high Continue reading →
this is jose marco, a local photographer friend who attended the grain over noise show at space gallery. it was my 3rd time using the “party camera” and I think I have it pretty much down now, thanks to some tips from a flickr contact. basically, i flipped the sunpak 444d to auto mode. it Continue reading →
it’s nice to use cameras i haven’t touched in a while. i’ve been carrying around the rolleicord for a while now, outfitted with a thin domke camera strap. it’s a little difficult to get sharp focus on it, since there is no split screen and the view is a bit dark. regardless, it is fun Continue reading →
This is one of my photographer friends, Yve Fontilea. She’s an easy bay based professional photographer. She and I agreed to do a mutual portrait session. We met last weekend at the Alameda Naval Base, which has an endless supply of interesting backdrops for pictures. A cute downtown area, barren huge parking lots, abandoned and Continue reading →
in san francisco, pink saturday is the day before the annual gay pride parade. the parade itself is a spectacle in itself, with an estimated 1.2 million attendees. the night before the parade, however, is when the craziness happens. a large swath of castro street and market street are blocked off. the area becomes a multi-stage Continue reading →
this is brad evans, talented street portrait shooter. last weekend a group i’m in on flickr held a bar-b-que in golden gate park. i brought my burke&james camera and holders loaded with 320TXP. i shot portraits of some of the group using the gundlach rapid rectigraphic. these are contact printed onto ilford mgd.1m paper with Continue reading →
met this canadian guy named ryan last wekeend at a picnic. he seems really nice. this morning i caught myself thinking, what am i doing? what are my intentions? it just all seems so natural.. maybe that’s not the kind of think you should question? and tonight we’re having dinner together. it sounds like a Continue reading →
dad would be 62 today. although it is easily searchable in my blog, i like to let pass the memory of his last few days and replace it instead with the day he was born, december 9th. people have the most potential on the day they were born. i like this entry from wikipedia: The Continue reading →