Photographs, Photographers and Photography

The low stress way.
I doubt there’s a bird I don’t like. Even the turkey vultures which call this area home, with a face only a mother could love, once on the wing are a thing of beauty.
The other day on our daily ramble, Bert the Border Terrier and I observed a red tailed hawk […]

Accidental lighting.

Light pools. Lumix LX-1, 1/50, f/4.9, ISO 80
This building in San Francisco’s charming North Beach neighborhood is being patched up but all I could see were rays of light falling on the wall. Plus, of course, a touch of Bonnard in that strangely inclined table.

Pierre Bonnard. The dining room in the country, […]

Another neo-Hopper.

In North Beach, San Francisco. Lumix LX-1, 1/50, f/4.9, ISO 80
I actually had to use the LCD screen to frame this, as the lens was zoomed to maximum, invalidating my glued-on optical viewfinder.
A recurring theme for me is the loneliness of the big city, crowded as it may be. You have to love the […]

Scenes in San Francisco.
The master is everywhere to be seen.

Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Lumix LX-1,1/160, f/4, ISO 80

Columbus Avenue, San Francisco. Lumix LX-1,1/500, f/4.9, ISO 80

Stark and Simple.

5D, 20mm, 1/4000, f/5.6, ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom + ImageAlign
I am as attracted to afternoon sun as was my hero, Edward Hopper.

Plus a bit of messing with perspective.

5D, 20mm, ImageAlign
A poster look at a car made back in the days when drivers were fat and tires were slim, and real men died behind the wheel.

The sort of thing I can never resist.

Cockeyed. 5D, 20mm, 1/3000, f/8. ISO 250. Processed in Lightroom and PS CS2/Image Align
ImageAlign was used to correct the converging verticals, as this was taken looking up with a very wide lens on the camera. I’m hardly head-over-heels with the Canon 20mm, but having all […]