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There’s this great Art Deco doorway along San Francisco’s Sansome Street. One of the “stages of San Francisco”!
In the right light – at the best time of year – with a great subject passing through – it’s pretty magical.
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This is one of my series of shots captured at San Francisco’s Ferry Building in March 2015.
I’ve previously processed one of these images – showing the worker climbing up the ladder.
This image shows the worker starting to step down off the ladder. I like them both – great memories of a beautiful morning at the Ferry Building!
Ernest Hemingway said: “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down to a typewriter and bleed.”
It’s the same with photography – it’s nothing.
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While I was in New York last June participating in a street photography workshop led by Peter Turnley, a couple of us wandered by New York City’s Grand Central Station. It’s a beautiful place of architectural wonder – and we were lucky to be there on a day when the sunlight was beaming down brightly onto a tiny portion of the floor.
This wedding couple was posing for their wedding pictures – and, of course, we also joined in taking our own shots as they were chatting in between shots.
I love the light in this image – it epitomizes Jay Maisel’s manta – Light, Gesture, Color!
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As the year is winding down, I’ve been looking back through the 14,000+ images I’ve taken this year – and culling through them to look for new possibilities. This image is a “multiple” – in this case two separate images have been merged together to create a single image.
I was sitting inside the Ferry Building in San Francisco – waiting for the 9:50 Larkspur ferry to arrive with my friend Doug Kaye. At certain times of year, like March!, the light is coming from the side at this hour – making for wonderful light and shadow combinations. In this image, the guy with the cart and the guy on the far right were both captured on one image – while the woman walking was from a second image. Both images were captured with my iPhone 6.
I had an early morning breakfast meeting this morning in San Francisco. I parked at the Union Square garage and came upstairs to some beautiful morning light.
I capture three images with my iPhone 6s – the one above and the two below. They couldn’t be more different. Enjoy!
A few days ago the Wall St. Journal ran this story “Kolkata, India: An Insider’s Tour for Aspiring Photographers” – which brought back memories of my two visits to this city in West Bengal. The author notes “Yes, Kolkata can be overwhelming. Perhaps it really is the deep end of the pool. But once you jump in, the water’s fine.”
My most recent trip was in January of this year – and this image was one shot from my iPhone while driving through the city on my way to a walking tour. More images from my visit to Kolkata are here in my Flickr album.
For the last few years, I’ve done an annual photography portfolio book for friends and family. In prior years, the range of my work was quite varied – as my photography interest evolved from landscape to street photography.
This year I took a different approach to just share the last year of my photography mostly shot with Doug Kaye on the streets of San Francisco.
Here are the images from this year’s book – San Francisco Streets 2015 – hope you enjoy!
We recently spent a long weekend on the Big Island of Hawaii. Not exactly the place for great street photography!
But, on our way to dinner at Brown’s Beach House at the Fairmont Orchid I happened to notice this “street shot” – and captured it with my iPhone 6s. Does it qualify as street photography? No, of course not – there’s no street as such! But it captures a typical street photography scene – and that’s good enough for me!
By the way, today’s the 14th anniversary of my blog – with the first post here on November 25, 2001.
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