This week Photoshelter’s Photography 2.0 came to San Francisco as part of their City Tour campaign. With the momentum of four previous events, an all-star collection of participating speakers, a well orchestrated video log of previous speakers & panels on the Photoshelter blog and a variety photographers blogging about the event the attendees were primed and ready to experience everything Photoshelter. Thre

San Francisco summers are known for their fog, but when things clear the view is unrivaled. San Francisco has some amazing landscape and seascapes to take in. The overall terrain of the region is dramatic unto itself, but combined with the variety of weather every day is unique. As warm weather settles into the area, as it has this week, sunsets become quite dramatic. For this particular photo I set up on the norther

Last night was a beautiful evening here in San Francisco. The sunset was amazing. Driving home I could not pass up photographing the skyline of the city, particularly this view of Pacific Heights, with the amazing lighting that was painting the landscape. [tags]Pacific Heights, San Francisco, landscape, cityscape, skyline, sunset, dusk, stock, photo[/tags]

One day while driving home I noticed someone rocking out in their car to a song on the radio. This got me thinking about the different ways people react to art that they connect to on a deeper level. Most of us, whether we’d like to admit it or not, at some point in our lives have “rocked out” to a song we really liked. Yet a similar reaction to a photograph would have those around you thinking you&

Serendipitously I happened to view the Photoshelter blog seconds after various videos of presentations at Photography 2.0 NY were added. I only got a chance to watch Chase Jarvis Turning Frowns Upside Down, but will be back to watch the others. Chase’s presentation was great. I highly recommend viewing it. On the note of Chase… I’ve recently been reading Chase Jarvis’ blog and have found it re

Earlier in the month I decided it would be a good idea to wake up early to catch the sunrise over San Francisco. I thought it would be fun to take my wife and show her my favorite lookout. She was a little reluctant when I told her about it as we’d have to wake up at 5AM, drive to the trailhead and then start hiking at 5:30AM in the dark. With a little coaxing she decided to join me and for fun we took along ou

Brian Auer has challenged some of his blog readers to edit one of his photos and the blog project was aptly titled “Edit My Photo“. I thought this was interesting enough that I’d throw my hat in the ring with my very own post-processing interpretation of his image. Below is an animated GIF of his image and my adjustments. Note: If you want to see the animated GIF repeat refresh the page to get it go

One of the more interesting things I encountered when first starting out with landscape photography, back in the days of film, was staunch resistance by many photographers to take double exposure photographs. These photographers felt that a photograph should represent the scene as the eye saw it with no manipulation. This type of attitude instantly put photographers in one of two camps, pro-double exposure or anti-do