A Couple of Contre Jour Shots

Lumix LF1

I too these last September, just now got to processing them.

Haight Ashbury Street Scene:

Golden Gate Park, Late Afternoon

Three Swans

Lumix G5, Lumix 100-300mm

See Evans Paint with his Hands

One of my favorite artists I met at Art Basel 2015

Cory Evans Paints all his masterpieces with his hands.

A raw look at the talent I wish I possessed. I have a new appreciation for artists from every walk of life. No matter the age. Creation through ones mind is becoming a life magnet for me.  As I walk further down the path of learning light, color compliments & composition I have completely fallen into the rabbit hole.

Story teller in training,

Carl

Misty Passage

Lumix LF1

This was seen last Saturday at Pacifica Beach.

--Warren

China Clipper Hangar Sign

HTC One X

Added my bike to show the size of the place. :)

Bike in B&W

HTC One X

Sometimes, I'm just in the mood for a black & white picture. LOL.

Sometimes my cell phone takes amazingly nice pictures. Of course, for this one, I did a bit of post processing in Lightroom, as I do for just about all my shots.

Is anyone seeing these posts, or is this place dead?

--Warren

Swiftcurrent Lake, Glacier National Park

Lumix LX5

Taken May 2015 at Glacier National Park. We were lucky to see the lake in the morning before the wind picked up and messed up the reflections.  

--Warren

Rest Stop

HTC One X Cell Phone

Shot this scene at Ocean Beach the other day... :)

I noticed this composition as I was resting on a bench facing the ocean.

--Warren

View of SF from North Vista Point

Lumix G5, Lumix 20mm f1.7

We stopped at the north end of the GG Bridge to see the last of the parade of ships for Fleet Week. I haven't taken out the Lumix 20mm lens for a while, and I'm still amazed by the great IQ from this lens.

--Warren

View from Above

More from Dan and me...

"Collision Course"

Untitled

Photo Vision 2

Dan got one of me from the same spot, shooting from almost the same vantage point. My shot on top here. 

Photo Vision

 

Dan shooting the picture above...

Collaborative Diptych #1

Last December (2014), Dan and I went on a photo outing to downtown SF. Between the two of us, we came up with almost 50 selected pictures. I was deciding how to present them to show our different points of view, and I decided to try using the diptych format in those cases where we photographed the same subject. It was a fun outing, and it has taken me a while to finally get around to showing them. Dan left it up to me to choose from his collection. 

What do you think? 

The Perfect Line

Lumix G5, Lumix 100-300mm

The annual Giro Di San Francisco bike race was held yesterday (Labor Day) down near Levi's Plaza.

I had a chance to practice my action photography. It was a really hot day, and I took a few hundred pictures. I'll probably put an online album together, but I couldn't resist picking one from the bunch to show first.

--Warren

A Warm Day at Rockaway Beach

Lumix GF1, Lumix 14mm f2.5

Hey, which one is your favorite?

--Warren

Pacific Street

Lumix G5, Lumix 14-45mm

I missed this shot with your typical little old lady walking across the doorway, but a few moments later, this young lady walked across... :)

Familiar Places

Lumix G5, Lumix 14-45mm

Relic

Lumix G5, Lumix 14-45mm

Getting back into the swing of things. What's everyone up to?


--Warren

Mammoth Hot Springs

Lumix LF1

It was mostly dry at Mammoth Hot Springs when we were there, but I did manage to find this surreal hillside scene.

--Warren

p.s. I hope everyone is having a great summer!

SF Bay done in Medium Format

I was on a tree job and since I sold my work camera, I was left with a Pentax 645z.  This view had to be down sampled in order to insert it into a Word Doc. for the report I was preparing. 55mm  f2 has a FOV of 43mm in 35mm format.  Nice small and lightweight all weather lens. 

Dan

Macro

The Sony Rx1r has a neat little macro dial on this fix lens camera.  Not bad IMO.

Dan

My Favorite Alpha

Sony Rx1r

Anyone Know this Famous Race Car

Warren, expecting you to name this one.  Sony Rx1r

Dan

Don't Fence Me In

Lumix G5, Lumix 100-300mm

I shot this last April near the Golden Gate Bridge.


--Warren

American Kestrel in Yellowstone

Lumix G5, Lumix 100-300mm

Gail and I were on the lookout for wildlife in Yellowstone, and we soon learned that the quickest clue to seeing where the wildlife was is to spot where the wildlife photographers are clustered. I'm referring to the really SERIOUS photographers who are using huge tripods, dslrs, and gigantic lenses. 

We spotted the above group, and we thought that they were waiting for a bear, but when we walked up and asked them, they said that they were shooting an American Kestrel nest. They were waiting for the female to fly into the nest, and apparently, they had been patiently waiting there for an hour or more. They were extemely touchy bordering on rudeness about people walking in front of their cameras for fear of their prize winning shot being ruined by someone's head in the frame. 

Well, I am a big fan of raptors of all kinds, so I was excited about the possibility of getting a shot of the bird at its nest too! While everybody had their big lenses aimed squarely at the nest, I with my handheld rig saw the birds flying around the nest. The birds are very careful about protecting their nest site, so they are very cautious about flying there, hence the long wait to catch the "perfect" shot.

I was able to grab some shots of the bird perched at nearby branches before the final series of it landing at the nest.

We were lucky, Gail and I only had to wait 10 minutes or so before the bird decided to land next to the nest, and fly into it.

After that, all the big lens people packed up and left to find the next photo opportunity. And I was very happy to be part of the gang who were there to capture that moment.

--Warren

Flamenco Sketching. Pictures made by pen and paint.

A 3 hour search for angles, lighting, shapes, and textures. I guess more too, perhaps. (The music was great!) These are pen sketches colored with watercolour paints. I have joined the Vancouver Urban Sketchers as of Jan 2014 to inform my photography. So far, the sketching has been helped by my photography instincts. Hopefully after a few more years of urban sketching, it will feed back into the photos. I've really slowed down my process of observation... which is what I think film photography also does (I have not figured out a way to make myself take that jump with enough commitment yet). There are some unique qualities of sketch observations though. With sketching, you feel every line put down. And lighten with every distant boundary. You lean into every perspective. It's been an interesting journey into a neighboring visual expression.