A collection of photos of San Francisco (with 1 exception) taken over the years. There is no central or unifying theme to this portfolio – just a few memories of the City. It is easily the subject that I have photographed the most. I grew up in San Francisco – some images are from my […]
Opened on May 27, 1937, the mile-long Golden Gate Bridge was one of my favorite photo subjects for many years. On trips to San Francisco, I would photograph the Bridge using a range of cameras, varying the times of the day and months of the year, and from different perspectives. Here are some of the […]
Having already displayed photos from last year’s Car Week, I would not normally include this year’s events. However, I upgraded from the Leica M-E and M Monochrom to a Leica M10-R and Q2 for an unfortunate reason – see post https://shboing.com/leica-photography/. The intent is to provide a comparison between the cameras. While Monterey Car Week […]
Monterey Car Week is a series of over 30 events including car shows, auctions, races and more; spanning 10 days during August; and stretching from Seaside, through Monterey, Pacific Grove, Carmel and Carmel Valley, all the way to Big Sur. It draws thousands of cars, worth in the billions, and up to 100,000 visitors to […]
Visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium is a wonderfully enriching and rewarding experience. We learn something new every time we visit. We’ve taken our family there multiple times as well as most of our out-of-town guests. They have a new exhibit, “Into the Deep”, highlighting species little seen off the Monterey coast in deeper waters. Please […]
Every year Incline Village and separately Michael Milken would display fireworks on Lake Tahoe near the Hyatt Regency. We could see them from the deck on our house, approximately 2-3 miles away and partially obscured by trees. The key to shooting fireworks is to determine a shutter speed that shows the largest burst of light, […]