Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Our first visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, we were quite hopefully for the cherry blossoms. However, we were either a week or two earlier, or maybe […]
Our first visit to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, we were quite hopefully for the cherry blossoms. However, we were either a week or two earlier, or maybe […]
Reduction printing is a method for creating a multi-color print. Compared to using multiple blocks, one for each color; the reduction method uses the same block carving […]
My recent linocut block print is of the Santa Clara Mission, here is a look at the entire process for creating the print. Tricky to measure how […]
As mentioned in my previous post, I've started working on block prints, specifically linoleum cuts, or linocuts for short. Here is a look at the process I […]
Once a month a parent leads an art lesson for my daughter's first grade class. We trade off who runs the lessons with other parents assisting, in […]
December is a fairly busy month, combined with a bought of flu going around our house, I didn't quite get as much photography done as I might […]
One thing constant around the area is the on going construction. Here are a few shots from the construction site for Stanford's new Redwood City campus. ❤️ […]
Each year Half Moon Bay has one of the largest pumpkin festivals in California, started back in 1971 as part of a city beautification project to help […]
Our home town had a nice Night of Holiday Lights with real fake snow, a grinch, a father winter, and of course Santa Claus ringing in the […]
A set of autumn photos from around town. Who says California doesn't have seasons and changing leaves. Ok, might not be to the extent of a New […]
The Town of Colma, featured briefly in this weekly post, is known as the only necropolis in the United States, a City of the Dead. The population […]
Colma is a small town a few miles south of San Francisco. The city is one of the stops along the El Camino Real and the adjacent […]
While out shooting for my El Camino project, I came across the St. Dunstan Catholic Church in Millbrae. It is a quaint church sitting on top of […]
The Redwood City 10th Annual Salsa Festival featured hot sauce and salsa dancing, I focused on the sauce. The salsa tasting competition included 8 competitors from mild […]
The tenth part of my twelves project is another set from El Camino Real the major road that runs through California from San Diego to San Francisco. You […]
One of the reasons for the Bay Area's prosperity and growth is from the mercury mines in south San Jose. The New Almaden Quicksilver Mine was the […]
Ardenwood Farm is a historic farm in Fremont, CA. George Patterson started the farm in the 1850's after failing to strike it rich mining gold. He ended […]
The last post in my Whistler series, see previous posts: day, night, and spooky. After so many trips to Lost Lake, John and I wanted a change […]
While out doing night photography with a group , I took a break from shooting the lake and stars and walked around Lost Lake Park. You can […]
I quite enjoy the art projects and surprises around Redwood City. The painting of utility boxes is a great idea turning unsightly but necessary utility boxes into […]
A group of us went out to Lost Lake to shoot at night, with hope to see the northern lights. Supposedly, it was good aurora season, we’re […]
At our company meetup, Alex and Matt challenged each other to photoblog more often. The challenge was also put out to the company, thus my official first entry […]
Old Sturbridge Village is a re-creation of an 1830’s New England Village, a large outdoor living history museum. The village sits on 200 acres and consists of […]
This summer our family took a summer vacation out in New England, this is the first of a few sets of photos from that trip. We stayed […]
The seventh set in my Twelves series is from Vancouver, British Columbia where my wife and I traveled for our anniversary. It was a wonderful visit to […]
One of the great things about using Fujifilm X-Series cameras is the wonderful film simulations, they are also one of the worst things. There are a handful […]
A Day at the County Fair is the June set for my Twelves project. This one ended up being a little more challenging since I was at […]
For my fifth installment of twelves project, I focused on non-natural light in the form of off-camera flash. You can see my setup in initial post, and […]
The second part in my series to learn more about flash and lighting, I played with moving the light around. You can see the first part in […]
As mentioned in my previous post, I’m going to start working on non-natural lighting. First up was a basic setup using a single flash into an umbrella, […]
I haven’t been able to get good results using a flash, ever. My photos usually end up too bright, too dark, or just bad with weird reflections. […]