Okay

I really need to get caught up. I have a ton of photos to post, I just need to get them all on to the computer. This is a bit more challenging than I thought, but I am going to press on. I will have some updates later tonight, I have to go and get ready to go to a wedding for a gay couple at a synagogue... Should be interesting to see as I have ever been to a synagogue. It is supposed to be one of the cooler ones in the city. Maybe I can sneak a picture, not sure what the etiquette is...

Feb 9, 2011

So still more snow. 4"-6" predicted for tonight.... So what do you do? You wrap up and leave the hotel and go to the bar... Duh!
So I tried to get some shots in the bar but nothing really came out well. So I was leaving and I saw this tree. Well I call it a tree, but it looks more like something that we have in CA or Texas. I just thought it was cool looking.
Oh and before I get the "OMG you went to a bar" comments... I am at a hotel with no restaurant and the closest eating establishments are both "Bar and Grill's".

Enjoy "Cactus Under Ice".

Feb 8, 2011

So once again it is cold, but I got out and goofed of.... alas, I forgot the camera. Not that there was anything exciting... for a "Galleria" the mall here is, well... bad... So I looked to the hotel for my inspiration. I was just walking around with my camera and looking for interesting items to shoot. This is all over the place in the hotel, I really wanted to get in to the pool area but for some reason they have it locked down. So here is the shot, who can tell me what it is???

Feb 7

Okay, I am going to change the way I date these. I was just going to go with the day # but that gets a tad confusing to my feeble mind...
So with that being said, I am still travelling. I am in Franklin Tennesee and it has snowed everyday that I have been here... which means I have not made it to Nashville, nor will I be able to on this visit. SUCK!!!
So being as I have limited transportation (feet) and it is snowing (cold and wet) I am limited as to what I can take pictures of. So for this one I went to the one place that I could go to easily. I like to call this picture "Devon's Best Friends."

Day - 37

Day 37 -  This has been a busy day. Got up early and off to the airport for a 7 hour trek to Nashville for work. I was hoping to find something interesting when I got to the Nashville Airport, but it was actually pretty lame, or maybe it is just the terminal I was in... So I was starting to worry about finding something to shoot. I finally got to the hotel and saw this. I thought it was kind of trippy. The piece in the middle looks like real cow hide but it is just a really detailed wallpaper... I liked the lines in this shot, it is actually not anything exciting, it is the headboard and the walls above the bed and the cow print wallpaper. There are a lot of cool textures in this. I am worried though about the rest of this trip... not sure how much I will be outside to take pictures... I will just have to get creative!

Day - 36

Day 36 - Well I tried to get some pictures from my clients office of  Coit Tower and Alcatraz but they just did not look... right... I hate shooting pictures through thick glass as it catches all of the reflections and they came out distorted... So I went home and was running back and forth between our house and the neighbors and Devon  said that I should look at the sunset. It was stunning. The clouds were just sitting over Mt. Tamalpias and had just went down behind the mountain. I love this shot, thanks for the tip baby! you know the EOS 50D just makes such grat shots. Maybe I need to upgrade my small camera to a G-12.... hmmmm

Day - 35

Day 35 - Well I got off a little early today so I went to the Mexican market to get dinner fixings. I like going in to the market because there is so much color and all of these great things that you don't see everyday. I was trying to be subtle while walking through and taking pictures... so a lot of the shots were on the sly. Most of them did not come out but this one did. It was over in the produce area where they have all thes huge bins of vegetables and fruits and Mexican specialties and they are all arranged by hand so they look really nice. I was hoping the one of the prickly pear fruit would come out but it was blurry. So this was my second favorite shot. I like the frame filling shots, I am going to have to start looking in to that more. It is just something about the colors and the textures, well except this picture, it is all green! I am going to have to try to make it to Chinatown one of these weekends, that is a real trip!

Day - 34

Day 34 - Well I was walkng through the city and actually remembered to take my camera. I was walking back from lunch and looked up in between the building and saw this shot of the Tranamerica Building. I was trying to capture all of the birds that suddenly took off but it didn't come out as much as I hoped. All in all this is not a great shot but it has come cool elements. I just wish I would have gotten more of the birds and got the tower more towards the side.

Day - 33

Day 33 - Well I have been riding the Ferry for almost 3 years now and I have never went up on the upper observation deck at the Ferry Terminal in SF. So I missed the first boat and had time to kill so I went up and was surprised how many great views you can see from that location. It is only a story taller but it gives you the height you need. So while up there I took a few night shots which require a longer exposure time. I know that I have posted a picture of the Ferry building before but that was from the boat and was an upward shot off a moving boat. I really like how this came out. I think it was actually advantageous that it was dark because you lose a lot of the clutter that is on the back of the Ferry Building. Let me know what you think.

Day - 32

Day 32 - Well we have one month down.. the hardest part of this is not taking the pictures, it is getting time to do the upload and the blog!
Anywho...
I was walking to Devon's office to meet her to go home and I walked past this Classic San Francisco Icon that is happens to be one of the only real "Places" in one of my favorite movies... as for the movie I will give you a hint:

"Look at the size of that boy's head. It's like an orange on a toothpick."

Day - 30

Day 30 - I was just playing around with the flash on the little camera in a dark room to see if I could come up with some interesting shots. I am not to thrilled with how these all came out but hey, that is what this is all about, see what works and seeing what don't.

Day - 31

Day 31 - Yeah, I was a slacker... I completely forgot about the picture today until it was too late. I did snap this shot of a succulant that we have on our patio. I like the pattern that the leaves form. I should have pushed in closer and got more of an abstract shot. It is hard to beleive that last summer this was about a 6" plant.. now it has taken over 3 flower pots.

Day - 29

Day 29 - We had family in this weekend and it was a good time. We went to the dog park and I saw these flowers that looked really brilliant. It was overcast and had just finished raining. There were a bunch of different colored flowers that were in full bloom but this one to me just seemed really vivd. What do you think?