A grab shot while walking into Photo San Francisco at Fort Mason. This is the marina located next to the fort. I did fiddle the shot with a Photoshop cross-processing filter just to give a little more pop.
As I went around the corner, I was greeted by this sight. Only in San Francisco….
Today, I drove up into the city to attend Photo San Francisco. I was a little nervous driving by myself because I am incapable of parallel parking. Fortunately, there was plenty of head-in parking available. The event was held at Fort Mason.
Here are the highlights of the show for me…
I am a subscriber to Lens Work Extended. I look forward to browsing through the portfolios and listening to the commentary by Brooks Jensen. The cover of this issue is a gorgeous black and white landscape by Stu Levy. However the extended version includes his portfolio of grid portraits. I found them mesmerizing. They are 20+ individual images forming a portrait of the person in their environment, usually an artist. In most, Stu can be seen lurking somewhere in the background. The best web images that I can find are too small to really appreciate but here is an idea. See grid portraits.
His grid images are fascinating and I think that I am going to try them in my landscape work just for fun.
After a bad work week, last week, and a bad start to this week, I decided to fiddle an image. This is a lens baby shot of blooming sorrel taken a month or so ago. Not very exciting shot by itself so I just started fiddling. Not sure why everything is going orange lately.
Last nite, I attended a presentation by Robert Buelteman about his new photographic work called ‘Through the Green Fuse‘. The green fuse images are surreal and magical. The write-up said he suddenly found himself tired of black and white landscape photography and gave up the camera, lens and computer to make these images. Wow! That is all my favorite things about photography.
Before, I describe his process please review the portofolio. Let your imagination run wild about how these images were made.
One more from Sunol on Saturday nite. Chip did not like this one but I did. I will admit that I like the color version better.
Found this one taken last month at Little Yosemite. The sharpness was not as good as I would have hoped.
Just playing arount with my tiger lily shot from Berkeley Botanical gardens. Wanted it to look scuffed up and textured.
Trying out making the mid-tones much darker. Think it gives a more painterly feel. For this shot, tried with and without the tree branch arcing over the top. Decided for the tree branch version for now.
After the terrible events of this week, I think my friend, Nona, has the right idea. “Practice acts of non violence everyday.”
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