Category Archives: personal

Sam McDonald Park Hike

Sometime, life takes you places you weren’t planning to go, and it turns out really great, like the hiking adventure I had a few weekends ago. I had planned to go on a hike in Livermore to the largest falls around with a group. The leader of the group was forced to cancel due...

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Harold Davis Night Photography Workshop, Part Two

As the group at Harold Davis’ Night photography workshop eagerly waited for it to get darker, Jennifer and I scouted around for a few more fun shots to take. I love the menacing paint job on this shark boat, though somehow the shark in the reflection even seems a bit more menacing. 
For a few very...

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Harold Davis Night Photography Workshop, Part One

I attended a wonderful workshop with renowned photographer and author, Harold Davis. Though the main focus of the instructor was night photography, we had many hours together to discuss strategies for photography and safety, and to shoot our surroundings, the former naval shipyard on Mare Island, in daylight hours both to appreciate its beauty and...

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Food Photography – The Counter and Layang, Layang

I definitely think I’d fall into the category of people known as foodies. I love good food especially food that is beautiful in terms of presentation as well as tasting wonderful. I recently had two very different meals in which the presentation was just perfect.
The first was at my favorite burger place ever, The Counter...

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San Francisco Zoo Trip

Even though I live about an hour away from The San Francisco Zoo, and my friend Colleen lives about half an hour away, it isn’t somewhere either of us have visited often, so on our recent trip when we went to visit the animals and take photos, we took a long time walking around and...

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