Opera Garnier
The Opera Garnier in Paris is baroque and magnificent. It's mostly not used for opera any more as they've built a modern opera house (I've heard, however, from several people…
Dragon Dawn
In the Anza Borrego desert the hard-scrabble town of Borrego Springs, California loses most of its population in the summer, when temperatures soar and stay above 110 degrees Fahrenheit. One part…
Stanford Memorial Church
This is an HDR fisheye shot looking up at the ceiling of the Stanford Memorial Church and its rather wonderful mosaics.
Avenue 6 1/2
Harry Potter has his platform 9 3/4 in King's Cross Station and New York City has its Avenue 6 1/2. As you might expect, Avenue 6 1/2 lies between 6th…
New York Night in HDR
On a rooftop high above New York the lights of the city sparkled in the night. From so far above even the noise of the city was muted---all I could…
Multi-Raw Processing Fort Point and the Golden Gate Bridge
On the fly, while leading a small group of photographers to shoot the Golden Gate during full moonrise, I grabbed this fisheye shot of Fort Point with the Golden Gate…
Expecting the Unexpected
As a photographer, I am often reminded to expect the unexpected. The expected can produce workaday good pictures but it is the unexpected that produces great photos. Since fortune favors…
Spruce Street House
The parents of one of Katie Rose's buddies at pre-school are architects who just bought a classical Berkeley shingle house from the early 1900s. In recent years this grand house…