Mike vs. The Golden Gate Bridge

Golden Gate Bridge from Baker Beach

The Golden Gate Bridge has always frustrated me as a subject. I find it very difficult to get a picture that I don’t dislike. I was hoping to break my zero for too many to count streak of outings to shoot the bridge. Tonight’s outing was at least not a strike out. Taken from Baker Beach.

Update: Reaction has been good to this image so I’m declaring this round for myself. I’m now 1 for 15 or so with the bridge.

California, Festival, San Francisco

Dia de los Muertos

From the Day of Dead Festival in San Francisco

Festival, Nevada

Dawn Patrol

Dawn Patrol - Great Reno Balloon Race

The magic of the Dawn Patrol at the Great Reno Balloon Race. This was my first balloon festival. I was completely entranced by the experience. So much so that I forgot the pain of getting up at 4:30am.

Full gallery available here.

Travel

La Boca

I recently decided to print some images from my South America trip and this was one of them. I realized after printing, I didn’t happen to include it in my La Boca page which got me to thinking about the process of photo selection. Clearly, I was picking differently the day I was printing than the day I was making the web page. I only decided to print two images from the trip and it seems odd that I chose one that is not among the 20 or so images I chose for to post to the web.

I’ve never liked the process of photo selection. I find it tedious and draining, particularly of my own work. Perhaps it’s just difficult to judge ones own work. Now that I’m wondering whether my judgments are consistent, I’m even less fond of the process. At least there’s an upside. Later viewings may find more images I like. I like this one well enough to hang on my wall.

California, Silicon Valley

Path through the woods

Taken at Rancho San Antonio.

The background color is automatically chosen based on the image. Most of the time the software picks well. This particular image caused it pick something truly ugly.

California, Wildlife

Egret

Egret Taken at Palo Alto Baylands

This image is technically flawed. I’ve lost the highlight detail on part of the egret.
I like the image anyway. Part of me says I shouldn’t post an image with such an obvious flaw but then I think it’s not a horrible flaw and only picky people like me will notice it anyway.

California, Travel