This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. After a beautiful but short Indian Summer, the weather changed today and at San Francisco’s Marina we had a complete whiteout this afternoon. With the outgoing tide and wind speed above 20 knots, the conditions couldn’t be more different to yesterdays practice races […]
This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. The teams are getting ready for the 2nd AC World Series race in San Francisco. Just a few days left until the start. Team Oracle’s AC72 made a guest appearance today. Compared to the already big AC45s, the AC72 is just huge. I […]
Since I already planed to go to Hawk Hill in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to photograph the fly-by of the Space Shuttle Endeavour (link), I decided to get up a few hours earlier to capture the sunrise as well. This is something I wanted to do for a long time but never had […]
Today we had a once in a lifetime event in San Francisco: the Space Shuttle Endeavour mounted on top of the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), a modified Boeing 747, made a low attitude fly-by through the Bay Area on its way to retirement in Los Angeles. I was on top of Hawk Hill in the […]
There is not that much to say… An other beautiful sunset here in San Francisco. Under a big sky, Twin Peaks is covered in a thick layer of fog through which the Sutro Tower antennas stick out.
This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. Here are some images of todays two amazing fleet races. It is impressive to have eleven boats on the same short course right next to the shore.
This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. Practice racing brought a lot of action, two boats even capsized. If the wind stays strong, the competition will be very interesting to watch.
This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. Today was the first day of America’s Cup World Series races in San Francisco. Six teams competed to win the last three spots for the match races quarter finals. Both Luna Rossa teams and Ben Ainslie’s BAR team won their respective series and […]
This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. With all the wind we have lately and the America’s Cup World Series in town, there is a lot of action going on in the bay. Here are some snapshots from last week.
This post is part of my America’s Cup in San Francisco blog post series. America’s Cup AC World Series is staring next week in San Francisco. Workers are busy setting up the Marina Greens to host all visitors and spectators. At the same time, teams are already training in the bay. I went out to take some […]
A few weeks ago, I photographed the annular solar eclipse in Redding. The original plan was to head up to Redding Saturday afternoon and have plenty of time for scouting. Unfortunately, we only made it to Redding early Sunday afternoon with little time left for scouting since the eclipse started around 5pm. I passed through the Shasta Lake […]
What would be San Francisco without its Golden Gate Bridge? A glimpse of this icon is visible from many different corners of the city. A big party happened last weekend to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the bridge. Some of the festivities will continue until the end of the year. See goldengatebridge75.org/celebrate for additional information. Since I love both fireworks and […]
This was the first time ever I saw a solar eclipse in nature. Okay, it was ‘only’ an annular eclipse, but it was beautiful and a great experience. Around us was a big crowd and when the moon moved over the sun and only a circle of light (aka fire ring) was visible, everyone burst […]
One month ago, I tried to photograph the moonbow on Yosemite Falls. I wasn’t that happy with the pictures taken from the far end of Cooks Meadow. This Saturday was perigee moon, aka supermoon. This is when the moon’s orbit is closest to earth and the moon is bigger and much brighter. At the same time, the […]
These pictures were taken one day before the real full moon. This allowed me to capture the moon a bit higher in the sky when the sky was not completely dark. Coincidently, the moon’s orbit was almost closest to earth (perigee) which makes the moon appear bigger and brighter. This picture shows the strength of the moon light. […]
