The last few days we had beautiful sunsets here in San Francisco. I hoped for the same thing tonight, but the sky over downtown wasn’t that exciting. Still, I enjoyed being outside and I got to play with my new camera (Nikon D800). I have to get used to the changed position of some buttons […]
San Francisco and fog are almost synonyms, at least during summer. Spring and fall are the sunny seasons with little fog. We just had some gorgeous spring days and then the fogged rolled in again. Having some fog in the picture is always better than having just a clear blue sky. So I ventured out […]
Last weekend was full moon and I happened to be in Yosemite. Luckily, the sky was clear and the waterfalls roaring. Everything was set for a nice moonbow show. So what is a moonbow? A moonbow is a rainbow lit by the light of the moon instead of the sun. Sometimes it is also called lunar […]
At the beginning of the day, the balcony and the surroundings were not covered by snow. A few hours of heavy snowfall, more than a feet of new snow accumulated. There is more snow to come during the night…
One of so many iconic postcard scenes in San Francisco: the view from Alamo Square with the colorful Victorians in the foreground and the skyscrapers of the financial district in the background.
A while back, we decided to make a short detour via the Merced National Wildlife Refuge on our way to Yosemite. I miscalculated when we had to get up to be at the wildlife refuge to capture the early morning light. So we arrived a bit too late. Just before arriving at the gate, the sun rose […]
I took this picture this past Sunday while shopping at San Francisco’s Ferry Building. At one point, it seemed that everyone was leaving the scene. So I took advantage of it to capture this empty indoor market.
Last Saturday, I joined an Adobe photo walk around Mission Creek Park in San Francisco. This was a fun event to share a few hours taking pictures of different subjects together with other photographers and friends. But it was not all about taking pictures. After 2 hours of shooting, we were fed by Adobe (thank […]
In early January, we spent a weekend at Lake Tahoe. Due to the lack of snow, we went hiking instead of skiing. The following pictures were taken around frozen Spooner Lake. Thanks to the dusting of snow we got the previous night, there was at least a little feeling of winter. It was kind of […]
Just a year ago, the big Carnival Splendor cruise ship was in a dry dock at pier 70 in San Francisco for some major repairs. Now an other big cruise ship from Carnival Cruise Lines is in the dry dock. Initially I thought it is the Carnival Splendor again, but no, it is the Carnival Spirit. It […]
A little panorama from Treasure Island showing the San Francisco skyline with the Golden Gate Bridge under a dramatic sky.
After the lunar eclipse this morning, we had a full moon tonight. For a long time we were wondering if this would be one of these nights where the moon is a no-show. But we got lucky and the fog was not that dense and laying rather low. We waited for a long time. The […]
The alarm clock was ringing early today. The plan was to shoot the Lunar Eclipse over Golden Gate Bridge. For once, we were lucky since there was no fog covering the bay and the bridge. Initially, it was still very dark and, although the lunar eclipse was already in full swing, the moon was still […]
I captured this sunset the other day at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. I was shifting my PC-E lens horizontally while taking this long time exposure. This added additional emphasis on the glowing horizon and vertical gradient while hiding some of the dirt in the sand.
A few days ago, I took some evening pictures from the San Francisco waterfront. This is the blog entry in case you missed it. Today, I went back but went past the Ferry Building to Pier 5. When I arrived at the end of the pier, I immediately knew that only a panorama could capture […]
