Posts under ‘photo’

The Valencia Street Swing

Let me tell you about my love/hate relationship with the Valencia Street Swing. I love how elegant it is, and hate that I didn’t think of it first. A few weeks ago, some folks hung this swing from a tree branch across the street from Summit Cafe and it somehow managed to survive until late [...]

Journey Into Analog 01

I bought my Diana (by Lomography) in December from Photobooth SF (where I also got this tintype portrait). I figured learning more about analog photography could be a great way to help me improve aspects of my digital photography. I shot my first four rolls of film using the “pinhole” exposure… meaning not a single [...]

insantawalk

Bring your cell phone and join us for the first ever Santa-themed Instawalk this Saturday! An instawalk is a twist on the traditional photowalk, where participants share their pictures as they go. You can follow the stream of photos by following the #insantawalk tag on Instagram or Twitter. We’ll meet up near the entrance to [...]

Un-Ironic Skate Night part II

A week after I found a sexy pair of inline skates on Valencia St, my best friend Mer found a FANTASTIC pair for herself on Mission St. What are the fucking odds? Which of course means we HAVE to do another Un-ironic Skate Night at CELLspace this Tuesday night from 7-10pm. Door is $10, rentals [...]

Flying into their own shadows

I noticed this dark line running across this morning’s blue sky… It took me a moment to figure out it was created by the contrails of a jet. The cool part was that everything lined up in such a way that the plane was flying directly into it’s own shadow. It was a fun illusion [...]