Description:  As a photographer, rain can be your worst enemy or your best friend.  Rain provides the opportunity for a dull picture to come alive and the reflections to add new drama to any scene.
Location: Downtown, Sacramento
Date Taken: October 3, 2008
Camera: Canon 20D
Exposure: 1/10 second
Aperture: f/6.3
Focal Length: 17mm
ISO: 800

Description: Photowalking.org organized a downtown Sacramento neon photo walk last month that I had the opportunity to attend.  I met up with Thomas Hawk, Trevor Carpenter, and about 40 others (sorry, I’m very bad with names).  We walked all over downtown Sacramento, capturing as much neon as we could possibly handle.  I had a great time [...]

Description: This shot was not as planned out as it may seem.  After taking a dozen or so pictures of these meters, I realized I really like how it looked when there was some blur from the cars behind them.  After waiting around awhile waiting for the next set of cars to come by, it [...]

Description: Believe it or not, I only took one exposure of this shot.  When I saw the scene, I was intrigued, however, I couldn’t really get the angle I was looking for (so I thought).  All the cars in the road were in the frame every which way I turned the camera and for some [...]

Description: I met up with Jeremy Brooks and Thomas Hawk for an evening shoot on Treasure Island.  The building was completely abandoned and boarded up.  There was plenty of evidence that people had been in and out of this building over the years, but while we were there, we did not run into anyone.  As [...]

On August 23, 2008, Scott Kelby held a Worldwide Photowalk to celebrate the release of his book, “The Lightroom 2 Book for Digital Photographers.”  Due to popularity, San Francisco ended up holding three separate walks: along the Embarcadero, within the Haight-Ashbury, and at Seal Rocks Beach.
I participated in the Haight-Ashbury walk and had a great [...]

Last Thursday, July 24, 2008, I found out, via FriendFeed (what else), that Robert Scoble and Thomas Hawk were venturing out on a last second photowalk in San Francisco the following day, Friday.
Luckily, I was able to make the neceesary arrangments and met up with them at the Ferry Building.  We walked along Embarcadero to [...]