Flowers offer themselves as an easy subject of closeup shots, playing with dof, light and composition. You can push colors and shades to extremes, they still maintain their beauty. Worth a try? Well, I didn’t play too much when I took these at the Dole plantation in Hawaii two weeks ago (or so), but considering […]
The ING Bay to Breakers run/walk takes place in San Francisco every year around this time. An estimated 60,000 people participate every year, most of them wearing costumes, or nothing but shoes. This was the 99th edition, and was run just last Sunday. Living in South Bay, I had to wake up at 5.00am to […]
The Legion of Honor in San Francisco is just one of the many museums available in the city. I have posted before some pictures from the De Young and the MOMA, which are very rich expositions. The Legion of Honor is slightly smaller, and with a different theme: I can’t say that if you liked […]
There are times when you come across some great things that you just want to share: stories, ideas, songs, movies and links. Well, links to articles. This is the web2.0 generation after all, right? As you may have read my Macro, no really? post, you must have seen many links to Smashing Magazine. Now, while […]
Traditional definition might actually blur me off a bit, but I surely liked the results of closing up this much with my 50mm equipped with an additional 0.25x “magnifier”. Not exactly the results of a fish-eye, but interesting nonetheless. I find macro photography’s charm to reside in the exploratory nature of it. Macro photos reveal […]
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