The view across Topaz Lake, Nevada on a foggy, brisk January morning.
Photo: "1914 Organ and Historical Essay"
I recently had the opportunity to photograph the St. Joseph's Church in San Francisco, a beautiful, magnificent church, in use from 1913-1989.
Read my historical essay here: http://bit.ly/StJosephsChurch
Pictured here: The 99 year old church organ.
Photo: "The First Is A New Beginning"
I was going to hold off on posting these photos, but I'm too excited not to share. This morning, I experienced my first sunrise with fog at the Golden Gate.
Last night, I saw the low fog rolling over the hills on my way home and decided to wake up at 5am to check the webcams. +Joe Azure and I exchanged a few text messages and decided we were going to give it a shot, even though there was only a bit of fog on the webcams.
When I parked my car in Marin, this was my surreal view. In fact, this was also the first shot of the morning, so it felt fitting to post the first image of the first fog morning at the beautiful Golden Gate.
Photo: "Romanesque"
The St. Joseph's Church was constructed in 1913 and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The building experienced minor structural damage in 1989 during the Loma Prieta quake and the church never opened its doors again.
Photo: "Pick Up the Questions"
December sunset in Southern California.
Photo: "Golden Dairy Farm"
Former California dairy farm during blue hour.
Photo: "A Life Without Light"
Former patient bed left on the dark first floor of the Babcock Building at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum.
Photo: "Let the Breeze In"
Former fish hatchery, Mono Lake Basin.
Photo: "Skeleton's Disco"
Fort Funston, California.
Photo: "Shadows Tell One Hundred Stories"
Stained glass window, St. Joseph's Church
This large stained glass window spans another 6-8 feet down to the ground floor below. However, after the church was re-constructed, in 1913, after being destroyed by fire from the San Francisco quake of 1906, this small attic-like space was added to this room, visually splitting the beautiful window in half.
Photo: "Candy Coated Dreams"
Sunset from Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco. 1/19/13
Photo: "Wing Archway"
The Babcock Building at the South Carolina Lunatic Asylum was constructed in four waves between 1857 and 1885. It was constructed based on a Renaissance Revival design and was adorned with wood floors and trim. This building contained a four-story central structure and North and South wings. Each floor of each block contained individual patient rooms until 1915 when renovation began.
Large open areas were created by removing partition walls, to provide patients with open dormitories and seating areas and electricity was also introduced.
In 1980, the wings were cleared of patients, but the central portion of the building was still being used.
The Babcock Building was placed on the National Historic Register in 1981.
Photo: "Hey There Manly Beacon!"
After setting up my tripod at the top of the hill with the rest of my group, I decided I wasn't happy with my perspective. Since I shot sunrise from that same spot during the last trip, with a nice sky, I decided I wanted a new angle.
I began the decent into the canyon half an hour before sunrise, stopping along the way to take shots from various angles and not realizing that I had walked so far until the Manly Beacon was directly to my right. I suddenly realized the walk back to the car would be much farther than I had anticipated.
Photo: "Glass House No More"
Standing inside a collapsed building, once part of an old fish hatchery, in the Mono Lake area.
Photo: "A Zen Lifestyle"
Former commune, California.