Photo: "Large Trees In A Tiny World"

​This ranch was founded by an Italian settler and dates back to the late 1800's. The original buildings included a small six room house and a single horse barn. In the early 1900's, the house was expanded to fourteen rooms, the barn was also expanded and a blacksmith shop was constructed. It eventually became the one of the largest ranch in the areal in terms of livestock and produce. 

The owner and founder died in 1933 and by the 1940's most of the ancestors had left. The ranch now belongs to the Forest Service. 

Photo: "Guarded"

Last night, I found an old iPhone image (http://instagram.com/p/YG7fXeNy3H/) of this beautiful asylum's exterior lost in fog. It got me thinking about the DSLR images I took at this location and I couldn't remember publishing many, so I went back through the set and found a few I liked.  

This is a secure entrance to the Forensic Building at Weston State Hospital. This building housed the criminally insane, patients who may have been deemed "not guilty by reason of insanity." 

Photo: "Magazine Storage"

At the Southern tip of the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard groupings of former magazine buildings still remain today even though the shipyard has been decommissioned for nearly 20 years. These buildings once stored a variety of ammunition for land and sea weaponry. 

I've been told the walls of these buildings were constructed of concrete and the roofs of a metal material, so that during an accidental explosion, the blast would move vertically instead of horizontally. 

Photo: "Sutro Baths and Cliff House"

On this particular night in March, +Tran Mai and I decided to grab dinner before shooting Sutro Baths for sunset. Dinner lasted longer than expected and we arrived here with about 15 minutes to spare. As soon as the sun went down, we were joined by +Hillary Fox, who was in town. I opened the shutter while we were talking and watching the waves. 

Photo: "Tucked In"

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My alarm went off at 7am this morning and the only few words I remember from the radio program was "Thick, low fog on the Golden Gate Bridge this morning..." Sadly, I didn't paid attention to the forecast last night, or I might have been out shooting. Hopefully +Joe Azure got something good :-)

This shot is from my first fog morning ever, taken a few weeks ago. It was a glorious morning. 

Photo: "Romanesque Curves"

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St. Joseph's was re-constructed in 1913, after being completely destroyed in the 1906 quake. San Francisco architect John Foley was hired to design the building and chose the Romanesque Revival Style, which was not very common for this time period, as it was primarily utilized many years prior. 

To read more about the church, please visit my historical essay:http://bit.ly/StJosephsChurch

Photo: "Stirred, Not Shaken"

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Lake Tahoe, California

This was taken back in January on the way home after spending a Saturday in the Eastern Sierras with +Jeff Sullivan and +Lori Hibbett. On Sunday, +Tran Mai began the trek home and stopped in Tahoe for snowshoeing and  sunset. We didn't get great color, but it was a great opportunity to slap on the Big Stopper and get a long exposure.