Main entrance of the 1870's era Administration Building at the former Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
Photo: "STFU, It's Friday?"
Why yes, yes it is Raven.
I'm really looking forward to my weekend shooting plans. I have a few new toys to play with (lights and camera stuff, although I suppose when I say toys, one might assume I mean dinosaurs) and exciting plans to go shoot something historic.
Cheers to the weekend!
Photo: "Panther Creek Falls"
During my last trip to Oregon, I shot my first landscape pano with a 17mm tilt shift. The conditions were right for filters to be unnecessary, the only downside of this lens is the inability to use filters, so I snapped a horizontal image and shifted the lens upward to capture the second image. Stitching was done in Photoshop, using a single click. I then brought the image back into Lightroom for final editing.
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Photo: "Out Of Place"
These operating room lights were found inside a former military barrack, known as Truett Hall, at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, but they clearly don't belong here as there wasn't even an operating room inside this building.
It makes me curious how they ended up in Room # 204.
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Photo: "Patient Names"
Patient name cards covered in dust, discovered inside the Polk Building at the West Tennessee Asylum for the Insane.
Photo: "The Trail"
Delicious fog creeping in over the city of San Francisco.
Photo: "Thurs Hearing Clinic"
Inside the 1930's era Polk Building at the West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane.
Photo: "Wash Away"
Valley View, Yosemite National Park
Last Saturday, I made an impromptu visit to Yosemite in search of some new fallen snow, which never quite made it down to the valley, but the mountain tops were beautifully capped, which was good enough for me. It felt so amazing to be back in nature. I definitely need to do this more often.
Photo: "Ducks"
Asylum hallway artwork.
Photo: "Fog Blanket"
Last night, I had intentions of shooting sunset at one of the local beaches. I watched the wispy clouds all day hoping they'd stick around and rushed back to the city in the afternoon, but as sunset neared, the clouds disappeared and the fog rolled in too thick for my original plans.
Today, I never intended to shoot the sunset, but once I noticed a less dense fog creeping over my house in Twin Peaks, I figured tonight, I'd embrace it. I grabbed my bag and rushed out the door and arrived at the Twin Peaks lookout just in time to capture a few shots of the city basking in a pink glow.
I hung out and waited for blue hour, which happens to be my absolute favorite time of day for photos, and captured this image while chatting to a marketing rep from+pashadelic. From the lookout, I didn't notice City Hall was lit up in rainbow colors, so that was a nice surprise when I began editing the images.
Photo: "Single Family Rehabilitation Home"
Inside Unit 2, a very large Children's Preventorium at the former South Mountain Sanatorium, lies this unusual structure. Located on the fourth floor in the center section of the building, sits what resembles a standard family house, complete with a living room, dining room, bathroom, kitchen and two small bedrooms. Sadly, not much information can be found about this house, but from the documentation I have found, it seems it was designed to be a rehabilitation home for a family with a child who had tuberculosis, but was not yet showing the active symptoms of the disease.
Photo: "Fogged In"
Foggy morning at the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
Photo: "One Hundred Shades of Red"
"He painted the sky
knowing red was her color
led her outside
covered her eyes
felt the beams on her skin
and when her eyes opened
she looked towards the sky
and saw it painted
in a hundred shades of red."
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Photo: "New Growth"
Nature always wins.
Photo: "Growth"
Vines creep into a patient room at the psychopathic building at the former West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane.
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