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San Mateo Murals
15
photos
Vintage Automobiles
30
photos
There is something about vintage cars that captures our imagination and holds us firmly in their grip throughout life. Our enthusiasm ebbs and flows and is dependent on spare time, spare cash, work,...
Seasonal
29
photos
Food
13
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The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
5
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The Funk Art of Clayton Bailey
4
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Hyatt SF: World's Largest Lobby
12
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The Hyatt Regency hotel in San Francisco opened in 1973. Its remarkable cavernous lobby holds the Guinness World Record as the world's largest hotel lobby.
Cactus and Succulents
90
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Ansel Adams: In Our Times
9
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Sargent and Spain
14
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Music Makers
60
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Light and Shadow
54
photos
A shadow is the absence of light – therefore plays a part in photography by creating contrast or grading. A shadow is formed when something comes between the light source and the surface. The...
Sculpture
139
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Merced NWR 2023
13
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Culinary Works of Art
9
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Diego Rivera, Mexican Artist
55
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Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of the world's renowned muralists, recognized for his large-scale and imaginary murals.....he sought to make art that reflected the lives of the Mexican people.
Ramses The Great and the Gold of the Pharoahs 2022
10
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Children
42
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Alice Neel: 'People Come First'
20
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Etchings
10
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Jim Henson: Imagination Unlimited
6
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The Jim Henson Exhibition at Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, April 7, 2022
The Faces Of Holi
13
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Fruits & Vegetables
36
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The Deep South
6
photos
The "Deep South" is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States including the states of Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Texas and Florida...
Travels in America
91
photos
Travels in Europe
52
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Travels in Asia
23
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Travels in Italy
16
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Amador County
5
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Arroyo Court, San Mateo
8
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Surfing The Pacific Coast
36
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Half Moon Bay: Martin's Beach
11
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Texture and Pattern
77
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Capturing texture in a photograph can add visual interest, highlight unique patterns, or even evoke emotions. Texture photography overlaps with many kinds of photography, including everything...
San Francisco Botanical Garden
37
photos
The San Francisco Botanical Garden was formerly known as Strybing Arboretum. It is part of Golden Gate Park....55 acres of land stretching across the Inner Sunset area of San Francisco. This...
Trees
170
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Pandemic 2020
7
photos
Oakland Museum of California
24
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The Art of Burning Man
12
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San Francisco Transbay Terminal
26
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Maui 2019
35
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James Tissot: Fashion & Faith
24
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Warhol 'From A to B and Back Again'
23
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Peter Paul Rubens at The Legion
15
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Holi Festival 2019
14
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Third Annual Women's March
6
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San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge
4
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The Photography of Brassai (Jules Halasz)
27
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Folsom Street Fair
16
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Mission Santa Clara de Asis
12
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Things That Go Unnoticed
41
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Its the little things that make life worth living.......things that we walk by every day and never notice. It wasn't until I retired that I realized how much I had missed....always in a...
The Artistry of Rene Magritte
33
photos
Lake Tahoe 2018
17
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Point Reyes 2018
10
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March For Our Lives
12
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Churches, Temples & Mosques
184
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Holi Festival of Colors
11
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"Holi", also known as "The Festival of Colors", is a Hindu spring festival celebrated all across India and Nepal as well as in other countries with large Indian diaspora...
Casanova at The Legion
15
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San Mateo's Hayward Park
3
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Mission San Jose
7
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Woodbridge Ecological Reserve
14
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Women's March San Francisco 2018
13
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Klimt and Rodin at The Legion
10
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All About Clowns
7
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Clouds Over Santa Cruz Mountains
5
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Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid
5
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Degas and Paris Millinery Trade
30
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French painter Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and other impressionist artists of his time were not only interested in capturing the spectacle of the millinery shop but also focused on its female clientele. ...
San Francisco "Summer of Love"
22
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In explore
41
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Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application. Explore is Flickr's way of showcasing the most interesting photos within a given point in time -- usually over a 24 hour period. ...
Herding Sheep at Half Moon Bay
15
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Elizabeth Gamble Garden, Palo Alto
19
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Edgewood Park Natural Preserve
15
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Russian Ridge Open Space Preserve
22
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Merced NWR 2017
7
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Town Hall America 2017
12
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Home Land Security Art Exhibit
10
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Hong Kong 2000
11
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Miami 2016
20
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Cuba's Magnificent Vintage Automobiles
12
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To the first-time visitor, it seems that Cuba has a love affair with vintage American automobiles. It's estimated that more than 60,000 of the 175,000, or so, cars in the country are pre-1960...
Cuba 2016
112
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Cuba is a country timeworn but magnificent, dilapidated but dignified, fun yet maddeningly frustrating - Cuba is a country of indefinable magic. As it is today, but perhaps for not much longer, Cuba...
New Mexico
37
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Pet Cemetery
11
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In our culture many feel the need to memorialize a pet after its passing by burying the remains in a pet cemetery. Creating a tribute to our pet, and thus preserving its memory, can be very...
Cemetery
32
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San Francisco Street Art - Lilac Alley
26
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Lilac Alley is a two block long alleyway that stretches from 24th Street to 26th and is sandwiched between Mission and Capp Streets in San Francisco's 'Mission District'. It's one of those places...
SF Museum of Modern Art
192
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Architecture: The Fairytale Cottages of Hugh...
6
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Photography of Roman Vishniac
9
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Merced NWR 2016
25
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California Missions
49
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The twenty-one missions of California, from San Diego to San Francisco, are historic treasures. Beautiful structures built of adobe brick and wood, adorned with towers, domes, white-washed stucco,...
Old & Famous Photographs
89
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A Day at The d'Orsay
33
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Color
109
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The Goats Are Coming
7
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Something to Remember
3
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Dear Grandchildren, We may no longer be a part of your lives but, in no way, could we ever forget you and all of the wonderful moments we've had together. Watching you both grow up has been one of...
Paris: City of Light
82
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French Waterways: The Saone and Rhone Rivers
136
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France has a population of around 61 million and covers an area of 210,025 sq. miles. France is bordered by six countries and has many rivers, the Saone and Rhone being two of them. The Saone, in...
Woman Photographers From Iran and Arab World
9
photos
Photographs on the Street
170
photos
To me, so-called "street photography' are photographs taken in public places. I believe that they can be staged or candid so long as they elicit some sort of reaction in the viewer's...
Most Popular Photographs
466
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These are my most popular photographs in terms of the number of times viewed. Most of these photos have been viewed over a thousand times and some, over ten thousand times.
Zakheim's Medical History of California, UCSF
16
photos
City of Oakland
13
photos
Merced NWR 2015
6
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Natural Bridges, Santa Cruz
9
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Monterey Bay
35
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Budapest
36
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Portraits by Arnold Newman
8
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Burleigh Murray Ranch
4
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Gay Pride 2014
10
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Along The Rhine, Main & Danube Rivers
138
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brotherhood golf tournament
5
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Folsom Lake
10
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Pacific Shores
199
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Shorelines of the Pacific Coast
Don Edwards SF Bay National Wildlife Refuge
5
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Merced National Wildlife Refuge
30
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Homeless in San Francisco
28
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The City of San Francisco spends $200 million a year trying to get homeless people off the streets and into a better way of life, and though progress has been made over the past twenty years, the...
Maybeck's Masterpiece: First Church
10
photos
Bridges of San Francisco
58
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The San Francisco Bay is home to some of the most famous and magnificent bridges ever built, including the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Richmond-San Rafael Bridge,...
Point Reyes National Seashore
7
photos
Palace of Fine Arts
18
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Gay Pride 2013
11
photos
San Mateo Japanese Garden
18
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How Weird Street Faire - 2013
9
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Pigeon Point
8
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Haas-Lilienthal House
9
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Disneyland 2012
6
photos
America's Cup - San Francisco 2012-2013
25
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For the first time in the city's history, the world's top racing yachts will convene on San Francisco Bay for a series of regattas, culminating in the America's Cup Finals from September 7-22,...
'Albany Bulb', Art in a Landfill
17
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Albany Bulb is home to a vast array of urban art including mural, stencil, graffiti, sculpture, and installation art. Sculptor and activist lawyer Osha Neumann has created some of the largest works....
San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex
8
photos
Gaudi's Barcelona
21
photos
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia and the second largest in Spain. It is a city of grand and fascinating modern architecture. And its not just the famous buildings that stand out...
Los Judios de España (The Jews of Spain)
42
photos
Travels in Spain
191
photos
PTBE Purimspiel - "Annie Get Your Spiel" 2012
15
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Rivera's Pan American Unity Mural, CCSF
28
photos
The 1800 square foot 'Pan American Unity Mural' painted by famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera in 1940 is a national treasure. It was commissioned by architect Timothy Pflueger to be created during...
New York City
8
photos
Pixel Bender
52
photos
Pixel Bender is a plug-in for Adobe Photoshop CS5 and supports image processing of Pixel Bender filters opened in Photoshop CS5. This great tool from Adobe Labs lets you apply any one of a series of...
Columbia, Gem of the Southern Mines
12
photos
Columbia, known as the gaudy showplace of the Mother Lode, is today the ghost town supreme to Californians. In 1945 the state park system took over the crumbled camp and restored her faded charm as a...
Stanford Football
8
photos
Zion National Park
4
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Antelope Canyon
16
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Valley of the Gods
4
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Monument Valley
53
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Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
323
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The Jelly Belly Factory
6
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Safari West
16
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Virginia City, "The Richest City in America"
12
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Tahoe, Lake of the Sky
14
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Stanford Cactus Garden
64
photos
The Stanford Cactus Garden is a historical garden located on the south side of the Stanford Family mausoleum on the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. The garden, also known as...
Doors & Windows
72
photos
Doors and windows have always fascinated me. They beg us to open them and I always wonder what's behind them. They are full of patterns, textures, colors and design. They call us to be...
Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland
22
photos
Dunsmuir-Hellman Historic Estate
14
photos
Dunsmuir House was built by Alexander Dunsmuir who came to the Bay Area from British Columbia, Canada in 1878. In 1899 Dunsmuir purchased a large tract of land in the rolling East Bay foothills of...
Mission San Miguel Arcangel
12
photos
Muir Woods: The Ancient Redwood Forest
15
photos
Swedenborgian Church of SF: The Poetry of...
9
photos
One of the most architecturally distinguished churches in San Francisco is the Swedenborgian Church on Lyon Street. It is the first and only house of worship in the City to be granted the honor (in...
Carnaval 2007
23
photos
My Favorite Photos
176
photos
At this moment, these are my favorites. My favoritism is ephemeral...so that, every once-in-a-while I'll remove one and add another in.
Experimental Photography
11
photos
The Carolands Chateau
5
photos
The Carolands Chateau is a 65,000 square foot mansion in Hillsborough, California. Its 75 foot-high atrium holds the record as the largest enclosed space in an American private residence. Considered...
Charlotte's B'nai Mitzvah
1
photo
Fitzgerald Marine Reserve at Moss Beach
52
photos
Prized as one of the best tidepool habitats in Northern California the James V. Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, California, is one of eighteen 'MPA's' (Marine Protected Areas) established...
Ardenwood Historic Farm at Fremont
19
photos
Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk
12
photos
The boardwalk in Santa Cruz, California (70 miles south of San Francisco) is the only remaining major seaside amusement park on the West Coast. Its history goes back to 1865 when John Leibrandt...
Preston Castle - Ione
21
photos
In 1890, the California State Legislature purchased 230 acres from the Ione Coal & Iron Company for construction of the Preston School of Industry, a place where troubled boys could learn a trade...
Portraits
130
photos
Gay Pride 2010
21
photos
Pier 24 Photography
99
photos
San Francisco’s Pier 24 Photography is a gigantic photography space set in a former warehouse right below the Bay Bridge. At 28,000 square feet, it’s one of the largest galleries in the world...
Conservatory of Flowers
18
photos
Faces of Protest
16
photos
North of The City: Marin County
18
photos
V.C. Morris Gift Shop: The Guggenheim Prototype
7
photos
Located on Maiden Lane, a once infamous place in downtown San Francisco, the V.C. (Vere Chase) Morris Gift Shop was renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 and used as his prototype for the circular...
Bay Area Architecture
48
photos
Beach Chalet Murals: Labaudt's "San Francisco...
5
photos
"San Francisco Life", painted by Lucien Adolphe Labaudt (1880-1943), is a fresco covering three walls of the ground floor of the Willis Polk-designed 'Beach Chalet' at Ocean Beach in San...
USS Hornet (CV 12)
6
photos
The Aircraft Carrier USS Hornet (CV 12) is a national treasure, having participated in two of the greatest events of the 20th century -- World War II and the Apollo 11 manned space mission. Located...
Coit Tower Murals: Art of The Great Depression
21
photos
When Coit Tower in San Francisco, California was completed in 1933, its interior consisted of over 3,000 feet of blank wall space. In early 1934, the building became the pilot project of the Public...
In The Victorian Style
13
photos
Purissima, A Town Forgotten
25
photos
Located in a rural area four miles south of Half Moon Bay, Purissima was one of the earliest settlements on the San Mateo County coast. Spanish soldiers founded the little hamlet before 1820 as an...
Birds of a Feather
155
photos
Heritage Grove
45
photos
Heritage Grove Redwood Preserve is a magnificent 37-acre "old-growth" Redwood forest near the small Northern California community of La Honda in the Santa Cruz Mountains. These ancient...
Nourot Glass Studio
15
photos
Enchanted Forest at Half Moon Bay
29
photos
I call this place the "enchanted forest" because of the feeling I get as I walk this trail in Half Moon Bay under what has, over many years, developed into a thick canopy of trees. To my...
Fisherman's Wharf
10
photos
Macro Photography: The Little Things in Life
45
photos
Jogathon 2009
1
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Hatch Elementary School, Annual Jogathon, Half Moon Bay, California - October 23, 2009
Autumn Harvest
30
photos
There's a farmer's market located close to where I live in northern California. Its open year-round, rain or shine, on Wednesday and Saturday mornings. I love going there and am always delighted by...
Blue Angels Over San Francisco
10
photos
Everyone wants to know the best vantage point for taking photographs during San Francisco's Blue Angels air show at Fleet Week. This is the first year I've seen the air show and decided to take...
Petaluma Adobe
24
photos
On a hill overlooking Petaluma Valley stands the Petaluma Adobe, an impressive two-story adobe building encircled by a veranda. This structure is all that remains of Commandant General Mariano...
Jackson Square Historic District
9
photos
San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo (Carmel) Mission
7
photos
Carmel Mission was founded in 1770 and is considered one of the most beautiful in the chain of California missions. The mission was the second of the Alta California Missions and, for more than 30...
Elkhorn Slough at Moss Landing
20
photos
Sanchez Adobe
11
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St. Ignatius Catholic Church, a San Francisco...
13
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Mission Dolores, City of Saint Francis
17
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Marin County Civic Center
11
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It is said that Frank Lloyd Wright walked off the highway at the site that would become the Marin County Civic Center and said "I will cover your hills with arches." The design's domed roof...
A Day At The Zoo
56
photos
Photographed at the San Francisco Zoo on July 14, 2009
Gay Pride 2009
23
photos
Hornitos: Ghost Town in the Making
25
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Hang Gliding at Fort Funston
19
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Once Upon a Time in Drawbridge
21
photos
Once upon a time, over a hundred years ago, there was a town called "Drawbridge" located in the southeast corner of San Francisco Bay. It was 1876 when a new railroad called The South...
Other Deserted Places
3
photos
Chinese Camp
7
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The "Granite Lady"
16
photos
Completed in 1874, the fabulous “Granite Lady” has stood its ground through San Francisco's many transformations – and disasters, including the Great Earthquake of 1906. Between 1874 and 1937,...
Griffin Plays T-Ball
1
photo
"Shamrocks", March-May, 2009
Sacramento River Delta Towns
36
photos
My photographs of old towns and sights along the banks of the Sacramento River in northern California.
Infrared
34
photos
Old Richmond Kaiser Shipyards
16
photos
The four shipyards, located in the city of Richmond, California, were run by Henry J. Kaiser. These shipyards were responsible for constructing more ships during World War II than any other in the...
Baylands Nature Preserve
71
photos
Maritime Traffic on San Francisco Bay
49
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Drake's Bay
7
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Fort Point
33
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Often called "the Pride of the Pacific" Fort Point has stood guard at the narrows of the Golden Gate for nearly 150 years. Fort Point was built between 1853 and 1861 by the U.S. Army...
Half Moon Bay
205
photos
Resting on the Pacific Coast between forested hllls and some of the most beautiful coastlines that California has to offer is the City of Half Moon Bay. The City has a total area of 6.4 square miles...
Point Montara
6
photos
Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco
42
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California Academy of Sciences
48
photos
The vertical tropical rainforest biosphere at the new California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is one of the most unusual structures to be found at any museum in the world. The...
Crystal Springs
37
photos
The Crystal Springs Dam holds back the reservoir water of Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir in San Mateo County, California. The dam was completed in 1890 and has survived both the 1906 and 1989...
Flowers
656
photos
My Photographic Plant Garden: My garden of photographs dedicated to the collection and display of a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names. It may contain specialist plant...
Fort Ross, Russians in America
14
photos
Did you know that Russians once inhabited parts of northern California?? In April, 1806 Nikolai Rezanov of the "Russian-American Company" sailed south from the Russian base at Sitka,...
Filoli - "FIght, LOve, LIve"
94
photos
Filoli, located on the Peninsula 25 miles south of San Francisco, is a famous American country house set in 16 acres of formal gardens surrounded by a 654 acre estate. Filoli was built between 1915...
"The Haight", American Counterculture
24
photos
"The Haight", otherwise known as the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, is named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets. The district encompasses the neighborhood...
Hanna House
8
photos
Hanna House was designed for Stanford University professor Paul Hanna, his wife Jean and their five children. They asked Wright to design an inexpensive house for their growing family, and Wright's...
Beth Sholom Synagogue
12
photos
Chihuly at de Young
43
photos
Dale Chihuly is considered the single most important contemporary artist working in glass today. It was through his own personal vision that he has been responsible for transforming the scope and...
Alcatraz Island
15
photos
The 22-acre island of Alcatraz was named in 1775 by the Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala, who charted the San Francisco Bay. He called the island "La Isla de los Alcatraces", and...
Napa Valley
6
photos
China Camp
15
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China Camp was one of twenty or thirty fishing villages that once dotted the shores of San Francisco and San Pablo Bays. During the 1880's, nearly 500 people lived in the Chinese fishing village...
Fascinating Photos
23
photos
Gay Pride 2008
37
photos
The annual Pride Celebration commemorates the rebellion of LGBT patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York City’s Greenwich Village in response to a routine police raid on June 27, 1969. The...
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
26
photos
The longest-living members of the bristlecone species exist in harsh conditions in the upper reaches of California’s White Mountains. With less than twelve inches of annual precipitation and a...
Point Lobos State Reserve
31
photos
Point Lobos was said, by landscape artist Francis McComas (1875-1938), to be, "the greatest meeting of land and water in the world". All who have ever come here, including the photographer...
Lighthouses I've Seen
51
photos
If lighthouses could talk, they would tell you the most amazing stories of the things they've seen and heard. I find them both fascinating and beautiful. In addition to my family they are my most...
Fif's Nursery School Graduation
1
photo
Carnaval 2008
34
photos
On February 25th, 1979, a windy, cold and rainy Sunday in San Francisco, about three hundred drummers and dancers, dressed in multifarious colors and shapes, paraded around Precita Park in the...
Ancient Port City of Caesarea
3
photos
The Gardens of Hakone
28
photos
Hakone is the oldest Asian and Japanese estate in the Western Hemisphere, eighteen acres of magnificent beauty nestled in the verdant hills of Saratoga overlooking Silicon Valley in Central...
Group Photos: A Memorable Journey
134
photos
These photos of our trip are special to me because they portray, not only the look and feel of Israel, but the excitement that was in our hearts. You can see it on our faces....the pleasurable...
En Gedi National Park
3
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Tel Dan Nature Reserve
3
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Mitzpe Ramon and Ramon Crater
6
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Ecovillage at Kibbutz Lotan
6
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"Natural building", a mixture of clay, mud and straw. Ecological sustainability is the central theme of intern programs at Kibbutz Lotan. The medium for introducing the message of...
Ayalon Institute: Secret in the Hill
1
photo
Along the Road in Israel
32
photos
Eilat: Search for Spirituality
22
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On the Lebanon Border
10
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Images of Safed (Zefat)
22
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A city located in the mountains of the Upper Galilee (Northern District of Israel), Safed is one of Judaisms Four Holy Cities. It is also the highest city in Israel at 3200 feet above sea level. In...
Masada
8
photos
Sights of Tel Aviv
14
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Almost a hundred years ago, David ben Gurion and other Jews founded the new city of Tel Aviv (literally "Hill of Spring") on land purchased from Bedouins north of Jaffa. Six years later,...
Sights of Jordan
17
photos
The Wonders of Petra
48
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The city of Petra in the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan is one of the marvels of the ancient world and certainly a highpoint of our trip. Our group entered the city by walking a mile-long narrow...
The Layers of Jerusalem
75
photos
Located in the Judean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea and the Dead Sea, Jerusalem is considered holy to the three major Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jerusalem is...
The Faces of Israel
26
photos
Views from Skylawn - San Mateo
29
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Skylawn Memorial Park, San Mateo, California
San Francisco - Sights of Chinatown
45
photos
Centered on Grant Avenue and Stockton Street, San Francisco's Chinatown covering 24 square blocks is the oldest in North America and the largest Chinese community outside of Asia. Established in...
Clarion Alley Mural Project
77
photos
The Clarion Alley Mural Project (CAMP) was established in October 1992 by a volunteer collective of six Mission residents: Aaron Noble, Michael O'Connor, Sebastiana Pastor, Rigo 92, Mary Gail Snyder,...
San Francisco Mission District: Balmy Alley
68
photos
Balmy Alley in the Mission District of San Francisco, has something that no other neighborhood in the city can offer: an amazing array of beautiful, well-crafted, and often thought-provoking murals...
Yosemite National Park
28
photos
Mono Lake
15
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Old Bodie
38
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Inside the Methodist church in Old Bodie. Sitting all alone in the back row of this church was like travelling back in time. In the stillness I could almost hear the pastor's voice as he delivered...
Passage of Time
28
photos
San Francisco
355
photos
Photo Journalism
28
photos
Travel Photography
116
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Pigeon Point Light Station, Pescadero, California. Photographed by Evan A. Reader in December, 2003. Perched on a cliff on the central California coast, 50 miles south of San Francisco, the 115 ft....
Nature Photography
278
photos
Ano Nuevo State Reserve
13
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Family Pictures
19
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Patchen
2
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