matt's pictures

Last Team Lunch With EY

Man, 00 pizza. Also, emotions. I miss these guys. A good bunch, one of the best bosses ever, and a really great work environment. I’m constantly reminded of just how lucky I am.

Posted on 2013-11-25T06:22:22Z GMT

This was one of the nights where we met out at the Bitter End, a bar in the Richmond. Decent food, good beers, great decor. It’s a perfect dive bar, and far enough afield that it’s a pretty good crowd, not all hyper-startup-world. Not to get all down on startups, I mean, I work at one, but there’s something about the scene that makes me think it’s all going to come crashing down eventually. Maybe I’m wrong, and that’s oldthink. I do like to get away from it sometimes, though.

Posted on 2013-11-22T07:11:58Z GMT

Engagement Karaoke Party

Because we didn’t have any wedding celebration planned here in SF, and because we’ve accumulated some friends here, we decided we needed to do smoething with them to celebrate the then upcoming nuptials. Karaoke was the natural choice. The only other thing I need to say is that I missed a couple members of the party, because they were sitting next to me; Demetrius and Christine, sorry about that.

Posted on 2013-11-21T15:37:28Z GMT

two more portaits

Man, portraiture. The world at large may have infinite variety and beauty (see, e.g., all of the work of Adams, Weston, the other Adams, Paul Caponigro, etc, etc) but man, to me, people are so much more interesting and dynamic. There’s so much depth to a portrait, so many things that people automatically read and project onto the work that doesn’t happen with landscape pictures. It’s more difficult, because in addition to managing the light, the exposure, the framing, composition, and timing, people move all the time. I have a feeling that some photographers gravitate toward static subjects because they can’t deal with the difficulties. Having said that, I just spent two hours glued to the plane window, shooting pictures of the passing mountains and clouds. I do both, because I can’t refrain from taking a picture when I see one.

Posted on 2013-11-19T21:50:41Z GMT

last ride in the daylight

As the winter makes the days shorter, my rides ended closer and closer to sunset, and then I’d arrive at the beach at sunset, and then finally, the last couple times, it’s been dark when I got there. This was somewhere in the middle of all that, near dark with the fog rolled in. Just fantastic. Can you tell I’m looking forward to getting back?