This was just days before we went to Oklahoma. My company’s xmas party, which was pretty rad. There wasn’t much going on, visually, apart from this. I mean, I have some portraits, but they’re not great. Monochromatic stage lighting is hard as hell to work with. That difficulty is the reason that these are all in black and white. The dominant channel (whatever color the light is) will blow out, and the rest will be ok. You can save this with black and white conversion, with the added benefit that it more closely matches what I see when I’m shooting a scene like this. Something the event organizers did wonderfully with this event: they had at least one really visual element in the evening. It may be because we’re a very media-centric company, or it may just be a stroke of luck that we didn’t have some rock band instead. I was stoked, in any case, that someting cool was going down. Later in the evening, there was much drinking and dancing, even by me, but all those photos are blurry. These make a nice set, though.
Posted on 2015-02-16T09:22:33Z GMT
Early December, and I’m skipping a few pictures only to maybe come back to them later. This was when Mary was in town, too, although I didn’t get a decent photo of her (a failure on my part). Anyway, this was the day I learned about Buckfast. This is a tonic wine for winos, I guess. In the words of Ronan, “If you drink the whole bottle, you’re going to do some crime.” I tried it, but didn’t get enough to even cause jaywalking.
Posted on 2015-02-15T07:39:43Z GMT
Cool folks, good times. This was another of those evenings that I don’t super remember for some reason, probably related to the open bar. Anyway, photos.
Posted on 2015-02-12T06:48:51Z GMT
Lots of photos in this one, because it’s an awesome place, and the photos are nice. Also, I broke out photoshop on these, to get the skies in a couple of them burned in. It’s been long enough since I used photoshop that all the tools are in slightly different places than I remember, but it’s really snappy on this machine at least. I’m babbling. Seriously, if you can, get to the de Young and have a walk around the sculpture garden, at least. The Turrell skyskape has to be experienced, as does seeing the building up close. There are a bunch of amazing sculptures, as well as a nice cafe. There’s also a Japanese tea garden which is quite nice. A fine place to spend an afternoon walking around.
Posted on 2015-02-10T07:49:27Z GMT
Yes, I know thanksgiving was almost three months ago. I’m rushing to catch up, and also I was more than a little sad that I didn’t get more pictures. It was in some ways a repeat of the year before, but that just meant a good time with good people, overeating and running to the store to buy more beer several times. The last trip, I got to the store and they’d closed. On the walk there and back, though, there was this great fog over the neighborhood. I was glad for the walk.
Posted on 2015-02-10T07:09:40Z GMT
