On Friday I took my VS186A: Documentary Photography class at Berkeley out for a hike to the Weep. It is nice to get out to the Weep; all the more so in good company. It has been a while since I visited the Weep and I was pleased to find it moist and sporting a […]

I am merging posts related to my UC Berkeley photography class into this blog. Since the fall ’05 iteration of Visual Studies 186A: Documentary Photography is focused on the South Bay landscape there was quite a bit of overlap. To narrow your view of the blog to VS186A alone just select it as a category […]

The Dumbarton Quarry gravel pit, cut into the south end of the Coyote Hills, sinks almost 300 feet below the salt pond waters. For this image I flew the kite from one of the adjacent hills. I suspect that the motorists stopping at the Dumbarton Bridge toll plaza never realize that they are adjacent to […]

Alexandre recently wrote: I was thinking upgrading my camera. Ideally, I’d like to get one before we go out in the south bay with the rest of the class. I would be willing to spend around $500 (potentially more if I can’t resist the temptation). Could you give me a few references, and the criteria […]

As I mentioned in class, the WWW-based Flickr photo sharing site is a very handy service. Using a basic membership (free) you can upload 20Mb worth of images per month and that is alot of WWW sized shots. Flickr, now a part of Yahoo, has also developed an Application Programming Interface (API) that allows you […]

While visiting the Port of Redwood City I wandered out to the edge of the marsh to check out a large develpment of multistory office buildings. At the edge of this development they were constructing (at a very slow pace according to locals) a marina in former marshland. I was particularly taken with the blask […]