What's been going on? October 21st Update

Hey all,

I hope you enjoying the One A Days. I wanted to do an update on what is going on now so the One A Day will have to wait until tomorrow. And besides Apparently I didn't do anything interesting on October 21st over the past 7 years.

We can start with another Critical Mass photo. I have talked about this before. Every last Friday of every month bike riders take over one popular rout and shut down traffic for a few mile ride. They have a point (bikes have as much right to the road as cars) but they also expect extra rights especially on that night.

Donna at a very old China Town Bar. The bar is called Li Po Lounge. We were seeing a friend's band that night.

This is the sound guy at the Li Po Lounge. The venue is lit by about 2 lights. You can see one here.

Here is someone having a beer before the show. This photo also showcases the other light.

An SF sign so you know where you are.

Here is the band Have Special Power (Formerly The Lag). I guess there was one more light on them so that brings us to a total of 3 lights. SF is so green. The Drummer is Chris. He is the friend we went to see. Chris works at Lucas with me.

1/3rd of Have Special Power. Every band needs a base guitarist.


We were worried that Arnold (our governor) was going to shut down state parks so we went to Angel Island. We didn't want to miss it.

We hiked to the highest peak on Angel Island. It was a nice walk. This was taken before we got to the fog.

A shot half way up down into the main bay on Angel Island.

The hike was very nice. Angel Island caught fire about 8 months ago but this part of the trail showed no sign of it.

There are many military buildings on the island. This is a door to one of the buildings that they use as the museum. It was closed for some reason. Maybe Arnold.

Here is one of the buildings there. It appears to be burnt and falling over. We didn't go inside.

This is Ed. I have worked with him for almost all of my time in Video Games. This was taken on his last day at Lucas. He is moving over to Sega.

This is my special Manhattan being made at the Presidio Social Club. We bought Ed drinks here to celebrate his last day.

We went to The Mission District in San Francisco to go to one of my friends photography gallery show. There are many old theaters in The Mission that are closed. I spotted some cool old theater chairs in an alley next to a theater that is being renovated. I wish I could have taken a few for the apartment.

Here is a shot of shoes hanging from power lines in The Mission. I liked they way the shoes lit up from the lights on the street.

Donna and I took the dogs to Tahoe for the weekend. We had a great time. Here we are on a 3 mile hike.

Here is a cool tree we saw on the hike.

There was a dog beach on the lake near where we stayed. The dogs had a great time running around off leash. It has been a while for them. There is really no place safe for them to run off leash in The City.


We went to Tahoe to celebrate both of our birthdays and our 15 year wedding anniversary. here we are drinking our fancy Bloody Marys waiting for our fancy table at fancy Ciera Steak and Chophouse in the Mont Bleu Resort.

Here are our "0n the house" chocolate dipped strawberries on a plate over dry ice. It was very good and a nice surprise.

That's it for now. Enjoy the One A Days until my next big post. Currently I am taking an ILM Photography Class so I am sure I will have photos from that to post shortly.

Jon and Donna

A quickie with more to come....

So things have been busy and I have a ton of pictures to edit and post. Here are some that I gathered just before events went wild. I thought I would post these and then follow up with bigger posts that include more visiting friends, more events and festivals and a trip to Nebraska (yes Nebraska). I have 1200 pictures to go through from the Nebraska trip alone so there will be quite a bit of pictures to see soon. Enjoy this quickie and look forward to a few full posts coming soon.

Lucha Libre masks in The Mission

A nice shot of a bike rider and his Fixie in The Mission

Sunday Streets is an event put on by The City. They close major streets to traffic and open them up to biking, walking, rollerblading and any other form of fun transportation you can think of. Vendors come out of the woodwork to sell you all kind of fun things. They started this last summer and I am sure will continue it in the following years. I only took one picture at this event last summer and it can be found in this post.

Dana (one of Donna's college friends) came to visit us and we had a great time. Here we are at the Ferry Building enjoying Boccalone Salame.

Here is a nice silhouette of Donna and Dana with Treasure Island in the background.

Donna and Dana enjoying Dana's Iphone at The Irish Bank.

A good shot of Donna at one of our favorite Koran joints.

Donna enjoying a Korean BBQ rib.

A fun shot of one of the tall buildings in The Financial District.

That's all for now but check back soon. Thanks for stopping by.

Jon and Donna

Color in the City

It's our summer in San Francisco. The weather is awesome and we have been getting out. I have had my trusty camera with me and got some cool shots. Some of these shots were actually taken from a work assignment. 3 of us from work got to spend the entire day taking reference shots. It was great. We ran all over the Mission and then went through the Financial up to China town. I took 700 shots that day (over 6 gigs).

First The Mission with its gritty yet pretty streets and alleys.

This alley touched all of our senses (especially our sense of smell)

This turned out way better than I could ever hope

Almost all of these murals were found in one alley in The Mission

A Street Collage

Someone spent some time on this one

The No Loitering Sign makes this one for me

Luckily there were some How To signs posted for beginners

Cool!

Mixed Media

Missile Command Space Invaders and My Pretty Pony all in one

For Rent

This is an old theater in The Mission

We had lunch at La Taqueria

I had to get a people shot in while I was at it

This is right on the edge of The Financial heading into China Town

Same here

This was just being in the right place at the right time of day

Time to Shop as the clock says

An interesting mixture of East meets West

I liked the color in this one too

More China Town beauty

The other night I decided to go home and try to catch the sunset at this location. The sun sets behind you and all of the windows on Russian Hill reflect the light.

Walking home at sunset with a camera is slow going

I had to stop every 20 feet to take a picture

At sunset there is still light but the lights start coming on so you can catch cool things

Donna and I were waiting for a bus and I saw this going down. They were giving themselves tattoos. I think they were on something because I tried to be somewhat stealthy until I realized they were hyper focused on what they were doing. My guess is Meth. One of its traits is it makes you really focused on what you are doing. You can also see a scar or track on the guys inner arm from needles more than likely.

Hope that last picture didn't bum you out. It is some of the color we get here in the city.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jon and Donna