Spring in the medium sized diverse city

Spring has sprung and I had my camera (both of em) ready. I don't have much to to talk about so I will let my camera do the talking (along with the captions I put under the pictures).

San Francisco is one of the most lenient cites when it comes to prosecuting graffiti "artists" so even trucks end up with "art" on them. This one happens to be in China Town.

Stuffed animals through a diffused window on the way to China Town

Donna and I went to one of the most famous Sci-Fi bookstores in the US. It's called Borderlands and it is cool. I don't really read but they have 3 hairless cats that look like aliens. This ones name is Ripley. He really liked me. The others are name Ash and Sly.

San Francisco is slowly getting rid of their newspaper vending machines in exchange for cool new ones. This seems to be where the old ones go to die. Newspaper Vending Machine Cemetery doesn't sound as scary as Pet Cemetery and it wasn't.

Here is a tree frog at the Science Academy.

Here is the cool Bio-Dome at the Academy.

The Academy features the latest in aquarium technology. You can walk through the aquarium tunnel.

Who says Photography is easy? I know it's not. It takes strong upper body strength. Sadly this kid was more impressed with my lens than his moms.

All the effort of holding Donna up in the cherry blossom tree with one arm really paid off I think.

The Sun Dial says it's Flower Time!

I told you Spring had sprung and it's springing all over the place in Golden Gate Park.

The Game Developers Conference comes to San Francisco once a year. All my friends from So-Cal come up to see me (and go to the conference). This is my friend Lea.

We hosted a big party at GDC. This is Matt. I work with him. The light makes his hair look purple but it's really more of a blueish color.

Chris James in front of the LucasArts game reel demo that was looping during our party.

Cecil often gets the DJ gigs when it's a LucasArts party.

Well thats it for now but I have more pictures queued up. Check back soon.

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