Posts Tagged ‘nikon’
Monday, August 13th, 2012
From trophygeek, a shot of the icy ether and a chilly Twin Peaks:
“Perseid meteor over Sutro Tower, San Francisco Aug 13, 2012: Set up the camera to take 8 second exposures all night and caught this large meteor as it streaked over San Francisco. The lights near the tower are cars up on Twin Peaks shining their headlights into the fog. I happened to be checking on the camera when it happened so I saw it too!”
Wow, I’m speechless:
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Me with nothing to say
You in your Autumn sweater
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Saturday, August 11th, 2012
Alls I know is that tonight, Saturday, August 11, 2012 will be your best chance all year to see a meteor shower.
What I don’t know is what the cloud / fog situation will be like, but you could see a lot of blue sky this AM so that bodes well.
Get the deets from Sarah Medina and UpOut.
Here’s what it will look like:
Perseid meteor shower, artist’s conception
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Oh wait, here’s the real deal, from Christmas Tree Road, a half-decade back, August 12th, 11:41 PM:
Canon 5D, 15mm 2.8 Fisheye, f/5.6, 5 seconds, ISO 1600
But people, you need to dress warm – gloves, beanies, etc and maybe a sleeping bag if you’re serious.
All right, see you there!
Shooting stars never stop/ even when they reach the top.
Tags: 2007, 2012, bay area, california, cam, camera, christmas tree road, clear, cloudy, crowds, Even when they reach the top, fog, foggy, free, jake garan, meteor, meter, nasa, nikon, partly, perseid, Perseids, San Francisco, shooting star, Shooting stars never stop, shower, space, space station, sutro, tower, twin peaks, Video, weather
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Monday, October 31st, 2011
Famous San Francisco street photographer Justin Beck has bounced back from losing his camera on the mean Streets of San Francisco, looks like. He’s got another Nikon to work with so that’s nice.
Check it, a canary yellow streetcar.
Is this an album cover?
Via JRB – click to expand
Poor pooch. Daijoobu, daijobu. Gambate!
Tags: 1057, 1948, 2011, afraid, assault, balboa, battery, bay area, black power salute, broken, california, camera, cameras, canary, Cincinnati, cop, d90, Daijoobu, digital, district, dog, dslr, Gambate, grate, green, hands, hippie, hipster, images, inner, justin beck, justin ryan beck, leash, Muni, nervous, Nervous Pup, nikon, occupy, Photographer, photographs, photography, police, richmond, robbery, San Francisco, SFPD, slr, Station, steal, stoeln, stolen, subway, theft, thief, twitter, yellow
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Well, I guess I’m late to this one, but anyway, in case you didn’t see it:
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Plus five points for GadgetTrak House.
Tags: 2011, california, d3, data, exif, find, found, Gadget Trak, GadgetTrak, john heller, lens, lenses, lost, nikon, number, Photographer, San Francisco, serial, stolen, track, tracking
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Monday, August 15th, 2011
Here it is:
“What a “Shooting Star” looks like #FromSpace Taken yesterday during Perseids Meteor Shower Thanks @JakeGaran 4 cam http://t.co/3TsuUnZ“
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And this is what the same meteor shower looks like at night from Twin Peaks – not as bright I’m afraid. The reverse angle, so to speak:
But a meteor’s a meteor, right?
Look to the sky. Look to the sky. See the Wonders
“The world is my oyster…….. Ha ha ha ha ha. … Shooting stars never stop. Even when they reach the top.”
Tags: 2011, astronaut, bay area, california, cam, camera, Even when they reach the top, jake garan, meteor, meter, nasa, nikon, perseid, Perseids, San Francisco, shooting star, Shooting stars never stop, shower, space, space station, Video
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Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Do you know how much bad art we pay for? I mean, there’s lots and lots of (government-funded and government-mandated) bad art around town, let me tell you.
OTOH, popular photographer Justin Ryan Beck does his good art, his street photography, for free for one and all – isn’t that nice?
Or least it was nice, until yesterday, when the digital camera he was using got stolen out of his hands in the Richmond District at four-something PM in the afternoon:
“I’m OK but was just robbed at the corner of Arguello and Balboa. Talked to cops. Time for a new camera I guess. :/”
Here’s his last photo. It appears he’ll be on a break for a while.
Oh well.
How can we get a DSLR, preferably a new Nikon along with a wide anglish lens or two, back into the hands of JRB, you know, where it rightfully belongs?
Tags: assault, balboa, battery, broken, cameras, digital, district, dslr, hands, images, inner, justin beck, justin ryan beck, nikon, Photographer, photographs, photography, police, richmond, robbery, SFPD, slr, Station, stoeln, theft, thief, twitter
Posted in art, crime, photography | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010
Just try to use your biggish digital single-lens-reflex camera on the streets of Kuwait these days. It ain’t easy, brother.
Now, I don’t think that you could ban DSLR use in San Francisco. There’d be a rebellion or something.
Cause if something happens, it didn’t happen unless it was recorded somehow – that’s how we look at it.
Our Folsom Street Fair 2009 was a great day for walkies with the slave, past the guy with the Nikon, past the guy with the Canon, past the Leather Etc…(!) store…:
via mikey baratta PHOTOGRAPHIC
Just be on the look-out for this guy. I think he’s up to something:
Tags: ban, banned, bdsm, big, camera, cannon, canon, City, dslr, fair, folsom, interchangable, kwait, lens, lens reflex, lenses, mideast, nikon, police, privacy, single, slave, slr, street
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
David Yu wants you to check out his latest: a time lapse video taken from Yerba Buena Island.
Try it at 1080p and full screen.
You can see the eddies caused by the outgoing tide passing the Bay Bridge’s towers and anchorage in the main channel, so that’s pretty cool.
Good job David Yu.
Tags: 1080p, 2010, bay bridge, David Yu, nikon, Photograph, San Francisco, sunset, time lapse, treasure island, Video, yerba buena
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
San Francisco’s Folsom Street Fair 2009 went down last month, but when you shoot film(!), as photographer Mikey Baratta does when he uses his Hasselblad(!) camera, well, it takes a while to get prints back from the FotoMat and scanned for uploading.
As here. It was a great day for walkies with the slave, past the guy with the Nikon, past the guy with the Canon, past the Leather Etc…(!) store. Click to expand:
via mikey baratta PHOTOGRAPHIC
Ah, memories.
Tags: 2010, area, camera, canon, etc, fair, Festival, folsom, Folsom Street Fair, leather, master, mikey baratta, nikon, photographic, San Francisco, slave, soma, south of market, street
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