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Our feature stories reflect a wide range of interests. We might discuss how to make your own photo book in one while another reviews a gallery exhibition. One might discuss shopping strategies while another knocks down misconceptions about inkjet printing.

You'll find some slide shows in here, too, as well as multiple-story features like the one showing you how to cover a wedding.

In short, there's a lot to explore here. A few could be listed in more than one category. For example, the line between what's a Beginners article and what's Advanced is "redrawn" every now and then.

We've separated the occasional pieces into the Holiday category to make it easy to find the often oddly-named somewhat off-topic pieces we write when we're not working. And while we don't list our Site Tweaks in the Features section of our side bar, we do present them here as a separate section to make it easy to see how we've developed the site.

We've also added a Full List of everything in case categories confuse you as much as they do us.

Things can be hard to find. So poke around. All of them, we promise, are a good read. And often amply illustrated, as well.

  2024  

Yucca

Autumn Agave

The Unscanner

Cropping a Neighborhood

Dancing Cactus

The First Day of Spring

Early Magnolia

  2023  

Christmas Tree Shadow

Play Ball

Love the Photos of Your Kids But

Scale

The Ladder

Rust

A Meditation on Patio Bricks

  2022  

Branches

Fall Flowers

Clouds Over Diablo

Cultivation

Walls

Cutting Edge

A Spire

The Rusted Can

Restoring a Digital Image

Making Inkjet Prints Again

Two Simple Edits

Chasing a Sunset

A Carpet of Fallen Leaves

  2021  

Clay Pots

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

Tamalpais Sunset

Learning the Game

Vacant Lot

Double Take

  2020  

Downhill From Here

The Hedge

Coming Apart

'Discovering' New Tools

Reopening Schools

Fireworks

Closed

  2019  

Are You Paying Attention?

Porcelain Dolphin

At the Doctor's Office

Holding the Fort

Three Pewter Vases

Morning Light

Saving Time

Two Views

  2018  

City Skyline

Bird Bath Through The Fence

Scenic Spot

The Shadow Of A Succulent

Sensor Cleaning

Turning Around Once In A While

Shoes On The Sill: Granulation

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Aspect Ratios

  2017  

Fiat Lux

A Monochrome Moment

The Art Of Cropping

Moving The Earth

Cutting Out Carbs

A Couple Of Private Postings

Here's Looking At You

Storm Clouds On The Ridge

The One-Eyed Man

  2016  

Christmas Day User Interface Fail

Not Your Ordinary Garden Gnome

'Are You Being True?'

Under Construction: Editing An Image

An Asymmetrical City Panorama

Cloudscapes

The Year Of The Monkey

Super Bowl Week

  2015  

Fall Color

An Old Lesson

On Shooting Sunsets

A Slice Of Beach

How To Resolve A Little Volume Issue

Improving On Autofocus

Should You Edit Every Photo?

Zooming In With A Scan

A Smartphone Misbehaves At The Museum

Around Town

  2014  

Getting Your Camera's Shutter Count

A Checklist For Post Processing

A Mother's Rose From The Wedding

A Follow-Up: Two 'Secrets'

Blowin' In The Wind

  2013  

Photoshop's Most Used Tool: Crop

Taking Your Photo Collection Inventory

Can You Hierarchy?

Improving Your Craft

Getting Started In Photography

What's A Prime Lens?

  2012  

The Three Angels of Exposure

  2024  

A Monochrome Victorian

Staircase

Cityscape 2024

A Gnarly Shot

That Iris Again

The Crop

A Portable Negative Viewer

Trash Can

A Smile From the Past

A Backdoor Restoration

Neural Edits of an Obituary Portrait

Putting Together a Photo Tribute

  2023  

Shadow

Looking North

Urban Trellis

Amber Waves

Foxglove

Blossoms in May

Mount Tam

  2022  

Late Rose

The Moon One Night

Breaching a Gate

On Visualization

The Fog as Prop

Before Leaving

Cherry Laurel

  2021  

A Tale of Two Shots

Take Two: Signs of Life

Broken Limbs

An Apple Blossom

About That Lemon (and Deconvolution Sharpening)

Anatomy of a Lemon

A Storm Passes Quietly

Seclusion

Manhole Cover

  2020  

Untold Stories

Kissing

Twin Peaks: A B&W Conversion

Making It Miniature

A Burst of Roadside Yellow

A Hard Place

Clouds in Isolation

Keeping Your Distance

Being Held

Mount Diablo in the Clouds

  2019  

Tamalpais

A Difficult Edit

A Deep Thought on Inspiration

September Apples

Climbing the Ladder

On the Road

The Hollowed Out Log

Zoning With Zonin

Summer Rose

The Leaf

The Web

The Brick

You Know My Name...

Monetization

Panorama of Alcatraz

Houses on a Hill

The Keys To Lost Locks

  2018  

Angels At The Gate

Woozy Wednesday

The Ravishes Of Time

Laffing Sal

Shooting South Again

The Hills of San Francisco

Wood

Lock & Key

How To Salvage Reds

In Progress: The Way Up

Modern Composition

Color Pop In Photoshop

Shooting South

  2017  

Making A Custom Border For Exposure X3

Taking The Calla Lily Cure

The Art Of Composition

Fall Colors

Halloween Decorations Go Digital

One Fabulous Toucan

New Skyline Artificially Aged

A Different Angle

San Francisco Bay Pano

A Night & Day Lesson In Exposure

Beyond The Velvet Rope

Running On Rims

Je T'Aime

Partial Pano: The City Under Clouds

On Image Editing Software

An Island In the Middle Of The City

  2016  

How To Make An HTML Email Holiday Card

The Art Of Editing

Something Completely Different (But Familiar)

Cityscape

Optimism, Unfathomable Odds

In The Bag

Downhill

Some Days Are Like That

Solving That Adobe Generator Problem -- Again

Manikin Working...

Revisiting Two Images

The Post Processing Post

Revisiting That Golf Course

  2015  

A Better Panorama

An HTML Video Project

This Afternoon's Spectacle

A Storm Rolls Through

The Golden Gate

Tintypes In The Digital Age

Animated People Watching

Moon Over The Pacific

Our Guide To San Francisco

Focus Is An Option

The Last Turners

Shooting Fireworks

Building A Staircase Step By Step

Aquatic Park Panorama

Leica And Apple And DNG! Oh My!

The Split-Toning Solution

A Favorite Image Digitized

Bakers Beach Sunset

A Shot In The Dark

Creating A Party Printing Folder

Cityscape

Why Is This Man Smiling?

  2014  

Autumn Leaves in OpticsPro 10, Piccure+

That Bouquet At Sunset

A View Of The Bridge

Editing the Beach Chalet Murals

Jardine: A Workflow Essay

Solving A Photoshop Generator Error

Notes on Copyright

An Indiscretion

Solving A Revel Problem With Lightroom

Solving A Photoshop Generator Problem

Safeguarding The Integrity Of Your Photos

The XZ-1 And The Wall

A Blossom Blooms

Devising A Backup Strategy

Two Portraits On Presidents' Day

Half Empty, Half Full

San Francisco Bay Panorama

  2013  

Sending Small Raw Files Without Lightroom

Painting A Photo

Why The Cat Runs Away With The Bride

Playing With Aspect Ratios

Our Secret Backup & Archiving Strategy In Action

  2024  

Black & White in Color

A Streetcar Going Nowhere

Mike's Olympic Coverage

Aging a Portrait With Photoshop

The Curse of Double Prints

Stepping Out

Baby Shoes

Free Art

The Culture of Undo

Following Directions

Sometimes Your Heart Breaks

The Photo Sleuth

Absolute Power

  2023  

Expertise

Remember Magazines?

Pillows

Who's on First

Free Cone Day

A Tearjerker

Ciao

A Dark and Stormy Night

  2022  

Putting Up the Tree

An Appellation

Red Zone

Instead of a Lunar Eclipse

The Requisite Sunset

Bookcase Graveyard

Sufferin' Succotash!

Not Elliot's Bike

Spanish Dagger

Two Cannons, One Letter (and Yoda)

Welcoming the Week

Rocks and Lantana

Papers

Can't Wait Until Winter

The Finish Line

Gardening Day

Hugs & Kisses

Popcorn Roses

Taking a Different Approach

Oxygen

Three Illustrative Edits

Getting What You Want

The Burning Bush

Stuffed

The Left-Out Decoration

  2021  

You Can Lead a Horse to Water

Another iPhone Avalanche

A Steep Climb

Summer Weather

Always Good Advice

Wildlife

Friends in High Places

Earth Day

Stumped

A Modern Monument

Mondays Aren't All Bad

  2020  

A Snapshot of Joy

Angel Wings

An Alternative Christmas Card

Sunset Nouveau

Sidewalk Succulent

The Kitchen Sink

Cookie Quarantine Ends

The Web We Weave

How We Celebrated Street Photography Day

A Sulphur Sky

About Those MLB Cutouts

Lichen

An Orchid a Day

In Praise of Green (and Red)

An Urban Scene

Always Take a Camera With You

Society Garlic

Escape

Peruvian Lilies

The Wet Geranium

Ode to Rosemary

Macro Mushroom

Teacher Appreciation Day

Ice Plant

A Tiny Miracle

Asparagaceae

Attached Housing

Another Red Chair

The Other Red Chair

Old Bones

Caffe Trieste

A Blue & Gold Evening

  2019  

As Dawn Dissipates

2019 Taken to the Cleaners

Crab Season Opens After Whales Migrate

Congrats, Boch!

Friday the Thirteenth

Bad Advice

The Unicorn We Know

So Much For Spring

Spring Poppy

And Then There Are Days Like This

There Will Be Days Like This

Sailing

Surviving The Morning

A Reflective Moment

  2018  

The Big Lunch

Our Daily Bread

The First Day Of School

Working Late

Save It!

A Thank You To Our Subscribers

On The Plus Side

Let the Games Begin

Pinocchio

Lenses Are Generational

A Castle

A Rain Gauge

Kids Playing

  2017  

Reciting From Memory

The Power Of Words

A Thank You To Our Subscribers

Take A Seat On A Share Chair

All Smiles

Caption Contest

Some Days Are Like That

Stories Not Told

Breaking News

There Are Two Sides To Every Mushroom

Going Places

  2016  

Along For The Ride

The View East

When Evening Falls

Over The Rainbow

Morning Light

Happy Birthday, Claude!

Turning Over The Camera Odometer

It's Monday (Get Through It)

A Succulent Image

A Sunday Morning In Bed

The 'Purple' Cow

Any Questions?

The Finals Simulated In Photoshop, OpticsPro

Two Old, Inspiring Polaroids

Not All Mondays Are The Same

Everyone Has Something To Frame

Keep Shooting

Off The Grid

Crab Season Opens

A Thank You To Our Subscribers

Another Day At The Office

Game On

Wells Fargo Prime

  2015  

How To Photograph Christmas Tree Lights

An Old Storm

What A Photographer Does

Homage To The Square

When Only An Emporer Will Do

Half A Million Celebrate Champs In Oakland

A Box Of Chocolates

On Redundancy

Two Cameras At The Museum

A Modest Proposal For Museums

As the Bouquets Fade

Bouquets To Art 2105

Half Full, Completely Empty

The Best Kind Of Camera

The Ideal Reader

  2014  

The Best Camera At The Wedding

The Perfect Camera Case You Already Own

A Chain Link Fence

Men Working

Wish You Were Here

Having Heart

Shooting Dice

  2013  

Auld Lang Syne, My Friend!

Anything Your Heart Desires

Photographers & Comedians

An Evening Out

Portrait Of The Photographer As A (Very) Young Man

How To Read A Photo

Avoiding 'The Chair'

  2012  

Wait a Minute ...

  2024  

A Macro to Install ExifTool

Time Machine Diary

Another Approach

Solving Photoshop's Folder Follies

Calculating an Aspect Ratio

Quick Tip: Expanding Our Filter by Rating Macro

Quick Tip: Automating Lightroom Rating Displays

A Keypad for Photoshop

Quick Fix: Photoshop's GPU Complaint

Ingester Gets Some AI Help

Executor With a Camera

  2023  

Let It Snow

Quick Fix: EVF

An iPhone Sunset

Rip Van Winkle Buys an iPhone 15

Ingestor Adds Image Capture

Ingestor Goes Autopilot

Archiving a Year to DVDs

Quick Fix: The Morning Fog

Resolving a DNP Driver Problem

Emergency Fix: The SD Card From Hell

Automating Ingestor

Quick Tip: Photoshop's Corrupted Droplets

The Trek to Ventura

We Calibrate the M2 MacBook Pro

Generative Fill Test Drive

It's a DIY World

Our Refurb Arrives

Prepping For a New Mac

The Easel and the Typewriter

Ingestor Evolves With AppleScript

Macro: Extract Text From an Image

Free Fix: The Stuck Pixel

A Visit to the Optometrist

Two Quick Fixes

Quick Tip: Restoring Tool Behavior

Lightning Strikes Twice

Disaster Recovery

Repairing a Nikkor Zoom

How to Pack a Lens

  2022  

Fixing a Nikkor Zoom

Another Sanity-Saving Keyboard Maestro Macro

Moving to Monterey

Go to Cart

Installing ImageMagick With PerlMagick

Lightroom: Solving the 'Chromium Safe Storage' Dialog Issue

It's a Miracle: CanoScan 9000F Runs on Catalina

Solving Our Own Problems

On Artificial Intelligence

  2021  

Working Around Photoshop's Guide on White Problem

Using Exiftool as an Image Organizer

  2020  

The Farallons

Apple Announces ProRaw

Resurrecting a Dead Mouse

Reviewing the Toolbox

  2019  

Napkin: A Keyboard Maestro Macro With Photo Filters

Now Showing

Using Keyboard Maestro For Imaging and Other Things

  2018  

Another Week of Shutter Actuations

Sign Of The Times

Archiving As A Constant

How To Extract A JPEG From A Raw File

Textcavator

  2017  

Leaves

Adapting A Background To Your Environment

Building Macros For DxO Optics Pro

Of Fireworks We Singe

Another Problem Automation Solves

Two Slide Show Fails

Installing Sierra

How To Advertise

Gear Lessons Learned From Golf

After The Deluge

  2016  

The Quality Of Light

Swatting A Lightroom Export Bug

Classic Battle Green Under Gray Skies

The New MacBook Pro Conundrum

Rags To Rags

Tools Of The Trade

The Life Expectancy Of Software

On To El Capitan

Sneak Peak: OpticFilm 135 Kodachrome Scans

Sneak Peak: OpticFilm 135 Ektachrome Scans

  2015  

Alien Skin Software Introduces Ambitious Exposure X

One Cure For Ingestion

Speaking Of Clouds...

Before You Buy Another Camera

A Peek At HP's Instant Ink

A Fresh Look AT HP's Paper, Ink Technology

Solving Two Software Problems

It's Not All Sunshine

Surfing Before The Web

Back To Work

More On Our Lightroom CC Rotation Problem

Goodbye, Spell Catcher (Sob). Hello, Yosemite!

  2014  

Preview: Exposure 7

Mike's Free Photo Calendar Kit

Adobe Shape As A Camera App

The iPhone Ecosystem Expands

Photoshop Scripting After Flash

Updating To Photoshop CC 2014

An Overview Of Creative Cloud 2014

Adding Sliding Images To Your Web Site

How To Modify Lytebox Graphics

Spring Forward

  2013  

The Trick To Safely Assembling A Softbox

The Restorers

Scanning Slides With A Camera

Can YesVideo Save Your Life?

Serious Camera Advice

Mavericks Diary

A DIY Camera Finder

Inkjet Printing Misconceptions

The Big Deal With Big Printers

Camera Reviews & Photography

Going Beyond The Wigglegram

An Old $8 Rexatar Zoom Survives Into The Digital Age

The Old Gray Mare

Springing Back After The Fact

The Dentist Shoots, We Smile

  2024  

Site Tweak: Find Improved

Site Tweak: AI Bots Blocked

Site Tweak: Finding Stuff

Site Tweak: A QR Code

  2023  

Site Tweak: Site Search

Site Tweak: Enlarge on Hover

Site Tweak: Twitter Account

  2022  

Site Tweak: Keyboard Glyphs as Keys

  2021  

Site Tweak: Autofocus Find

Site Tweak: Calendar

Site Tweak: Brave Search and More

Site Tweak: Updated Subscription Options

Site Tweak: Counting Matinees

Site Tweak: Google Text Search

Site Tweak: Feature Index Year Dividers

Site Tweak: Slide Show Index

  2020  

Site Tweak: Image Search

Site Tweak: Improved Full Text Search

Site Tweak: Word Count

Site Tweak: Form Buttons

Site Tweak: More Glossary Entries, Better Count

Site Tweak: Glossary Grows Again

Site Tweak: Expanded Glossary

Site Tweak: A Glossary

Site Tweak: A Look Back

Site Tweaks: Footnotes, Content Alerts

  2019  

Site Tweak: Highlights

Site Tweak: Interactive Editing Details

Site Tweak: Expanded Editorial Counts

Site Tweak: Story Counts

  2018  

Site Tweak: Gear Specs

Site Tweak: Dealing With Common Errors

Site Tweak: Scrolling Headline Pages

Site Tweak: Of Scrollbars And Buttons

Site Tweak: Ridiculous Revision To A Silly Decision

Site Tweak: Expanded Calendar

Site Tweaks: Two Minor Improvements

  2017  

Site Note: The Year In Review?

Site Tweak: Longer Horn Tweets

Site Tweak: Recent Releases

Site Tweak: Index Left Margin

Site Tweak: Carousel Navigation

Site Tweak: Send A Scoop

Site Tweak: JSON Feed Images

Site Tweak: Calendar Submissions

Site Tweak: A JSON Feed

Site Tweak: Month Subheads

Site Tweak: Calendar Archive

A Lesson In Software Development

  2016  

Site Tweak: Affiliate Ads

Site Tweak: Ad Server Juggling

Two Tiny Site Tweaks

Site Tweak: Thumbnailing The Obits

Site Tweak: Index Navigation

Site Tweak: Last Updated

Site Tweak: Table Of Contents Links

Site Tweak: A Little More Responsive

  2015  

Two Site Tweaks: Gift Cards, Phone CSS

Site Tweak: A Calendar

Site Tweak: Polls

Site Tweak: Google Added To Search Options

  2014  

Designing A Site Navigation Solution

Late Night Install With Site Tweaks

A Few Site Tweaks

One Of Those Days

Revisions, Revisions

Everyone Loves A Parade (the carousel)

More Links

Adding Sliding Images To Your Web Site

Another Site Tweak

Two Tiny Tweaks

Another Text Search Improvement

  2013  

Tweaking The Site

An Improved Text Search

Top Stories Ticker

How To Chase Updates Here

Tidying Up

Our Recommended Products Page

Comments Come Alive

  2012  

How To Enjoy 'Photo Corners'

A Comment on Comments

  2024  

Christmas Cactus

The Bookcase

Why It's Called the Pacific

Tired

Bus Stop Sunset

Pennies From Heaven

Inhospitable Environment

Reinforced Masonry

PSA: Vaccination Time

Simulated Double Vision

A Collection of Droopheads

View From the Seventh Floor

Room With a View

Mr. Head

Take the Hint

Loving the World

Propagating a Rose

A Grateful City

White and Red

Bush Street

Addio, Pollini

Ice Plant

Red Hot Poker

January Sunset

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Down the Corridor

Saints Peter & Paul

It's 2024!

  2023  

December Sunset

A Belated Beaujolais Nouveau

The Burghers of Calais

Through the Trunks

The Photos We Take

The Pink Rose

Yo-Yo Ma, the Natural World and Our Common Nature

Evening Clouds

Japanese Maple

New Construction

Tow Truck

Et Tu?

Spring Hath Sprung

A Sunset After All

All Flowers Fade

Fog

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Twin Peaks

Caregiver

It's 2023!

  2022  

The Heavens

A Milestone

The Sky Is Not Falling

Beaujolais Nouveau

Election Day

Clouds Over Mount Tamalpais

The Changing Landscape

Upon Reflection

The Sparkling Bay

A Clear View

The New Door

Rejects? We Don't Have Any Rejects

Improved Meyer Lemon

The Music of Echoes

Youth Must Be Served

The Meaning of Colors

Urban Forestry

Blossoms on the Apple Tree

Dolls on Portola

Springing Up

Una Selva Oscura

No Place Like Home

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Steel Corner

Sky on Fire

The Undemolished

January 6

It's 2022!

  2021  

Looking Back

Before & After the Storm

Our Funny Anniversary

Beaujolais Nouveau

Flowering Despite the Cold

The Old Bolt

Against the Dark

Dramatic Horizon

An Eerie Sunset

Climbing onto Catalina

On Reflection

The Morning After

Evening's End

The Mural Continues

Before Day's End

Twenty Years Ago

Opportunity

The Fence Weathers

Pinecone

Flowering Rosemary

The Extraordinary Ordinary

Retro? Not Going Back Quite That Far

Wild Cherries

Pinholed

Drought

Roots

The Eye of the Beholder

The Promise of Another Day

The Jury Returns

Early Cherry Blossoms

Skylights

Renovate

Cold Sky

Unreal Sunset

The Chandelier Plant

Ferlinghetti, 1919-2021

A Crown of Clouds

Free

Photo of the Day

Promises

Winter Cityscape

The First Sunset of 2021

It's 2021!

  2020  

Winter Berries

Art in the Wild

Beyond the Sea

The Season of Giving

Life Among the Ashes

Checking Photo Corners With Blacklight

Persistence

Darkness After Dawn

Smoke Without Mirrors

The Overlook

The Patio at Night

Curfew Again

Curfew

Justice

The Orchid

Pride of Madeira

A Bright Spot

Signs of Life

An Invisible Man

Hovering Clouds

A Few Video Chat Tips

The Empty Ocean

Minna Street

On a Clear Day

Low Tide

Delighted

Auschwitz

A Storm Passes

Cityscape 2020

It's 2020!

  2019  

The Difference a Day Makes

Out of Order

Candelabra

Submerged

An Ordinary Sunset

Casting a Ballot

Beauty Briefly Burning Bright

Beaters

Sunday Sunset

The Mind Makes the Picture

Frayed

Old Hand

Summer Solstice

A Colorized Portrait Redefines Machado de Assis

Truth Idealized

The Florist's Van

Facts Online

How Was Your Weekend?

Apple Blossoms

The Giving Tree

A Deep Thought On Camera Reviews

Angry Sky, Happy Clouds

A Model Neighborhood

High Winds

Rain

First Sunset Of A New Year

It's 2019!

  2018  

Night And Day

The Paparazzo Story

Saved By The Rain

'Unhealthy Air' Today

Smoke And The Moon

November Sunset

The Midterm Election

The Petrified Forest of Software Development

The iMac At 20

The Politics In Photography

Is The Print Primary?

A Photo For A Poet

Flying Above The Storm

After Lunch

Happy

Our First Calendar Update of 2018

It's 2018!

  2017  

A Canopy of Red Clouds

An Autumn Dawn

The Sky On Fire

A Smoky Sunset Miles Away

Time After Time

Photography As An Art

The Skyline At Noon

Smoke, Fire, Friends

New Kid On The Block

The End Of A Sad Day

Utility Box Murals

Jerry Pournelle

Labor Day

Life's A Small Glass Of Glass Cherries

Cradle To Grave

Summer Fog

Fleishman On HEIF, HEVC

The Old Pier

Cityscape

A New Sidewalk

Accidents Happen

A Crown of Clouds

An Old Photo

A Marketing Lesson

Wherefore Art Thou?

Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall

The Old Sill

Of Violins And Cameras

Late Afternoon Skyscape

Dancing Clouds

Sunrise, Sunset

Today's Lesson

  2016  

It's Always You

Yesterday

Houses

Relax

At Day's End

Lips, And The Night Goes

Warning: Twin Peaks Roadway Reconfigured

Avoiding Digital Eye Strain

Election Day

Something's In The Oven...

Alone In The World

Four Of A Kind

A Dog's Life

  2015  

If Dreams Come True

Testing, Testing...

The Rain-Washed City

The Last Day Of Summer

Going With The Flow

A Distraction

Infinity On Monday

Bodie: A Photography Throwback

Alternately, Above The Summit

Another Solution To Adobe's 'No Internet Connection' Problem

At The Summit

Life Is Full Of Detours

Can Decay Be Beautiful?

Men Working...

Pedal To The Metal

Telling Time

Portals to the Past

A Storm Passing By

Photoshop Turns 25

A Salute To Bob Simon And David Carr

Day's End

It's 2015!

  2014  

After A Night Of Rain

The Storm At Sunset

Pennies From Heaven

A Discussion With Piccure+'s Lui

A Night At The Holy City Zoo

Outside 'Outside Lands'

Do Dye Sub Prints Fade?

Lossy DNG: Heresy Or The New JPEG?

The Aftermath

A Midweek Moment

Stopping To Smell The Flowers

Why Should You Suffer?

Taking Your Smartphone To The Doctor

A Pointed Nose

A Literary Magazine For Photographers

Priorities

Art Appreciation

Teaching

  2013  

Say Au Revoir But Not Goodbye To Candlestick

Never Done

Using Someone Else's Camera

A Beautiful Day

Fifty Years After

Nadar's Lesson On Photography

Appearances Are Everything

Shooting The Minister

A Trip To The Store

The Fiber Optic Game

'Because They Marched'

Perspective

Kodachrome, Browsers, Color, Memories

The Secret To Success

Fluency, LeBron, Chumash, Sign & So On

Photography Does Not Come In A Bottle

Carrying On About Carry-On

Chicago Stanley Cup Victory In 2,000 Words

Two Simple Lessons

The Panic of 2013 -- Accessing Your Work

Roger Ebert On Image Composition And Life

A Modest Proposal For The Creative Suite

How Sweet Is Pellegrin?

  2024  

Merry Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Indigenous Columbus Day

Labor Day

The Fourth Divided by Nine

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2023  

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2023

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

A Holiday For Everyone

Labor Day

The Fog on the Fourth

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

Easter?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2022  

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2022

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

The Ambiguous Holiday

Labor Day

The Fourth Divided by Six

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

On Easter During Passover Through Ramadan

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2021  

Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2021

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Columbus Day Observed

Labor Day

Celebrating the Fourth on the Fifth

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter, Happy Passover

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2020  

Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2020

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Election Day

Happy Halloween

Columbus Day

Labor Day

A Fourth Without Fireworks

Memorial Day

Happy Easter

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2019  

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa After the Chaos

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

Columbus Day Observed

Labor Day

The Fourth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter to All Good Eggs

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2018  

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa Tonight

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

The Divisive Holiday Of A Divided Nation

Labor Day

The Fourth of July

Memorial Day

Happy Easter, Passover, April Fools' Day!

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2017  

Happy New Year!

A Christmas Memory

Tracking Santa In 3D

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day Observed

Happy Halloween

Labor Day

The Fourth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter! Happy Passover!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2016  

Happy New Year!

A Christmas Story

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

Cruising The Holiday

Labor Day

A Photo Finish

Memorial Day

A Mother's Day Treat

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2015  

Happy New Year!

On The Back Streets Of Bethlehem

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Holiday (Columbus Day)

Labor Day

Memorial Day

St. Patrick's Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

  2014  

Happy New Year!

Tracking Santa

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Celebrating The Holiday (Columbus Day)

'If You Want To Be Free ...'

Memorial Day

Happy Easter!

Two Portraits On Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

The Year Of The Horse

  2013  

Auld Lang Syne, My Friend!

A Christmas Wish

A Christmas Scene

Happy Thanksgiving

Mission Rock Holiday (Columbus Day)

Independence Day

Good Friday

A Valentine

E X H I B I T S

The Michael Jang Retrospective

'Light and Love'

Carolyn Drake's 'Wild Pigeon'

Revisiting SFMOMA's 'The Train'

SFMOMA: Walker Evans Retrospective

SFMOMA Exhibits Japanese Postwar Photography

Anthony Hernandez's SFMOMA Retrospective

A Few Notes On The Jewel City Exhibit

The Worden Exhibit

Visiting Watkins At Stanford

Windisch Exhibit of 1960s Surf Photography

Bent Out Of Shape Over Two Shows

Photographs From The Unembedded

Fraenkel Gallery Hangs 'The Unphotographable'

 

P R O J E C T S

Running Old Wacom Tablets on Newer macOSes

A Project: A Smartphone, A Kwilt and Excire Foto

Green Apples

Interactive Editing

Optical Plan C Kicks In

Rexatar Progress Report

We Concoct an Optical Plan B

Archive Your Photos With a Script

Mounting an External Drive

Chains

Theater Arts

The Beauty Of Old Things

Catch Of The Day

Dancing Maple Leaves

An Edgy Image

Love

The Last Laugh

Making Photo Wallplates

Neighbors

A Double Twist

The Stone Wall

Make A Wrist Strap For Your Phone

Exposure

Portrait

Printing A Time Stamp On Photos

Scanning Polachrome

Restoring A Damaged Print

A Difficult Shot, A Fun Project

Tunnel Vision

Black & White & Red All Over?

When A Photo Of Trees Is Really Of Clouds

Aging A Photo With Exposure 6

Of Forests And Trees, Bushes and Leaves

Creative Arts

Using A Reversing Ring

Getting Out Of Jail Card

A Baby Shower Gift Idea

Shooting A Wedding

A Salute

A First Communion

The Water's Fine

Warm Water Cove, Ilford Galerie

Making Photo Coasters

Sharing Photos With Visitors

Shooting Rivera's Murals

On Assignment: The Party

Making Holiday Photo Cards

 

B E G I N N E R S

Yucca

Autumn Agave

The Unscanner

Cropping a Neighborhood

Dancing Cactus

The First Day of Spring

Early Magnolia

Christmas Tree Shadow

Play Ball

Love the Photos of Your Kids But

Scale

The Ladder

Rust

A Meditation on Patio Bricks

Branches

Fall Flowers

Clouds Over Diablo

Cultivation

Walls

Cutting Edge

A Spire

The Rusted Can

Restoring a Digital Image

Making Inkjet Prints Again

Two Simple Edits

Chasing a Sunset

A Carpet of Fallen Leaves

Clay Pots

Tamalpais Sunset

Learning the Game

Vacant Lot

Double Take

Downhill From Here

The Hedge

Coming Apart

'Discovering' New Tools

Reopening Schools

Fireworks

Closed

Are You Paying Attention?

Porcelain Dolphin

At the Doctor's Office

Holding the Fort

Three Pewter Vases

Morning Light

Saving Time

Two Views

City Skyline

Bird Bath Through The Fence

Scenic Spot

The Shadow Of A Succulent

Sensor Cleaning

Turning Around Once In A While

Shoes On The Sill: Granulation

All You Ever Wanted To Know About Aspect Ratios

Fiat Lux

A Monochrome Moment

The Art Of Cropping

Moving The Earth

Cutting Out Carbs

A Couple Of Private Postings

Here's Looking At You

Storm Clouds On The Ridge

The One-Eyed Man

Christmas Day User Interface Fail

Not Your Ordinary Garden Gnome

'Are You Being True?'

Under Construction: Editing An Image

An Asymmetrical City Panorama

Cloudscapes

The Year Of The Monkey

Super Bowl Week

Fall Color

An Old Lesson

On Shooting Sunsets

A Slice Of Beach

How To Resolve A Little Volume Issue

Improving On Autofocus

Should You Edit Every Photo?

Zooming In With A Scan

A Smartphone Misbehaves At The Museum

Around Town

Getting Your Camera's Shutter Count

A Checklist For Post Processing

A Mother's Rose From The Wedding

A Follow-Up: Two 'Secrets'

Blowin' In The Wind

Photoshop's Most Used Tool: Crop

Taking Your Photo Collection Inventory

Can You Hierarchy?

Improving Your Craft

Getting Started In Photography

What's A Prime Lens?

The Three Angels of Exposure

 

A D V A N C E D

A Monochrome Victorian

Staircase

Cityscape 2024

A Gnarly Shot

That Iris Again

The Crop

A Portable Negative Viewer

Trash Can

A Smile From the Past

A Backdoor Restoration

Neural Edits of an Obituary Portrait

Putting Together a Photo Tribute

Shadow

Looking North

Urban Trellis

Amber Waves

Foxglove

Blossoms in May

Mount Tam

Late Rose

The Moon One Night

Breaching a Gate

On Visualization

The Fog as Prop

Before Leaving

Cherry Laurel

A Tale of Two Shots

Take Two: Signs of Life

Broken Limbs

An Apple Blossom

About That Lemon (and Deconvolution Sharpening)

Anatomy of a Lemon

A Storm Passes Quietly

Seclusion

Manhole Cover

Untold Stories

Kissing

Twin Peaks: A B&W Conversion

Making It Miniature

A Burst of Roadside Yellow

A Hard Place

Clouds in Isolation

Keeping Your Distance

Being Held

Mount Diablo in the Clouds

Tamalpais

A Difficult Edit

September Apples

Climbing the Ladder

On the Road

The Hollowed Out Log

Zoning With Zonin

Summer Rose

The Leaf

The Web

The Brick

You Know My Name...

Monetization

Panorama of Alcatraz

Houses on a Hill

The Keys To Lost Locks

Angels At The Gate

Woozy Wednesday

The Ravishes Of Time

Laffing Sal

Shooting South Again

The Hills of San Francisco

Wood

Lock & Key

How To Salvage Reds

In Progress: The Way Up

Modern Composition

Color Pop In Photoshop

Shooting South

Making A Custom Border For Exposure X3

Taking The Calla Lily Cure

The Art Of Composition

Fall Colors

Halloween Decorations Go Digital

One Fabulous Toucan

New Skyline Artificially Aged

A Different Angle

San Francisco Bay Pano

A Night & Day Lesson In Exposure

Beyond The Velvet Rope

Running On Rims

Je T'Aime

Partial Pano: The City Under Clouds

On Image Editing Software

An Island In the Middle Of The City

How To Make An HTML Email Holiday Card

The Art Of Editing

Something Completely Different (But Familiar)

Cityscape

Optimism, Unfathomable Odds

In The Bag

Downhill

Some Days Are Like That

Solving That Adobe Generator Problem -- Again

Manikin Working...

Revisiting Two Images

The Post Processing Post

Revisiting That Golf Course

A Better Panorama

An HTML Video Project

This Afternoon's Spectacle

A Storm Rolls Through

The Golden Gate

Tintypes In The Digital Age

Animated People Watching

Moon Over The Pacific

Our Guide To San Francisco

Focus Is An Option

The Last Turners

Shooting Fireworks

Building A Staircase Step By Step

Aquatic Park Panorama

Leica And Apple And DNG! Oh My!

The Split-Toning Solution

A Favorite Image Digitized

Bakers Beach Sunset

A Shot In The Dark

Creating A Party Printing Folder

Cityscape

Why Is This Man Smiling?

Autumn Leaves in OpticsPro 10, Piccure+

That Bouquet At Sunset

A View Of The Bridge

Editing the Beach Chalet Murals

Jardine: A Workflow Essay

Solving A Photoshop Generator Error

Notes on Copyright

An Indiscretion

Solving A Revel Problem With Lightroom

Solving A Photoshop Generator Problem

Safeguarding The Integrity Of Your Photos

The XZ-1 And The Wall

A Blossom Blooms

Devising A Backup Strategy

Half Empty, Half Full

San Francisco Bay Panorama

Sending Small Raw Files Without Lightroom

Painting A Photo

Why The Cat Runs Away With The Bride

Playing With Aspect Ratios

Our Secret Backup & Archiving Strategy In Action

 

J U S T   F O R   F U N

Black & White in Color

A Streetcar Going Nowhere

Mike's Olympic Coverage

Aging a Portrait With Photoshop

The Curse of Double Prints

Stepping Out

Baby Shoes

Free Art

The Culture of Undo

Following Directions

Sometimes Your Heart Breaks

The Photo Sleuth

Absolute Power

Expertise

Remember Magazines?

Pillows

Who's on First

Free Cone Day

A Tearjerker

Ciao

A Dark and Stormy Night

Putting Up the Tree

An Appellation

Red Zone

Instead of a Lunar Eclipse

The Requisite Sunset

Bookcase Graveyard

Sufferin' Succotash!

Not Elliot's Bike

Spanish Dagger

Two Cannons, One Letter (and Yoda)

Welcoming the Week

Rocks and Lantana

Papers

Can't Wait Until Winter

The Finish Line

Gardening Day

Hugs & Kisses

Popcorn Roses

Taking a Different Approach

Oxygen

Three Illustrative Edits

Getting What You Want

The Burning Bush

Stuffed

The Left-Out Decoration

You Can Lead a Horse to Water

Another iPhone Avalanche

A Steep Climb

Summer Weather

Always Good Advice

Wildlife

Friends in High Places

Earth Day

Stumped

A Modern Monument

Mondays Aren't All Bad

A Snapshot of Joy

Angel Wings

An Alternative Christmas Card

Sunset Nouveau

Sidewalk Succulent

The Kitchen Sink

Cookie Quarantine Ends

The Web We Weave

How We Celebrated Street Photography Day

A Sulphur Sky

About Those MLB Cutouts

Lichen

An Orchid a Day

In Praise of Green (and Red)

An Urban Scene

Always Take a Camera With You

Society Garlic

Escape

Peruvian Lilies

The Wet Geranium

Ode to Rosemary

Macro Mushroom

Teacher Appreciation Day

Ice Plant

A Tiny Miracle

Asparagaceae

Attached Housing

Another Red Chair

The Other Red Chair

Old Bones

Caffe Trieste

A Blue & Gold Evening

As Dawn Dissipates

2019 Taken to the Cleaners

Crab Season Opens After Whales Migrate

Congrats, Boch!

Friday the Thirteenth

Bad Advice

The Unicorn We Know

So Much For Spring

Spring Poppy

And Then There Are Days Like This

There Will Be Days Like This

Sailing

Surviving The Morning

A Reflective Moment

The Big Lunch

Our Daily Bread

The First Day Of School

Working Late

Save It!

A Thank You To Our Subscribers

On The Plus Side

Let the Games Begin

Pinocchio

Lenses Are Generational

A Castle

A Rain Gauge

Kids Playing

Reciting From Memory

The Power Of Words

A Thank You To Our Subscribers

Take A Seat On A Share Chair

All Smiles

Caption Contest

Some Days Are Like That

Stories Not Told

Breaking News

There Are Two Sides To Every Mushroom

Going Places

Along For The Ride

The View East

When Evening Falls

Over The Rainbow

Morning Light

Happy Birthday, Claude!

Turning Over The Camera Odometer

It's Monday (Get Through It)

A Succulent Image

A Sunday Morning In Bed

The 'Purple' Cow

Any Questions?

The Finals Simulated In Photoshop, OpticsPro

Two Old, Inspiring Polaroids

Not All Mondays Are The Same

Everyone Has Something To Frame

Keep Shooting

Off The Grid

Crab Season Opens

A Thank You To Our Subscribers

Another Day At The Office

Game On

Wells Fargo Prime

How To Photograph Christmas Tree Lights

An Old Storm

What A Photographer Does

Homage To The Square

When Only An Emporer Will Do

Half A Million Celebrate Champs In Oakland

A Box Of Chocolates

On Redundancy

Two Cameras At The Museum

A Modest Proposal For Museums

As the Bouquets Fade

Bouquets To Art 2105

Half Full, Completely Empty

The Best Kind Of Camera

The Ideal Reader

The Best Camera At The Wedding

The Perfect Camera Case You Already Own

A Chain Link Fence

Men Working

Wish You Were Here

Having Heart

Shooting Dice

Auld Lang Syne, My Friend!

Anything Your Heart Desires

Photographers & Comedians

An Evening Out

Portrait Of The Photographer As A (Very) Young Man

How To Read A Photo

Avoiding 'The Chair'

Wait a Minute ...

 

T O O L S

A Macro to Install ExifTool

Time Machine Diary

Another Approach

Solving Photoshop's Folder Follies

Calculating an Aspect Ratio

Quick Tip: Expanding Our Filter by Rating Macro

Quick Tip: Automating Lightroom Rating Displays

A Keypad for Photoshop

Quick Fix: Photoshop's GPU Complaint

Ingester Gets Some AI Help

Executor With a Camera

Let It Snow

Quick Fix: EVF

An iPhone Sunset

Rip Van Winkle Buys an iPhone 15

Ingestor Adds Image Capture

Ingestor Goes Autopilot

Archiving a Year to DVDs

Quick Fix: The Morning Fog

Resolving a DNP Driver Problem

Emergency Fix: The SD Card From Hell

Automating Ingestor

Quick Tip: Photoshop's Corrupted Droplets

The Trek to Ventura

We Calibrate the M2 MacBook Pro

Generative Fill Test Drive

It's a DIY World

Our Refurb Arrives

Prepping For a New Mac

The Easel and the Typewriter

Ingestor Evolves With AppleScript

Macro: Extract Text From an Image

Free Fix: The Stuck Pixel

A Visit to the Optometrist

Quick Tip: Restoring Tool Behavior

Lightning Strikes Twice

Disaster Recovery

Repairing a Nikkor Zoom

How to Pack a Lens

Fixing a Nikkor Zoom

Another Sanity-Saving Keyboard Maestro Macro

Moving to Monterey

Go to Cart

Installing ImageMagick With PerlMagick

Lightroom: Solving the 'Chromium Safe Storage' Dialog Issue

It's a Miracle: CanoScan 9000F Runs on Catalina

Solving Our Own Problems

On Artificial Intelligence

Working Around Photoshop's Guide on White Problem

Using Exiftool as an Image Organizer

The Farallons

Apple Announces ProRaw

Resurrecting a Dead Mouse

Reviewing the Toolbox

Napkin: A Keyboard Maestro Macro With Photo Filters

Now Showing

Using Keyboard Maestro For Imaging and Other Things

Another Week of Shutter Actuations

Sign Of The Times

Archiving As A Constant

How To Extract A JPEG From A Raw File

Textcavator

Leaves

Adapting A Background To Your Environment

Building Macros For DxO Optics Pro

Of Fireworks We Singe

Another Problem Automation Solves

Two Slide Show Fails

Installing Sierra

How To Advertise

Gear Lessons Learned From Golf

After The Deluge

The Quality Of Light

Swatting A Lightroom Export Bug

Classic Battle Green Under Gray Skies

The New MacBook Pro Conundrum

Rags To Rags

Tools Of The Trade

The Life Expectancy Of Software

On To El Capitan

Sneak Peak: OpticFilm 135 Kodachrome Scans

Sneak Peak: OpticFilm 135 Ektachrome Scans

Alien Skin Software Introduces Ambitious Exposure X

One Cure For Ingestion

Speaking Of Clouds...

Before You Buy Another Camera

A Peek At HP's Instant Ink

A Fresh Look At HP's Paper, Ink Technology

Solving Two Software Problems

It's Not All Sunshine

Surfing Before The Web

Back To Work

More On Our Lightroom CC Rotation Problem

Goodbye, Spell Catcher (Sob). Hello, Yosemite!

Preview: Exposure 7

Mike's Free Photo Calendar Kit

Adobe Shape As A Camera App

The iPhone Ecosystem Expands

Photoshop Scripting After Flash

Updating To Photoshop CC 2014

An Overview Of Creative Cloud 2014

Adding Sliding Images To Your Web Site

How To Modify Lytebox Graphics

Spring Forward

The Trick To Safely Assembling A Softbox

The Restorers

Scanning Slides With A Camera

Can YesVideo Save Your Life?

Serious Camera Advice

Mavericks Diary

A DIY Camera Finder

Inkjet Printing Misconceptions

The Big Deal With Big Printers

Camera Reviews & Photography

Going Beyond The Wigglegram

An Old $8 Rexatar Zoom Survives Into The Digital Age

The Old Gray Mare

Springing Back After The Fact

The Dentist Shoots, We Smile

 

S I T E   T W E A K S

Site Tweak: Find Improved

Site Tweak: AI Bots Blocked

Site Tweak: A QR Code

Site Tweak: Site Search

Site Tweak: Enlarge on Hover

Site Tweak: Twitter Account

Site Tweak: Autofocus Find

Site Tweak: Calendar

Site Tweak: Brave Search and More

Site Tweak: Updated Subscription Options

Site Tweak: Counting Matinees

Site Tweak: Google Text Search

Site Tweak: Feature Index Year Dividers

Site Tweak: Slide Show Index

Site Tweak: Image Search

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Site Tweak: Improved Full Text Search

Site Tweak: Word Count

Site Tweak: Form Buttons

Site Tweak: More Glossary Entries, Better Count

Site Tweak: Glossary Grows Again

Site Tweak: Expanded Glossary

Site Tweak: A Glossary

Site Tweak: A Look Back

Site Tweaks: Footnotes, Content Alerts

Site Tweak: Highlights

Site Tweak: Interactive Editing Details

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Site Tweak: Story Counts

Site Tweak: Gear Specs

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Site Tweak: Ridiculous Revision To A Silly Decision

Site Tweak: Expanded Calendar

Site Tweaks: Two Minor Improvements

Site Note: The Year In Review?

Site Tweak: Longer Horn Tweets

Site Tweak: Recent Releases

Site Tweak: Index Left Margin

Site Tweak: Carousel Navigation

Site Tweak: Send A Scoop

Site Tweak: JSON Feed Images

Site Tweak: Calendar Submissions

Site Tweak: A JSON Feed

Site Tweak: Month Subheads

Site Tweak: Calendar Archive

A Lesson In Software Development

Site Tweak: Affiliate Ads

Site Tweak: Ad Server Juggling

Two Tiny Site Tweaks

Site Tweak: Thumbnailing The Obits

Site Tweak: Index Navigation

Site Tweak: Last Updated

Site Tweak: Table Of Contents Links

Site Tweak: A Little More Responsive

Two Site Tweaks: Gift Cards, Phone CSS

Site Tweak: A Calendar

Site Tweak: Polls

Site Tweak: Google Added To Search Options

Designing A Site Navigation Solution

Late Night Install With Site Tweaks

A Few Site Tweaks

One Of Those Days

Revisions, Revisions

Everyone Loves A Parade

More Links

Adding Sliding Images To Your Web Site

Another Site Tweak

Two Tiny Tweaks

Another Text Search Improvement

Tweaking The Site

An Improved Text Search

Top Stories Ticker

How To Chase Updates Here

Tidying Up

Our Recommended Products Page

Comments Come Alive

How To Enjoy 'Photo Corners'

A Comment on Comments

 

M I S C E L L A N E O U S

Christmas Cactus

The Bookcase

Why It's Called the Pacific

Tired

Bus Stop Sunset

Pennies From Heaven

Inhospitable Environment

Reinforced Masonry

PSA: Vaccination Time

Simulated Double Vision

A Collection of Droopheads

View From the Seventh Floor

Room With a View

Mr. Head

Take the Hint

Loving the World

Propagating a Rose

A Grateful City

White and Red

Bush Street

Addio, Pollini

Ice Plant

Red Hot Poker

January Sunset

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Down the Corridor

Saints Peter & Paul

It's 2024!

December Sunset

A Belated Beaujolais Nouveau

The Burghers of Calais

Through the Trunks

The Photos We Take

The Pink Rose

Yo-Yo Ma, the Natural World and Our Common Nature

Evening Clouds

Japanese Maple

New Construction

Tow Truck

Et Tu?

Spring Hath Sprung

A Sunset After All

All Flowers Fade

Fog

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Twin Peaks

It's 2023!

The Heavens

A Milestone

The Sky Is Not Falling

Beaujolais Nouveau

Election Day

Clouds Over Mount Tamalpais

The Changing Landscape

Upon Reflection

The Sparkling Bay

A Clear View

The New Door

Rejects? We Don't Have Any Rejects

Improved Meyer Lemon

The Music of Echoes

Youth Must Be Served

The Meaning of Colors

Urban Forestry

Blossoms on the Apple Tree

Dolls on Portola

Springing Up

Una Selva Oscura

No Place Like Home

International Holocaust Remembrance Day

The Steel Corner

Sky on Fire

The Undemolished

January 6

It's 2022!

Looking Back

Before & After the Storm

Our Funny Anniversary

Flowering Despite the Cold

Beaujolais Nouveau

The Old Bolt

Against the Dark

Dramatic Horizon

An Eerie Sunset

Climbing onto Catalina

On Reflection

The Morning After

Evening's End

The Mural Continues

Before Day's End

Twenty Years Ago

Opportunity

The Fence Weathers

Pinecone

Flowering Rosemary

Retro? Not Going Back Quite That Far

The Extraordinary Ordinary

Wild Cherries

Pinholed

Drought

Roots

The Eye of the Beholder

The Promise of Another Day

The Jury Returns

Early Cherry Blossoms

Skylights

Renovate

Cold Sky

Unreal Sunset

The Chandelier Plant

Ferlinghetti, 1919-2021

A Crown of Clouds

Free

Photo of the Day

Promises

Winter Cityscape

The First Sunset of 2021

Winter Berries

Art in the Wild

Beyond the Sea

The Season of Giving

Life Among the Ashes

Checking Photo Corners With Blacklight

Persistence

Darkness After Dawn

Smoke Without Mirrors

The Overlook

The Patio at Night

Curfew Again

Curfew

Justice

The Orchid

Pride of Madeira

A Bright Spot

Signs of Life

An Invisible Man

Hovering Clouds

A Few Video Chat Tips

The Empty Ocean

Minna Street

On a Clear Day

Low Tide

Delighted

Auschwitz

A Storm Passes

Cityscape 2020

It's 2020!

The Difference a Day Makes

Out of Order

Candelabra

Submerged

An Ordinary Sunset

Casting a Ballot

A Deep Thought on Inspiration

Beauty Briefly Burning Bright

Beaters

Sunday Sunset

The Mind Makes the Picture

Frayed

Old Hand

Summer Solstice

A Colorized Portrait Redefines Machado de Assis

Truth Idealized

The Florist's Van

Facts Online

How Was Your Weekend?

Apple Blossoms

The Giving Tree

A Deep Thought On Camera Reviews

Angry Sky, Happy Clouds

A Model Neighborhood

High Winds

Rain

First Sunset Of A New Year

It's 2019!

Night And Day

The Paparazzo Story

Saved By The Rain

'Unhealthy Air'

Smoke And The Moon

November Sunset

The Petrified Forest of Software Development

The iMac At 20

The Politics In Photography

Is The Print Primary?

A Photo For A Poet

Flying Above The Storm

After Lunch

Happy

Our First Calendar Update of 2018

It's 2018!

A Canopy of Red Clouds

An Autumn Dawn

The Sky On Fire

A Smoky Sunset Miles Away

Time After Time

Photography As An Art

The Skyline At Noon

Smoke, Fire, Friends

New Kid On The Block

The End Of A Sad Day

Utility Box Murals

Jerry Pournelle

Life's A Small Glass Of Glass Cherries

Cradle To Grave

Summer Fog

Fleishman On HEIF, HEVC

The Old Pier

Cityscape

A New Sidewalk

Accidents Happen

A Crown of Clouds

An Old Photo

A Marketing Lesson

Wherefore Art Thou?

Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall

The Old Sill

Of Violins And Cameras

Late Afternoon Skyscape

Dancing Clouds

Sunrise, Sunset

Today's Lesson

It's Always You

Yesterday

Houses

Relax

At Day's End

Lips, And The Night Goes

Warning: Twin Peaks Roadway Reconfigured

Avoiding Digital Eye Strain

Election Day

Something's In The Oven...

Alone In The World

Four Of A Kind

A Dog's Life

If Dreams Come True

Testing, Testing...

The Rain-Washed City

The Last Day Of Summer

Going With The Flow

A Distraction

Infinity On Monday

Bodie: A Photography Throwback

Alternately, Above The Summit

Another Solution To Adobe's 'No Internet Connection' Problem

At The Summit

Life Is Full Of Detours

Can Decay Be Beautiful?

Men Working...

Pedal To The Metal

Telling Time

Portals to the Past

A Storm Passing By

Photoshop Turns 25

A Salute To Bob Simon And David Carr

Day's End

It's 2015!

After A Night Of Rain

The Storm At Sunset

Pennies From Heaven

A Discussion With Piccure+'s Lui

A Night At The Holy City Zoo

Outside 'Outside Lands'

Do Dye Sub Prints Fade?

Lossy DNG: Heresy Or The New JPEG?

The Aftermath

A Midweek Moment

Stopping To Smell The Flowers

Why Should You Suffer?

Taking Your Smartphone To The Doctor

A Pointed Nose

A Literary Magazine For Photographers

Priorities

Art Appreciation

Teaching

Say Au Revoir But Not Goodbye To Candlestick

Never Done

Using Someone Else's Camera

A Beautiful Day

Fifty Years After

Nadar's Lesson On Photography

Appearances Are Everything

Shooting The Minister

A Trip To The Store

The Fiber Optic Game

'Because They Marched'

Perspective

Kodachrome, Browsers, Color, Memories

The Secret To Success

Fluency, LeBron, Chumash, Sign & So On

Photography Does Not Come In A Bottle

Carrying On About Carry-On

Chicago Stanley Cup Victory In 2,000 Words

Two Simple Lessons

The Panic of 2013 -- Accessing Your Work

Roger Ebert On Image Composition And Life

A Modest Proposal For The Creative Suite

How Sweet Is Pellegrin?

 

A S S I G N M E N T S

The Biggest Wedding Photographer Fail

Baby Pictures

Video Editing

Wedding Video

The Party

 

H O L I D A Y S

Merry Christmas

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Indigenous Columbus Day

Labor Day

The Fourth Divided by Nine

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2023

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2023

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

A Holiday For Everyone

Labor Day

The Fog on the Fourth

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

Easter?

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2022

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2022

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

The Ambiguous Holiday

Labor Day

The Fourth Divided by Six

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

On Easter During Passover Through Ramadan

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2021

Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2021

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Columbus Day Observed

Labor Day

Celebrating the Fourth on the Fifth

Happy Juneteenth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter, Happy Passover

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2020

Happy New Year!

Happy Christmas

Tracking Santa in 2020

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Election Day

Happy Halloween

Columbus Day

Labor Day

A Fourth Without Fireworks

Memorial Day

Happy Easter

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2019

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa After the Chaos

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

Columbus Day Observed

Labor Day

The Fourth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter to All Good Eggs

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2018

Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas

Tracking Santa Tonight

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

The Divisive Holiday Of A Divided Nation

Labor Day

The Fourth of July

Memorial Day

Happy Easter, Passover, April Fools' Day!

Presidents' Day

A Valentine

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2017

Happy New Year!

A Christmas Memory

Tracking Santa In 3D

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day Observed

Happy Halloween

Labor Day

The Fourth

Memorial Day

Happy Easter! Happy Passover!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2016

Happy New Year!

A Christmas Story

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Halloween

Cruising The Holiday

Labor Day

A Photo Finish

Memorial Day

A Mother's Day Treat

Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2015

Happy New Year!

On The Back Streets Of Bethlehem

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Happy Holiday (Columbus Day)

Labor Day

Memorial Day

St. Patrick's Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

2014

Happy New Year!

Tracking Santa

Happy Thanksgiving

Veterans Day

Celebrating The Holiday (Columbus Day)

'If You Want To Be Free ...'

Memorial Day

Happy Easter!

Two Portraits On Presidents' Day

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

The Year Of The Horse

2013

Auld Lang Syne, My Friend!

A Christmas Wish

A Christmas Scene

Happy Thanksgiving

Mission Rock Holiday (Columbus Day)

Independence Day

A Salute

Good Friday

A Valentine

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