This is one of the most extravagantly decorated houses every year at Christmastime in San Francisco. I put together this video recently and thought you’d all enjoy it on this cold Thursday night.
It’s Cold And Windy In This Place I Live
Photoblogging: San Francisco
Photoblogging: San Francisco

Monday evening there was an incredible sunset in San Francisco. I captured a number of images of it, including some HDR triplets, one of which is shown here. If you’re interested to learn more how the HDR process works, you can download a copy of the original RAW images here. The software I use to create HDR images is HDR Efex Pro, which is available free here.
Blog Notes
Photoblogging: San Francisco
A week ago SDA regulars submitted some hilarious captions about a Bernie Sanders supporter dressed up as the Statue of Liberty. Now this past weekend I saw something that left me cracking up. While I’m generally terrible at writing humorous captions, even I have some ideas for this pair of photos. Let’s hear your best ideas!

Photoblogging: San Francisco
What’s your best caption for this photo, taken recently in the center of San Francisco:

Photoblogging: Yosemite National Park
I’m continuing to go through the 3,000 photos I captured at Yosemite in early August last year. Here’s an HDR rendering, generated from 3 photos, of Vernal Fall.

All of the water flowing down was in stark contrast to the drought warnings that Californians have faced for years.
Speling

Photoblogging: The Blue Angels in SF
The Blue Angels were performing in San Francisco this week, as part of the annual “Fleet Week“. Photographing fast moving objects is both a challenge and a joy.

You can view many more photos of these beautiful planes here. The SF ones begin at #24, with “Blue Angels” written in the sand.
Photoblogging: Yosemite National Park
Peregrines
Colour Gravity
Meet the photographer who captures the energy industry’s positive side
Example #8,043 of the Public Sector’s Struggle with Common Sense

Photoblogging from San Francisco
This is a fountain in Huntington Park in the Nob Hill neighbourhood of San Francisco:

Photoblogging from San Francisco

If you like this image, you can download the original hi-res version here.
Andromeda
Abandoned America
50 states, 50 photos. (h/t Dave S.)

Prairie Towns
Vintage photos of Canadian prairie towns – and lots of them.



