15 posts tagged “presidio of san francisco”
Just got my advanced copies of my photography book on the Presidio from the printers. So excited. Quality is beautiful. I've sent the OK to ship the full inventory and can't wait to get them. Just in time for the holidays so please bear me in mind when looking for that must have coffee table photography book. For now I've put an electronic version on the issuu website (mini-viewer below). Please check it out and let me know what you think.
Tonight they lit up the holiday tree at Funston and Lincoln. People caroled, kids watched and munched on candy canes. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....
The Holidays Lights Tree Lighting Ceremony in the Presidio is this Friday, December 7, 2007 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.
On another drive by after working up on Washington, I caught sight of road workers pounding down a small square patch of pavement on Barnard Ave. With their permission, I set up, assuring them that it didn't matter what they looked like because they wouldn't be recognizable in the final picture anyway. I was just starting to think about using time and motion in my photographs.
At the time I was shooting on film (this was Ilford Pan-F Plus 50) and I was worried about putting a portfolio together. I thought my image tastes were too eclectic, not cohesive enough. When I look back at it now, it looks exactly like something I would do today. It just took some time to get here. Now I worry about other challenges, but this afternoon I feel better looking back, knowing that.
Last week I had the pleasure of meeting with Presidio Historian, Randy Delehanty for a couple hours to work on captions for my photo book on the Presidio. He was kind and generous with his knowledge and the two hours we spent together flew by. He told me that in the process of restoring an old club house near Fort Scott they were uncovering stone terraces built by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930's and that I should check it out. The next day I did. The serpentine stone paths wind down to an old tennis club, then down and over a stone bridge above dragonfly creek and around and down to this wall ball court surrounded by coast redwoods. As anyone who knows me knows, I love trees -I was raised (partially) in big tree country in low Sierra Nevada foothills. When I walked onto that shaded quiet court, surrounded by redwoods it felt like the play grounds I used to play on as a kid (although our trees were incense cedars and big sugar pines). It felt like comfort food, it felt like home. I hope they never change it.
If you are into trees and literature, check out this book, it is amazing!
