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The Classic
It wouldn’t be America without the iconic 1960s Ford Mustang making appearances along her streets. And it just wouldn’t be Mother Nature without some deterioration of that beloved paint job.
Found in San Francisco, CA.
Sadhus
These two Indian sadhus were sitting in the Jagdish temple complex in Udaipur, India. Their pleasant demeanor and emotive faces had developed a small crowd taking their picture.
As is the case with most of the Sadhus I came across in India, they allowed photos by foreigners for a small “donation”. I gave them 10 Rupees, or about $0.20, each.
Spring Magnolias
Flowers can be irresistible to the photographer, causing a near automatic reaction to shoot them. These magnolias live on Potrero Hill in San Francisco.
Taken Spring 2010.
Sutro View
Many people don’t know upon a visit to San Francisco that at the city’s tallest point sits a radio tower shaped like an iron claw. The Sutro Tower, built in 1973, stands almost a thousand feet tall and in the summer often sprouts out from beneath a feathery blanket of fog.
San Francisco icon Herb Caen once wrote, “I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge.”
On the Strand
The Strand Theater in San Francisco has gone through many incarnations since 1917: movie house, club, porn theater and haven for hookers and crack dealers. The historic landmark finally closed its doors in 2003, the last theater on Market Street to do so.
Street art by Roa.
Some light stretching
All manner of activity goes on at the riverbank of the Ganges River in Varanasi. And to see eccentricities is no uncommon occurrence. It just gives that much more flavor to an already flavorful spot.
India has an abundance of these moments.
Grand Prix
Every Labor Day is the Giro di San Francisco, formerly known as the San Francisco Grand Prix, a competitive criterium bike race. About 150 pro riders, men and women, turn up to show off their sprint skills to energetic cycling fans.
This particular race, the men’s finals of the 2010 edition, was 15 laps around a course of about 10 square blocks at the foot of Telegraph Hill.
Monkey Watch
To locals, monkeys aren’t the curious and adorable creatures they appear to be to those of us that visit their homelands. They’re looked at as interlopers and tend to steal things, valuable things.
To travelers however monkeys are pure photographic gold.
Brick Ranger
If you find yourself on Alcatraz, do yourself a favor and hire a ranger as a guide. They’ll give you a perspective of its history you simply will not get by going it alone.
This is Jayeson Vance, Official Ranger at Alcatraz, and he takes an obvious pride in his work. His stories are rich and joyfully enthusiastic. Arrange his tour before your visit.
Accordioniste
When you see a street busker, give him some money. Theirs is a thankless trade, made better by your patronage. Or else record them with photography.
Taken on Fillmore Street, San Francisco.
The Stradun
Running down the middle of the Old Town in Dubrovnik is a wide pedestrian boulevard called Stradun, meaning ‘street’ in Croatian. Its limestone cobbles are smooth to the touch, weathered down by nearly 900 years of footsteps.
During the day, the street is choked with visitors, more tourists than locals, but at night it clears out, leaving you to contemplate its age and what it does to your heart.
City by the Ganga
Varanasi is a mysterious city, a spiritual city and a thousand miles deep. Its impact is uncovered layer by layer.
Every night just after sunset an immense puja ceremony takes place on the riverbank at the center of this photo, in front of thousands of spectators, mainly pilgrims but also throngs of revelers, there to see the spectacle.
Pt. Reyes Seashore Road
If you see a lane draped over with spring trees, walk down it. If you see a path emptying out to a distant manor, walk down it. If you see this, breathe deep and walk down it. It is not permanent.
Pt. Reyes Seashore is a rocky stretch of land north of San Francisco that sticks out into the Pacific like a hammer. But inland from the cliffs and wind lies a pastoral landscape that will make you look for roads untaken.
3 Heads 6 Arms
Practicing Buddhist and large-scale sculpture artist Zhang Huan installed this in front of the San Francisco City Hall in 2009, and while the final piece technically did not have six arms (two were destroyed during installation), it embraced you with its magnificence.
Tribute to Love
“A teardrop on the cheek of eternity,” said Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. And this monument to a monumental love, no matter how many times you see it, never becomes cliché.
Photo taken just after sunrise. Agra, India.
Puja Sisters
Innocence and joy ignites a sparkle in a little sister’s eye. Calm and knowing weaves the older sister’s features like fine lace. Two personalities growing together may never know a life outside of India.
But then again, why should they?
The Gothic Hibernia
The Hibernia Bank building stretches its ancient arms back down Jones and McAllister Streets in an emotionless hug, the same way it has all these years, now shuttered and sealed not just to keep the junkies out, but to keep its secrets in. Mary Shelley would be proud of it.
Shot in HDR, Spring 2011.
The Joshua Tree
The magic of Joshua Tree National Park in Southeastern California is omnipresent. Fifteen minutes spent in the park and you feel how it permeates the air.
There are spirits who live in the rocks, and the Joshua Trees are their hands permanently stretching upwards.
Each photo is hand printed for sale by our friends at Hanson Digital, and come with a 100% money back guarantee.
Prints come in 3 sizes:
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Print (16″x24″)
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