Every year, photography trends roll in like seasonal fashion, bold colors one moment, muted tones the next. One month, everyone is chasing moody neon; the next, they’re knee-deep in minimalist beige. If photography had a thrift store, last year’s “must-have” editing style would be sitting in a bargain bin, right [...]
Read MoreRemember when “virtual happy hour” was the hottest thing in town? Well remote modeling sessions rode that same wave out of necessity back in early 2020, and they’re still bobbing along, for better and worse. My take might ruffle some feathers, but here it is: what started as a lifeline [...]
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Its always fun to go, and its always fun to come home but my favorite part of traveling is (aside from spending time with friends and family which is obvious) processing all the photos I took. I have just returned home from a week long trip to Colorodo. We took a nice photo taking drive up in the mountains above […]
Whew! thanks for all the great comments on the new project! I have six more shots I’m working on at the moment, now, if the weather would only cooperate and give me some non-foggy skies I can do the “now” shots to go with the retouched shots I have ready to go. The plan for this week is to get […]
Happy Friday! well as promised I have gotten the first page up for the Then and Now section of the site. It took me a bit longer then antivipated…I wanted to make sure I had the facts for the dedication portion all straight. Anyway, its weird to link to my own site but here goes… http://www.tahquechi.com/tan/tanindex.htm Next week I have […]
At 10:00 am on the 18th of July it was overcast and misty (not at all unusual for Santa Cruz), thankfully as the photowalk started the fog cleared and left us with some high wispy clouds. About 25 of us gathered at the clock tower at the end of Pacific Ave. here in Santa Cruz. The route took us down […]
Happy friday! As promised another shot from this weeks hike. This was taken at Natural Bridges State Beach. The plan at the moment is to get the first then and now page up on the main site. The page will contain the 2 shots of the arch at Natural Bridges and some history on the shots and the arch. Hopefully […]
Well, Just got back from a week in Reno. I’m back into the swing of things. I went out shooting today and as I usually try and do, I set a goal for myself – the goal today was to not shoot any beach scenes. I really can’t help it, I love the beach heh. Walking in the paths in […]
I was digging through some shots I did and realized that I forgot to post the cool shot I took of a nesting gull. This was taken at Wilder Ranch in Santa Cruz. It was a gloomy cloudy day (not unlike today) so I figured I would go in search of other things to shoot than the landscape. Anyway out […]
Hooray! The tides, clouds and my schedule finally all worked out for a change. I have been working hard to get a decent shot of the arch at Natural Bridges state beach to go along with my last post which had a cool scanned image of the arch taken around 1924. I tried a few mornings over the last couple […]
This is a scanned photo of the stone arch at Natural Bridges state beach. There was no date on the picture but from all the data I have collected, and where the picture was in the photo book it appears the shot was taken around 1927. It was taken with a brownie camera and developed in a home darkroom (kitchen […]
Late last week I ventured to Natural Bridges quite late in the morning. As a result the sun was waaay too harsh and the pictures I was looking for didn’t turn out as well as I had hoped. While sifting through the stack of historical photos I came upon a couple of great shots of the arch at Natural Bridges. […]
Well here we go. This is the first one I have done. The origianl was a bit blurry so I scanned sharpened and retouched as much as I could. Now, the tough part{ trying to figure out if this is from the Municipal Wharf aare. I know when Im in trouble, so I have sent off an email to http://www.sandylydon.com/ Local […]
As promised, I am uploading a new image taken right before the storms set in last week. Its a shot taken from the steps leading down to Steamers Lane looking at the wharf. Thanks so much for the feedback you have sent. I’m trying really hard to make the best images I can. Some asked me what camera gear I […]
This morning I went out shooting. A storm was moving in so I figured I would get it done before the rains hit and boy was a glad I did. I got a couple of pretty neat shots… This one was taken near Steamers lane looking out towards Monterey. Also check out the new lighthouse shot on the front page […]
Scouted some of the areas along west cliff, which will allow me to get shots of the wharf from a different perspective. I guess I need to wait for low tide 😎 Getting hold of all the pictures I need for the project is turning out to be quite the task. I havesent out calls to local friends of the […]
Thanks for visiting and reading! Your comments are welcome and appreciated! Here’s a bit about me, first off I am legally blind. I have been since childhood. This makes taking photos a bit of a challenge, but this isn’t the first thing I have tried to accomplish that was challenging. I spent many years producing video games. I worked in the games […]
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