My girlfriend recently invited me and my boys to a treasure hunt. Yes, a treasure hunt. Apparently there are little cans and other tiny containers, hidden throughout the city and the country, that have little trinkets inside…

Once you find the (hopefully) well-hidden container, you open it up, fill out the log with the date and location, place another item inside and put it back in its hiding place. Some of the trinkets have little tags on them so you can see where they’ve traveled and how long they’ve been traveling.

Intrigued, I said yes. The following images (aside from that first one) is what resulted. All the shots were taken on my Elan 7E.

My little boy still carries around the golf ball like it’s the most valuable thing he’s ever found.

A little while back, I posted about a personal crisis I was going through.

Basically, frustrated with my work and feeling like it was headed nowhere, I finally concluded that in order to make progress artistically, I was simply going to have to shoot a whole lot more.

Nothing groundbreaking or inspiring in and of itself. Very simple.

Just shoot more.

So I started doing just that with this gorgeous exchange student (just 17 years old), called Heide. All I knew going into this was that I had seen and was greatly inspired by ads for David Yurman jewelry and wanted to do something similar.

Here are the results. I’m very excited about these! Enjoy!

Many thanks to Heide for braving the cold wind and for working so hard with me!

Last week, you saw the world of San Francisco in color. Today, you’ll see it in black and white.

Now, I may not have extensive experience as a film photographer, but I did pay close attention to when I felt I should be using color and when I shouldn’t. Hopefully my photography will convey this, but I wasn’t switching haphazardly.

Here we go!

Street performance away from the tourists.

The last moments of this crab were spent watching a curious child.

Ok, so I don’t care how much of a tourist I am for seeing Alcatraz, but I knew I wanted to from the start.

And then, on the day before last, I decided to go up to Twin Peaks and admire the view…

And as I looked up to the peak I was headed for, I noticed a small group of people. My instant thought was “Really? Tourists? Up here? In a group like that?”

The view got more breathtaking with every step. But as I got closer to the peak, I realized… I just walked into a wedding. I managed to get there just in time for the handsome couple to say “I do”. How sweet is that?!

And I couldn’t help but take some pictures. What a wonderful place to get married. The ceremony was tiny, with only about twenty people attending, the weather was perfect and the couple seemed profoundly happy.

iPhone photos coming soon…

Day 22/365

The electric guitar I never have time to play anymore… I’m sure I’ll soon take a picture of the acoustic guitar sitting right next to it that I also never have the time to play anymore.

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