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Category Archives: Photography

Sunday Lovin’, Oaktown Style

Love was in the air today on a walk around Oakland with the dog, from bikes to bread to coffee:

Vacation’s Over

Despite being in photogenic locales such as Gloucester, MA and New York City, I didn’t take as many pictures as I expected, so it ended up being a vacation from photography and blogging in addition to being a vacation from work. I’m posting these just to ease my transition back into the daily, or at […]

Have Art, Will Travel

A couple of leftover photos that didn’t seem to fit with yesterday’s post, so they get a post of their own:

Another Bike Ride, Another Batch of Oakland Photos

Art in the Afternoon

…the public Is pushing through the museum now so as to Be out by closing time. You can’t live there. — John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror I was in that other city across the bay this afternoon, so I stopped in to SF MoMA to see the Robert Frank show before it closes […]

Painting San Francisco

This is sort of cool. I had to go out to the old Naval Air Station in Alameda again a few days ago (photos from previous visits are here and here), and I took some photos looking across the bay to San Francisco. Unfortunately, they didn’t come out very well, in part because some kind […]

Riddle, Mystery, Enigma

The photo in my last post is from a long walk I took with the dog the other day, a loop from my home east of Lake Merritt up to Berkeley and back (a bit over 10 miles altogether, according to the handy Gmap Pedometer). I had some errands to run along the way, but […]

Real Estate Collapse

On Telegraph Avenue in North Oakland:

The 9th Avenue Terminal

The 9th Avenue Terminal is one of my favorite buildings along the Oakland waterfront, so I often end up taking pictures of it from different vantage points as I find them. The building has been underutilized for most of its existence, because it was built just before shipping containers revolutionized the industry half a century […]

Spank Salon

This place in Alameda gives new meaning to the phrase “kinky hair.”

Liar’s Paradox

I question the wisdom of distracting other drivers with logic puzzles like this one:

Eyes on the Waterfront

I had hoped to have one or two more substantive posts up by tonight, but it looks like they’ll have to wait for some other time. Meanwhile, you can look at yet another photo taken along Oakland’s waterfront on my way home from work.