Here’s a random photograph of San Francisco City Hall I did a while back. The building is just absolutely gorgeous and amazing. If you ever have the opportunity to visit, it’s definitely worth a stop to look around inside.
Archive for April, 2008
San Francisco City Hall Is So Gorgeous At Night
April 28, 2008Slideshow of Portfolio Now Available
April 24, 2008
For those who just want to sit back and watch a slide show of our portfolio, you now have that option. Located in the menu under Portfolio, you will see All (Flash slideshow), clicking on that will take you to another page that will display all the images in the current porfolio. Enjoy.
2008 Cherry Blossom Festival Pictures Now Up
April 21, 2008The 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival was great fun this year! The weather was quite nice, albeit a bit windy and somewhat cold (especially for some of the Cosplayers), but it was sunny with clear skies! This year, I made it down to City Hall to catch the judging contest for the cosplay, and it was amazing. I heard some 199 contestants signed up this year versus ~130 last year, and like last year, another record turnout. It was amazing to see the creativity and dedication that cosplayers have in their art, it was like watching live action anime.
The Grand Parade was also a blast. The Grand Marshall was NASA astronaut Daniel Tani. Splendid floats by many local vendors and clubs. San Francisco District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Also in attendance was San Francisco Police Chief Heather Fong.
The first, second, and third place winners of the Japan Video & Media Cosplay Contest were announced to a huge crowd. A special guest appearance by anime singer, Stephanie Yanez from Los Angeles performed with the Animemyu Sailor Moon group. Excellent event, I can’t wait until next year! For those who are interested, here is the Cosplay.com thread for the 2008 Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival. Thank you to Japan Video & Media for sponsoring the cosplay contest in it’s 11th year in a row.
Below are a few teaser pics, the rest of the pictures can be found on flickr.
2008 Cherry Blossom Festival at Japantown
April 18, 2008I will be attending this year’s Cherry Blossom Festival (April 20, Sunday) to photograph the event. It’s a fun and great event with lots of people who come out. The highlight of this weekend’s festival is the Grand Parade (1:00 PM to 3:00 PM) between Post, Buchanan, and Webster streets which will include cosplayers. Visit the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival website for more information and to download the schedule of events (direct link: page 1 [PDF] and page 2 [PDF]).
Here are a few photos that I took from last year:
USMC: Death Before Dishonor
April 15, 2008
Just out and about randomly snapping pictures around San Francisco City Hall when I noticed a Marine veteran and his Navy veteran friend conversing. I thought his jacket was cool and would make a cool shot against City Hall, it also gave me an opportunity to thank the brave soldiers.
The Olympic Torch Comes to San Francisco
April 9, 2008
The 2008 Olympic Torch’s only North American stop is met with Pro-Tibetan protesters and Pro-China supporters. I stopped by ATT park to capture some moments at McCovey Cove and 4th & King. More pics here.
2007 Public Defender Annual Report
April 2, 2008
We finally completed the 2007 Public Defender Annual Report and it is now available in print or for download on the Public Defender’s website (direct link here, PDF). Overall, I’m happy with the pictures and how it turned out. It’s a completely different direction than the office has done in the past (older annual reports can be downloaded here) in terms of design and layout.
About 90% of the pictures were taken by me with the exception being: the two pictures on page 2, the image on the top of page 7, the images on page 9, and the image on page 11. All the images were taken as an employee for the Office of the Public Defender and not as a contract. The layout was handled by Larry Roberts and Lea Villegas and proof reading by Joan Kruckewitt.
If you have the chance to get an actual copy, I highly recommend it as the PDF does not do it nearly the justice. We already have quite a number of plans for this year’s annual report.
2008 Safety Network Community Leadership
April 2, 2008I shall be photographing the 2008 Safety Network Community Leadership awards ceremony tonight at the State Building on 455 Golden Gate Avenue in the Milton Marks Auditorium. The Safety Network is a coalition of 12 San Francisco community based organizations striving to build capacity, advocate for communities, improve public safety, and improve community access to services.
Guest speak is District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi with a special performance by West Sunset Rec Connect Steel Pan Drummers. It should be fun.