This 180 degree panorama is a photomerge from a series of 6 ultra wide angle images I took while looking over the edge from the top of AT&T Park. The street heading off to the left and to the right is really the same, straight street with no curve in the road. The distortion is due to the photomerge and the close distance I was to the street. You can’t see this view in real life without turning your head from side to side.

To the far left is the Pacific Ocean and to the far right is the San Francisco Bay. You can see a bit of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge to the right, especially if you click on the image to make it bigger.

Posted on May 15th, 2012 under Other. Tags: dusk, nikon d7000, panorama, photography, photoshop, san francisco, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on King Street – San Francisco

I took today’s photo a few minutes before Roger Waters hit the stage and built The Wall that was to hide the band from the tens of thousands in the audience at AT&T Park in San Francisco this past Friday night. What a lovely evening it was! There was a cruise ship and some sort of Navy boat in McCovey Cove (beyond the right field wall). You could also buy a beer out of the Giants’ dugout.

Posted on May 13th, 2012 under Other. Tags: nikon d7000, roger waters, san francisco, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Roger Waters – The Wall – AT&T Park – San Francisco

I have to admit it. Had Ghost, Mastodon, and Opeth been playing anywhere else in the San Francisco Bay Area I don’t think I would have bothered to make the (300+ miles each way) trip. Seeing them in the Fox Theater is why I made the journey. The Fox Theater has so much personality and so much history. Ghost looks that much more in character in a place like this. The reverse is also true. The Fox Theater looks like it was built for bands like Ghost, Mastodon, and Opeth. The giant, gold statues flanking each side of the stage would not be out of place on a Mastodon album cover.

Posted on May 3rd, 2012 under Other. Tags: california, fox theater, ghost band sweden, nikon d7000, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Ghosty Fox Theater

Oakland has a curfew of 11:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday nights. Opeth finished things up promptly at 11:30, but it seemed a shame to just go home with my all access pass still in effect so I headed back up to the stage for some photos of the now vacated Fox Oakland Theater.

This photo is actually five pictures taken vertically with an ultra-wide angle lens and then photomerged together in Photoshop CS5.

Posted on April 30th, 2012 under Other. Tags: california, fox theater, nikon d7000, opeth, photoshop, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on After the show

I just got back from my trip to Oakland to see Ghost, Mastodon, and Opeth. Things went even better than expected. Here is a photo of Mastodon onstage in the beautiful Fox Theater.

Posted on April 28th, 2012 under Other. Tags: california, concert photography, fox theater, mastodon, metal, nikon d7000, oakland, Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens for Nikon. Comments Off on Mastodon @ Fox Theater in Oakland, California