Author Archives: Stacy

the fall the temperatures drop and the daylight fades, the leaves stop making food.  The chlorophyll begins to break down and the green color dissipates.  Always present in the leaves are the lesser amounts of yellow and red pigments, hidden … Continue reading →

Every time I see someone surfing the tune to Hawaii 5-0 starts rattling around in my head.  Most images and scenes, pictures and art, songs and poems extract from us something that we can associate with from our past and … Continue reading →

The local seagulls (California, Western and Herrmann’s) are getting a jump start on the “crabbing season.”  The season for sport crabbing began yesterday and the commercial season, south of Mendocino, begins on November 15.  It was as if this Western … Continue reading →

There are hundreds of fantastic “postcard” photos of San Francisco and specifically the Golden Gate Bridge.  But it is still rewarding to look for your own moments worth capturing.  After a bald sky with little sunset color at Baker Beach, … Continue reading →

For me it is photography but it could be painting, poetry, dance, music or any art form that helps us see the images within the images.  This past week I was looking for them in the morning hours at a … Continue reading →

Ruins and history sometimes shine most graciously when bathed in the golden glow of the final light before sunset.  This is true of the old ruins of Sutro Baths whose stones still kiss the Pacific Ocean in San Francisco. The … Continue reading →

In the art of wine-tasting there are basically six steps: use your sense of sight, then swirl, sniff, sip, spit and finally drive home safely.  Just as there is an art to tasting the fermented juices, there’s an art to … Continue reading →

This past week I walked past the “Enchantment Pond” outside the De Young Museum in Golden Gate Park.  It isn’t very large but right now a couple of dozen water lilies are blooming.  I photographed these lilies one day in … Continue reading →

It is said that the best weather in San Francisco is Fall, the season we have just entered.  But it seems like all this climate change – global warming, is changing the predicable patterns around here.  Rainfall is rare this … Continue reading →

Given my very limited time this past week for photography I had to take my own challenge.  Pick a spot and pretty much create images there.  So a parking lot with its the gardened edges became my creative play ground.  … Continue reading →