Stockton Street
Focal Length: 18mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/125 | ISO: 100 | Post: CS1
When venturing to Chinatown in San Francisco, you are most often lead to Grant Street, where numerous shops and storefronts sling a wide array of all things China. Smells of Chinese cuisine drift towards the nostrils, camera batteries are sold, that beautiful Chinese calligraphy labels all of the shops and restaurants. Golden dragons, colorful lanterns, and vibrantly intricate garments are all there. Grant Street is the Chinatown for white people or tourists. The real Chinatown runs one block up the hill and parallel to Grant and that is Stockton Street. Here is where the SF residents of Chinese descent shop and eat and swap wares. It’s less glamorous and more genuine, it’s stinky and sticky and incredibly dirty, I love it.
Piece
Focal Length: 135mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/500 | ISO: 140 | Post: CS1
This was taken at the Olympic/China/Tibet Rally along the Embarcadero in San Francisco last year, quite a display of raw human power. I love the man rising up against the lamp post with his big ‘ol Peace symbol bling and his vivid red accessories complimenting the entirety of his “uniform”. What I don’t get, is just to the right of this gentleman is a blue jellyfish on a stick that really has nothing to fucking do with the situation in protest that day.
DT Frisco From the Hill
Focal Length: 46mm | Aperture: f22 | Exposure: 1/200 | ISO: 400 | Post: CS4
One of my “g spots” is located atop Russian Hill along Vallejo Street, there’s an adorable little garden that stretches down the hill ultimately leading into North Beach. Above the garden was a small (we’re talkin’ like 12′ x 14′ small) meadow cloaked by a few trees and shrubs, a sublime location to take a nap in the sun or gaze out at the urban jungle of downtown. I will never tell anyone exactly how to get to this little gem, but I’ll take you there…
Vice Peddler
Focal Length: 28mm | Aperture: f4 | Exposure: 1/30 | ISO: 400 | Post: CS1
Lottery, smokes and booze, all that separates you is a counter and the man who trades money for vice. This was my corner “stop ‘n rob” when I lived in the NOPA section of Western Addition in San Francisco, I was in here daily, in fact, if you look closely on the counter there, you’ll see my PBR tallboy and a Sparx (not the baby bottle) to start off my evening of debauchery.
Up From Spear
Focal Length: 42mm | Aperture: f6.3 | Exposure: 1/160 | ISO: 100 | Post: PS7
A shot skyward looking at the Hyatt Regency (left) from Spear Street at the edge of the Financial District and a mere two blocks away from the Embarcadero and ultimately, San Francisco Bay.
Bex
Focal Length: 30mm | Aperture: f4.2 | Exposure: 1/30 | ISO: 400 | Post: CS1
Birthday twin (separated by one year) and partner in crime, Beccie reppin’ SOL during sunrise at the marina in San Francisco, California.
Dogpatch
Focal Length: 22mm | Aperture: f5 | Exposure: 1/100 | ISO: 200 | Post: CS1
A few of my favorite things: grit, color and composition, luscious. The Dogpatch is one of my sought out areas in San Francisco simply for the fact that it provides a satiating amount of visual fodder in lieu of the fore mentioned attributes in it’s semi-neglected industrial landscape. Fun fact: the photo of me that now resides on the Bio page within this site was taken in this very same spot by Phillip Hua.
San Francisco’s Finest
Focal Length: 95mm | Aperture: f5.6 | Exposure: 1/400 | ISO: 200 | Post: CS1
The SFPD stands tall and alert while observing the scene at the Olympic/China/Tibet rally along the Embarcadero, in San Francisco, California.
