A couple of years ago Emily arranged a night time photography workshop for me with the Aperture Academy. I’ve done a couple of workshops with them over the years now, and they helped me catch some nice pictures I never would have taken on my own.
At sunset, we went to the Golden Gate Bridge to catch the sun dipping below the hills.
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Then, just after sunset, we went to the Palace of Fine Arts to catch “blue hour”, a time when the sky isn’t quite black. I had never noticed such a thing before, but there it is.
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We went to Lombard Street to catch long exposures of tail lights against the backdrop of the city.
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We went to a couple of other spots but I’ve been away from blogging long enough that I can’t get WordPress to accept the files and I don’t remember what tweaks to make to pictures to make the site like them again.
There is no other point to this post than to show off some pictures that I like. Blogs! They can be whatever you want them to be!