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Scenes from Another Lifetime

“San Francisco is my home. I love The City and The City loves me back.” This was a personal affirmation—my mantra if you will—for the first couple years I lived there because as much as I’d like to think I took to the city like fish to water, my ex is always quick to point out the transition was not painless…

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Flashback Friday

Not me this time, but my late friend Steve Golden, spinning at Hotbods in Phoenix, spring 1983:

And in a more relaxed state of mind…

He always thought me silly because of the number of photos I shot of him at work in the booth, but now, some 39 years (!) later, I’m so glad I did. Yeah, I was new to 35mm photography, never did really get the exposure right, and a lot of the shots are out of focus, but I’m so glad I took them. But that last one? Chef’s kiss…

He would’ve been 64 last year.

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GPOY

Some days the best I can muster when I’m out in public and dealing with the hordes of unmasked animals, is a selfie-smirk.

Ben takes much better pictures of me than I do of myself. Maybe it’s because he elicits a smile in me when I look at him, such that it is.

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Las Noches De Las Luminarias

Otherwise known as, “Date Night!”

Las Noches De Las Luminarias is something the Desert Botanical Garden does every year, although Ben and I hadn’t been since 2009. This year we decided to eschew exchanging gifts (we both have everything we want or need materially at the moment), but decided to make Luminarias a shared gift. (We’re also returning in March to capture the ongoing Chihuly exhibition at “golden hour.”)

I just got a new phone, and figured this would be an excellent opportunity to put its camera to the test. It didn’t disappoint.

(This is the best of literally a dozen shots we attempted of the two of us together.)

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From the Analog Archives: Around the Hood (and Beyond)

We’ll call this “Hell on Fell” and leave it at that.
Hickory & Laguna (the green space to the right has been replaced with…you guessed it! CONDOS!
388 Market, my favorite building in The City
The Shaklee Building – If Walls Could Talk
“Tweezer Towers” aka The Manarin Hotel
My View From “Hell on Fell”
Hermann Street, Across from the US Mint
Page & Buchanan, Northeast Corner
Lily & Buchanan, Northeast Corner
Haight & Buchanan, Northeast Corner (Google tells me the building is much more colorful now.)
Duboce & Church Looking Northwest

San Francisco, September 1993

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Scenes From A Road Trip, Day 4

I didn’t do it. I swear!

I’m glad we didn’t dally in Los Angeles. Apparently a couple trucks decided to mix it up just east of the California/Arizona border. We luckily got past it right before they shut down one lane of traffic and created a 4 mile backup.

We had a great time on our little getaway, but at the same time I’m glad to be home.

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