08 Sunday Oct 2017
Posted in #Fleetweek, Blue Angels
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Blue Angels 1, 2, 3, and 7 flying in a tight stacked formation during Fleetweek San Francisco this weekend. It is amazing how they can fly so precisely in close formations and doing it safely.
08 Sunday Oct 2017
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Blue Angels in the Diamond formation approaching from the Marin County side of the San Francisco Bay towards Aquatic Park in San Francisco. The weather was perfect in the low 70’s with a slight breeze and not a cloud in the sky. Love to go out every year during Fleetweek to watch them.
08 Sunday Oct 2017
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Blue Angels 1, 2, 3, and 7 in the Diamond Formation during Fleetweek 2017 in San Francisco. Always an awesome experience watching them perform their aerial manuvers.
05 Thursday Oct 2017
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ballpark art, Baseball Stadium, Candlestick, Candlestick Park, Candlestick Park Days Past, Candlestick Park Photography Art, CandlestickParkdayspast, Canon, Etsy Untouchedtcphotos, Former Baseball Stadium, giants nation, giants nation united, Lost Ballpark, Remembering Candlestick Park, San Francisco, San Francisco Giants, sf examiner, sf gate, SF Giants, Stadium Art, the stick, Untouchedtcphotos, We are Giants, we are sf
A few weeks ago, we received a request to be able to put up one of our photos up in her cubicle. She wanted a scenic fall foliage to decorate her office space. She was thinking the photo could be a business card size. But my wife thought a larger photograph would be nicer to look at. The request was to put up the photograph on the metal cabinet in the cubicle.
So this Candlestick Park photograph is an example of our 5×7 Canvas Magnet. The photograph was placed on an actual Candlestick Park seat. I just bought the seat and not the entire chair. My wife has forbidden me to buy the chair due to our space limitation in our house.
As in our magnet pin design, the magnet on the photograph can be removed. So the photograph can be attached to another surface. That surface would be sandwiched between the photo and the magnet.
Now, our customer is happy to be able to display her 5×7 inch Canvas Magnet in her cubicle. The magnet even has a piece of felt on top, so it does not mark the metal surface. I also coat the photograph with a brushed texture coating for protection.
We spend a lot of time in the office. We experience a lot of stress at work. With this design, it is very easy to create a personal photo art gallery in one’s office space. We need scenery in our cube to calm and help us focus on good memories like the times spent at Candlestick Park.
02 Monday Oct 2017
Posted in Baseball, San Francisco Giants, SF Giants
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2010 Willie Mac Award Winner, Baseball, Canon, Etsy Untouchedtcphotos, giants nation, giants nation united, MLB, San Francisco, San Francisco Giants, sf examiner, sf gate, SF Giants, Untouchedtcphotos, We are Giants, we are sf, Willie Mac Award
Yesterday, we were invited to a good friend’s housewarming party in San Ramon. I was looking forward to visiting with my friends whom I’ve known since the days when I worked as product photographer at the Good Guys. I’ve been fortunate to be friends with these people for all these years.
It was a fun party catching up with all the different friends. Little did I know that the fun party would become more exciting. We just sat down to eat our huge plates of food. The host of the party suddenly came to our table to announce that Andre Torres the former SF Giants player and one of the champions who won the 2010 World Series had just arrived. We all thought she was joking. The host is also notorious for making up silly nicknames for her friends. So I thought she gave a new nickname to someone. But as I looked up, I realized that Andre Torres really did arrive to the party.
I was so excited I jumped up and made my way to the kitchen area of the party room. My friend introduced me to Andre Torres. He was so genuinely warm and friendly. When I shook his hand, I realized this was really him! My friend started to ask him about his World Series Championship Ring. He removed the ring and allowed her to look at it. She was kidding him about the ring and handed me the ring to look at too.
I knew I had to act fast to get my camera ready. I felt bad to ask if I could take a few pictures since Andre had a full plate of food. But Andre was very nice and put down his food, so I could take these few pictures. It was so exciting for me take these pictures of Andre Torres and also him wearing the ring. We shook hands a couple of times during our interaction. He was a humble man who still appreciates his SF Giants fans. He thanked me for being a fan. I thanked him for playing for the SF Giants and for winning the first World Series for San Francisco. We are so appreciative for that tremendous win of the World Series.
It was a great honor for me to meet and speak with Andre Torres. I’m glad I have pictures to remember the event. I wish I had asked someone to take our picture together. But I did take a picture of Andre with the host of the party.
When I left home to attend this party, I decided to bring my full frame Canon EOS 5D Mk IV camera to take group pictures of my friends. I never dreamed that I would get to photograph Andre Torres. I’m so glad I brought my camera with me so I could take this great Willie Mac Award winning San Francisco Giants player.
What did I learn from this experience?
29 Friday Sep 2017
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Welcome to the bleacher section behind left field underneath the upper deck. The picture was taken at a SF Giants game in May 1988. You can see the left field foul pole and the press box in the distance. I used Kodak 35mm Kodachrome ASA 64 transparency film.
29 Friday Sep 2017
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1993 Home Opener, ballpark art, Baseball Stadium, Candlestick, Candlestick Park, Candlestick Park Days Past, Candlestick Park Photography Art, CandlestickParkdayspast, Canon, Etsy Untouchedtcphotos, Former Baseball Stadium, giants nation, giants nation united, Home Opener, Lost Ballpark, Opening Day, Remembering Candlestick Park, San Francisco, San Francisco Giants, sf examiner, sf gate, SF Giants, Stadium Art, tell it goodbye, the stick, Untouchedtcphotos, We are Giants, we are sf
The SF Giants played the new expansion team, Florida Marlins, in the Giants Home Opener on Monday, April 12, 1993. Home Openers for the Giants were always guaranteed sellout games and tickets were harder to come by. I was extremely happy that I was able to go to this game. The Giants won the game, 4-3.
It was always nice to see the large crowd of people at Candlestick Park which was not a common sight unless it was the Home Opener, weekend Dodgers games, or Post Season games. Here was a look down the 3rd base side with the distinctive press box at the top of the stadium.
28 Thursday Sep 2017
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Autumn, Autumn colors, Autumn Leaves, Canada, Canadian Fall Foliage, Canon, Etsy Untouchedtcphotos, Fall, Fall Foliage, Fall Foliage Photographs, Fall Leaves, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario Fall Foliage, Untouchedtcphotos
It was really amazing to see the natural complimentary colors when we visited Northern Ontario Canada to see family and the Fall Foliage in September 2014. This picture was taken without any color filters and the colors were what I saw in person. The different colored leaves were a good demonstration of color photography in nature.
27 Wednesday Sep 2017
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Autumn, Autumn colors, Autumn Leaves, Canada, Canadian Fall Foliage, Canon, Etsy Untouchedtcphotos, Fall, Fall Colors, Fall Foliage, Fall Foliage Photographs, Fall Leaves, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario Fall Foliage, Untouchedtcphotos
The Yellow and Orange Sugar Maple Leaves brightened this Fall Foliage Day back in September 2014 in Northern Ontario Canada. The saturation in the colors of the leaves is unreal.
24 Sunday Sep 2017
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Autumn, Autumn colors, Autumn Leaves, Canada, Canadian Fall Foliage, Canon, Etsy Untouchedtcphotos, Fall, Fall Colors, Fall Foliage, Fall Foliage Photographs, Fall Leaves, Northern Ontario, Ontario, Ontario Fall Foliage, Sault Ste Marie Canada, Untouchedtcphotos
Fall Foliage, Breathtaking Trans-Canada Highway ON-17, in Northern Ontario, Canada in September 2014. Our great Canadian relatives were our tour guides and drove us out from Sault Ste Marie to some spectacular parks and to the shores of Lake Superior. That lake is huge! They called it an inland sea. We witnessed some fantastic Fall Foliage and were fortunate to have great weather during our stay.
