Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
The last video in the series. By far, the single most exhilarating moment of the 8 day trip was the flock of seagulls that flew alongside our cruise ship at San Francisco Bay. Original write-up and more pictures here, with
It sure was hard juggling between the D300 and the Panasonic HD Cam while trying to hold myself steady during the chopping cruise ride at San Francisco bay. But I managed to get a bit of video footage. Pardon the
A short video segment of transportation in the city. This one was taken while the tram was traveling along Market Street on my way back from Pier 39 one afternoon.
The Palace of Fine Arts is one of the iconic spots in San Francisco, even if it’s less well-known or visited than say the Golden Gate Bridge. The dome, adjacent lagoon and park has been used as a backdrop in
The about 8 hours of HD video I took during the San Francisco trip have been left on the computer hard disk for a while, so I finally got round to encoding some small snippets. I’ll be uploading these video
Every trip I make I get a more refined idea or perspective of what to do the next time. So, photographic post-mortem of the 8 day trip: Leave the Sigma 10-20mm UWA lens at home. I like the lens, but
Part II of Global Village is written on a Northwest Airlines flight flying between San Francisco International Airport and Narita International.:) Everything’s big. Think: every meal you have is the upsized version. No need to tell the server you want
I’m writing this at the San Francisco International Airport. I arrived 2.5 hours early, got through baggage check quickly enough (though I had to remove shoes and belt), and now I’ve got 2 hours to kill before my flight to
The Game Developers Conference here at San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center isn’t just a conference where bespectacled geeks gather and talk about video games. It’s a festival and celebration of technology, the visual arts, story telling, sound and music –
The pictures speak for themselves.:) And here’s the best part: they were not shot on the Nikon 70-200mm F2.8 lens – the one that costs a bomb. I took them on my el-cheapo USD180 Nikon 18-55mm LOL. It was an
It’s a funny feeling; until today, I’ve never seen the Golden Gate Bridge in person, but the landmark has been so widely seen in films that going under the bridge would have felt too familiar. That said, this world’s largest
The second museum we checked out on Tuesday 24 March was the California Academy of Sciences. This was a really slick and modern museum; they’d apparently moved into their home at the Golden Gate Park just last year, and that
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