Two exciting facebook events (well, three if you count my recent incursion into Words With Friends – but that truly is another story). I started a ‘fan page’, jessica levant photo art , and I do invite you to visit, post comments, ‘like’ anything you do like, and ‘like’ the whole page. If you don’t know, ‘liking’ helps it get promoted by facebook.

I was also invited to post in the facebook group: The Street is my Studio. In the past week, I’ve posted 16 photos – and have a few more in the wings before I start looking back through my files for more. There are some wonderful street photographers represented there.

Seems I shoot a lot of windows, so I added a section. If you haven’t perused the galleries lately, have a look at Windows.

Windows - new portfolio gallery

Gate 6 is a houseboat community in Sausalito, CA.  Some beautiful houseboats there, but also some rather derelict structures.  During a recent stroll there, the tide was – well there wasn’t any.  I caught some interesting images, most of which are in the albums on this site.

and then after a nice dinner and a visit to my cousins’ apartment on the bay, I managed a nice night shot looking back toward San Francisco.

Found myself in the lobby of UCSF in Mission Bay a couple of weeks ago and got fascinated with the colors and angles of the waiting area.  Here are a couple of resulting creations:

And then from my recent trip back east, I found willing bits of nature and structures that screamed ‘abstract’ at me:

The left one is from a wall near Elfreth’s Alley in Philadelphia; the one on the right is a pond in the Pepsico Sculpture Garden in Purchase, NY.  Larger versions of all of these are in the Colors & Textures albums.

While seeing the highlights of this city, my 24 hour visit managed to coincide with the deadline day for the Occupy folk to vacate City Hall. 5pm came and went and they stayed. No violence; no police action; lots of news coverage. Don’t know what happened the next day, but I did get some shots of their last ‘legal’ day. Slideshow here.

I became a member of the Belmont Arts Council earlier in the year, and now have a couple of photographs in their two month Holiday show.  They have two more as ‘back up’,  just in case either of these get sold.  Wouldn’t that be nice?

Wendell Shinn, the He in the 3 Shes + 1 He, made a lovely little slideshow of our weekend do in North Beach. See it here:

Next year we’ve decided to avoid Columbus Day/Fleet Week weekend! Lots of people came each day – but many never made it. So sorry about the traffic!
If you missed it, you can see a slideshow of everything I had in the show here.

Getting down to the wire. 30 prints framed and standing up blocking most of my access to the room, waiting for packing and carting to the Live Worms gallery for this weekend’s show. The 30+ unframed works are already packed in the car. It’s been a busy, crazy couple of months getting ready, meeting with the other 2 shes and the 1 he to make decisions and sort out details. Now we’re praying that the forecasted rain will have passed – I’m sure the Blue Angels are on that same prayer track – and that people will actually come. I hope you’ll be one of them!

Had a great week at the Russian River this month and the day trip to Fort Ross on the California’s Northern Coast held many photographic treasures.  A few of them here, but larger ones in the portfolio.