I was happy to be asked to exhibit at the Brisbane Marina (Brisbane, CA). There are currently twelve framed pieces, all of sites in the Bay Area. Some might be switched out over time, but right now, they’re all related to water.

You never know who will show up at an art opening, and I was more than pleased at the turnout – people from many different ‘segments’ of my life came and everyone seemed to be having a good time.
Several prints and one framed piece found new homes, so the month-long show is off to a good start!

I’m happy to announce that my print of the Bethlehem Steel Plant (above) won a Merit Award for the May exhibition at the SF Women Artists Gallery. I printed it quite large and it does make a bit of a statement!

I hung the show today. During the reception Monday I will be offering more pieces, some framed, many unframed plus greeting cards.

I’ve recently been asked to capture a band for some print marketing – tricky since it’s a sextet and they tend to move around and block the view of the one behind. Of course, no flash. In any case I trotted out my ‘good’ camera last week, but found that night they were only a quintet. (see lower picture above). Last night I got one where nearly all their faces show and both they and I are happy with it.

For those who love jazz, the personnel are Al Bent on trombone, Vince Lateano on drums, Al Molina, trumpet and bandleader, Peter Barshay on bass and Larry Chinn on keyboard. They perform at the Seven Mile House in Brisbane, CA every Tuesday night – and I’m usually there enjoying the sea food, camaraderie and of course the music.

An afternoon in San Francisco’s Chinatown produced a few iconic and not so iconic images. My favorite is the card game.

Nice little walk at Fisherman’s Wharf yesterday – a few sites sans tourists.
Wharf = water = docks so I shot the one with a lonely tire on it. Walking along Jefferson St, I found the new Gold Dust Lounge, reopened in this improbable place after being a San Francisco landmark in Union Square for decades managed to replicate the wallpaper and upholstery, hung the original chandeliers and some of the same paintings of former waitresses dressed in Victorian costumes and is proud of having the longest bar in the city.
  

My favorite is an abstract view of the large sculpture outside of Pier 39:

I was excited to learn that all 5 of my entered photographs were accepted into Still Point Online Gallery’s Ordinary Everyday Objects exhibition which opened February 6 and will run until April 30. In addition, the first one on the left above – which is part of a cheese grater – is in their Spring issue of the Still Points Quarterly, a glossy art journal they publish.

The show can be seen at http://www.stillpointartgallery.com/index.php?action=gallery&id=23.

There’s also a video about the show which is pretty interesting. My desktop piece above on the right is shown in the very last frame!

This photograph just won ‘Special Recognition’ in the Light Space & Time’s January All Photography contest. It’s one I shot in October of the interior of the State of Illinois building in Chicago.

The video wall at the Federal Building rotates some of the show images. Here are two of mine, @ 8 x 12 feet. There are about 50 pieces of art in the show, paintings, photographs, collages, etc. and there was quite a lot of interest from the employees during the reception yesterday. The show is up until December 28, 90 Seventh Street, San Francisco (north of Mission Street).