A collection of my favorite photos from 2009.
Perhaps not my best photos, simply my favorite.
Enjoy!
Herbie Hatman gets pie in his eye
The instigator of the Powell Street Cable Car Turn Around Pie Fight, Herbie Hatman, becomes another victim of his own prank.
San Francisco Pie Fight At The Powell Street Cable Car Turnaround
-Laughing Squid
S.F. may crack down on ‘flash mob’ antics
-SF Gate
Avast ye there be a Hornswaggler on the horizon
John Law spies through a looking glass. But what does he see?
Extra Maritime Action Band
The Extra Action Marching Band Serenades the Construction Crew as they Move the Bay Bridge into Place. There are moments in which life becomes so fantastic that it almost feels as if you have passed through a shear curtain somewhere along the way and passed into a lucid dream. I strive to have a life filled with as many moments like this as I can. There are people who orchestrate or know the proper recipe to hand craft such moments. These people are heroes to me.
Swings on B.A.R.T.
I have absolutely no idea how swings came to be installed on BART; honest. What’s going on with the guy with the tree branch? Really couldn’t tell you. This is when randomness colides with social hijinks. Welcome to San Francisco. Please do not call it Frisco or San Fran. Thank you.
Journey
totheendofthenight.com This is my favorite contre jour that I have captured. I snapped it in the midst of playing a bike catcher in Journey to the end of the night in Oakland
Donate to My Darkroom Fund
Flipping through my photos I now realize I did not shoot a single roll of film last year; which makes me really sad. I don’t even consider it unless I am going to print them myself which means renting space at a darkroom and buying photo supplies which I have tucked in a neat little shoe box of things I would like to do but cannot afford and hidden under the bed. In retrospect I do not think it should be this way. You can see some of my film work below. If you like my photography and would like to support and encourage me to shoot and develop film you can do so via the magic of the internet. Any generosity is deeply appreciated.
~Shålaco