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Berkeley Sunset

I shot this photo on my second or third day on campus as a freshman at Berkeley, and it has remained one of my all-time favorite photos of my undergraduate university. I was discussing a print of this for a client, and that inspired me to re-edit it for the first time in... thirteen years. Yikes. I posted this previously to Flickr, but I like the image and fresh edit enough to repost it.

 

It's only eight megapixels, but it was tripoded, stopped-down, and I nailed focus, so the level of detail is respectable. I wanted to reshoot this in my later years at Berkeley, but this alignment of the moon at sunset next to the Golden Gate only happens once or twice per year, and it was cloudy at the right window each year.

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Uploaded on July 27, 2021
Taken on September 1, 2008