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View across shoreline toward the south.
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Up until the late 19th Century the Islais Creek basin on San Francisco’s southern coast was an impressive tidal marsh. Then the exuberant application of explosives, steam, and later diesel power filled the marsh to create district of industrial works.
In the current day there is little to recognize of the former wetlands. The Islais Creek channel is still there in a formal, channelized way. Here and there you can find small patches of long neglected shoreline where nature has managed to soften the industrial vocabulary of the landscape. One example is Heron’s Head Park, which we documented earlier in the Hidden Ecologies project. On Saturday I visited another bit of the shore right at the outlet of Islais Creek. This is a site called Pier 94 where the Golden Gate Audubon Society is managing a small plot of land to provide habitat for wildlife and waterfront access for humans.
My colleague Wayne Lanier asked if I could take KAP images of the site showing the placement several benchmarks. It turned out to be a difficult session. The marine layer dealt us an overcast that was pretty thick at times. Meanwhile winds were wandering from near calm to over 15 mph with azimuth shifts of 90 degrees or so. I tried a couple of kites before settling on the 7.5-foot Rokkaku and flew this for an hour before getting enough lift for the camera. The KAP rig then went up and down a half dozen times due to lulls in the wind. Some of the retrievals bordered on urgent.
The afternoon produced images covering most of the site. But it was one of those sessions where the bulk of my attention was on the kite flying and tending to camera survival. In the end the images were not very good. My 10-22mm lens somehow got set wide open (f4.0), a condition where the corners are way too soft and, worse yet, the camera was switched to matrix metering which seems to cause focusing issues when the camera is aloft. Add a bit of motion blur and inattention to controlling the camera as I struggled with the kite and the session image quality was the worst in a couple of years. So, I am chalking this trip up as a scouting session and look forward to a follow up shoot under more friendly conditions.
Joe's not really 94, is he? He doesn't look it, but he is! Joe Medicine Crow was recently in the Ken Burns documentary "The War," where Joe spoke of his personal experiences during World War 2, including capturing a herd of German S.S. Officers' horses!
An addition:
Joe's wife of 61 years, Gloria Morrison Medicine Crow, passed away on March 12, 2009.
www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2009/03/14/obituaries/50...
keystone, colorado
march 1977
nastar national championships, march 24-26, 1977
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atlanta, georgia
1977
mother's finest, in concert
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aspen, colorado
1977
peter's spaceship
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Buckingham Fountain, Chicago, IL
I've been absolutely obsessed with color and depth of field lately.
383 camera right thru umbrella @ 1/16
430EZ camera left diy snoot
285HV bottom frame gelled red
v4 triggered
Haven't uploaded anything in the past few days but I haven't skipped an actual day of shooting yet, which I'm proud of. I'm not gonna upload yesterday's yet because I haven't edited it yet, and I still need to take one for today.
Boulder Strong - - I had to come up here and see and pay my respects. I work at a grocery store and I also shop for and driver people’s groceries, so I am in grocery stores all the time. I also worked at a gas station for 3 1/2 years. It is always at the back of my mind that something like this could happen where I’m at at any time.
ORANGE.
I looked all over, including the thought of driving 3 hours away to find the motorcycle I was looking for. I wanted a Buell, and wouldn't settle for ANY bike with a chain, after the fiasco with my last Kawasaki GPz750, which ate chains and sprockets like they were chewing gum. The final straw was after my 3rd chain and second set of sprockets, that the chain broke, whipping around and knocking off the oil sensor (which amazingly held a majority of oil on the inside of the crankcase). But I digress. I ended up finding a Buell right in my town. It was orange. I dont particularly like orange. I like oranges, but that doesnt mean I like to wear them. But alas, I figured I was saving a 3 hour drive, and would put up with the color. I could always paint it. You'll notice that this is where the gas tank usually is. but theres no gas tank there, its an air box basically. The gas tank is incorporated into the frame. Anywho... Its orange. At least theres no chain but I didnt explain why theres no chain...
aspen, colorado
1977
trampoline
backyard, dewolf home
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
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atlanta, georgia
1977
mother's finest, in concert
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com