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San Francisco Seal Rock

Posted on | June 15, 2008 | 9 Comments

After photographing the tree-sitters at UC Berkeley, photographer Greg Lato and I met up with Jim Goldstein at the Cliff House for some landscape photography. Jim broke his toe recently so we chose this location to make it easy for him since he lives nearby. This is him shooting pictures with his $8000, Canon 1DS MKIII. Too heavy for my tastes, but the image quality is unbelievable at 21 megapixels.

Photographer Jim Goldstein Photographing the Sunset at Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California Photo: Photographer Jim Goldstein Photographing the Sunset at Seal Rocks, San Francisco, California

Seal Rocks is a location that I had been to many times before when I lived in San Francisco. I enjoyed exploring the trails around Lands End in particular. This spot I had never photographed from however, though it is the most obvious spot to shoot from.

Seal Rock, San Francisco, California Picture: Seal Rock, San Francisco, California

It was a fun day of shooting. The three of us went for a late dinner afterwards near the Golden Gate Park and I didn’t get to Redwood City until almost midnight. Pretty cool way to start the trip.

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9 Responses to “San Francisco Seal Rock”

  1. Leann
    June 15th, 2008 @ 10:00 am

    Looks like you have a nice Bio pic for JG. Seal rock looks awesome too. So does the location live up to it’s name and have seals?
    I ask because not every place with “deer” in the name have them anymore :-(

  2. Richard Wong
    June 15th, 2008 @ 10:53 am

    Thanks. You should see the silhouette that Jim got of me. I saw it on his LCD, it is awesome! Would make for a great logo.

    I have heard seals barking in the past. Have never seen them though. It is named appropriately I think.

  3. Sherri Meyer
    June 16th, 2008 @ 7:18 am

    Nice shots! It sounds like you guys had a great time.

    I used to visit that area when I was a kid. I grew up in San Jose and my parents took me to SF a couple times a year.

    As an adult I don’t get down there very often. It’s been about 10 years or so since I was last there. I attended a really good photo seminar in Golden Gate Park, led by Nevada Wier and another female photographer whose name I’ve forgotten. It was awesome!

    Looking forward to seeing more photos from your trip!

  4. bernie kasper
    June 16th, 2008 @ 7:45 am

    Looks like a amazing place to shoot Richard, that definitely would make a great bio shot for him as well !!

  5. Richard Wong
    June 16th, 2008 @ 10:05 am

    Thanks guys. Yes Bernie, there are definitely some great seascapes to be found in SF. The wave action is pretty powerful so you could mess with that all day as well.

    Wow Sherri. I’m surprised that it has been so long for you, since you don’t live all that far away. But then again if you aren’t a city person then I can understand. Was the other lady Londie Padelsky or Brenda Tharp? Those are the only two California-based travel / landscape pro photographers that I am aware of.

  6. Sherri Meyer
    June 17th, 2008 @ 6:55 am

    Richard,

    The two women were Nevada Wier and Lisl Dennis. Both of them are actually from New Mexico.

    I think they have both been Santa Fe Photographic Workshop Instructors also.

    You should go to their sites. They are really good travel photogs!

    Sherri

  7. Richard Wong
    June 17th, 2008 @ 10:01 am

    The name sounds familiar. I think Lisl Dennis was a columnist for Outdoor Photographer at one time. Yeah I agree, Nevada Wier is good. I’ve seen her website.

  8. Jim Goldstein
    August 22nd, 2008 @ 12:45 am

    Not sure how I missed this, but your photos came out great. I do look a bit odd though with my arm out like a wing. Just for the record I was blocking the wind during a long exposure. :)

  9. Richard Wong
    August 22nd, 2008 @ 1:23 am

    Thanks Jim. I was wondering about that. I try to block the camera with my body when that happens.

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