Category Archives: photography

2010 – The Year in Review (Photos)

By Dave | Published: December 22, 2010

Is it that time of the year already? 2010 has absolutely flown by! One of my favorite ways to reflect on the past year is to look back on it through the photos I’ve taken. See previously, my photographic year in reviews for 2009, 2008, and 2007.

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I’m published!

By Dave | Published: December 16, 2010

In 2002, I went on a geology field trip to the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Before hiking into the canyon, I took a shot of our class hiking down into the canyon with an old Olympus C-3000Z point and shoot (a crazy, 3.2 megapixes). Recently, a publisher contacted me to license the photo [...]

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What a missile launch looks like in Southern California

By Dave | Published: November 9, 2010

The media is abuzz about a mysterious “missile launch” that happened off the coast of Southern California yesterday. Interestingly enough, while growing up, I remember seeing a number of missile launches from Vandenberg Air Force Base while at our home in Southern California, nearly 220 MILES east of Vandenberg’s launch facilities! I looked through my [...]

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Fort Wellington, near Korcula, Croatia

By Dave | Published: November 8, 2010

Click here for larger size. In 2008, a number of friends and I traveled around the Adriatic Sea on a sailboat, visiting various islands off the coast of Croatia. Toward the end of our trip, we stopped by the small coastal village of Korčula (map). While there, I decided to take off for a bit [...]

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Some photos from Fleet Week 2010

By Dave | Published: October 9, 2010

Here are some photos I shot during yesterday’s air show practice for Fleet Week 2010 here in San Francisco. For this year’s show, I rented a gigantic 400mm lens from BorrowLenses.com. You can see the full set here. How crazy was this 400mm lens? Check out this photo of myself and Marcie Lynn (a fantastic [...]

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They’re back!

By Dave | Published: October 7, 2010

It’s Fleet Week 2010 here in San Francisco. And so begins four days of jets flying over San Francisco, to the excitement of some and the ire of others! I took this photo from the top of our office building in SOMA today with a Nikkor 400mm f/2.8 lens. The thing weighs more than I [...]

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Nikon is stepping up their game

By Dave | Published: September 15, 2010

Nikon announced their successor to the D90, the Nikon D7000 (what is up with these model numbers?). I’ve thought about potentially purchasing a new camera at some point in not too distant future. My Nikon D300 is still serving me well though and ultimately, I’d like to upgrade to a full frame camera (hello, D700 [...]

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Where Muni turnstiles go to die.

By Dave | Published: September 14, 2010

Where Muni turnstiles go to die…, originally uploaded by Dave Schumaker. SF Muni is in the process of upgrading the turnstiles in all their underground stations. Here, a pile of old turnstiles sits abandoned in a corner of Powell Station. Interestingly enough, while taking this photo, the newly installed turnstiles (which have weird, automatic gates) [...]

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My favorite iPhone photography apps

By Dave | Published: September 14, 2010

Originally posted as a discussion on gdgt. Since I’ve had my iPhone 4, I’ve noticed that I’ve been using my other cameras less and less. My poor Nikon D300 and even my S90 remain either at home or in my bag. It’s simply easier to pull a phone out of my pocket and take a [...]

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Apple event on Wednesday!

By Dave | Published: August 30, 2010

(I took the above photo today at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts — I love Lightroom 3!) We’ll be there, covering it live. Follow along at gdgt on Wednesday at 10AM Pacific.

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