RON HENGGELER

The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Treasure Island with a 300mm lens

Alcatraz as seen from Treasure Island with a 300mm lens

Taking a break in the afternoon sun, on Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay.

Rock City in Mt. Diablo State Park

Rock City in Mt. Diablo State Park

St. Mary's College in Moraga

Saint Mary's College of California is a private, coeducational college located in Moraga, California, United States, a small suburban community about 10 miles east of Oakland and 20 miles east of San Francisco. It has a 420-acre campus in the Moraga hills. It is affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church and administered by the De La Salle Christian Brothers. It is known for its liberal arts education, including its Great Books and Seminar programs, its business program, which in recent years has become the college's most popular program, this is followed by Communication, English, Psychology, and Accounting.

St. Mary's College in Moraga

 

Bust of William Keith, part of the exhibition of Keith’s paintings, on campus at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California.
The Comprehensive Keith: 100th Anniversary Celebration
October 2 – December 18

Master landscape artist William Keith (1838–1911) is widely recognized for his dramatic and magnificent paintings of California’s natural grandeur. He often traveled with naturalist John Muir with whom he shared a transcendent view of nature, reveling in its beauty, majesty and mystery. During their trips, Muir observed Indians, hired them as scouts, approved of their harmony with nature and ability to live off the land, influencing Keith’s views of the Indians that populated the mountains and valleys of the Western landscape.

Keith also shared Muir’s concerns about the great changes playing out in the development of the West. As he painted the monumental mountains, valleys and rivers of California, Keith depicted Indians as they went about their daily lives, showing them living in a land as yet unshaped by the new immigrants. But Keith believed that the Indians’ world, as it had existed for centuries, was destined to disappear. In contrast, however, his paintings from the 1870s and 1880s show Indians engaged in both commerce and social interaction, suggesting a hope that the Indian would be able to adapt and survive in the new California society.

The enormous bronze statue of Saint John Baptist de la Salle in front of Saint Mary’s Chapel, on campus at Saint Mary’s College in Moraga, California.

On the fourth deck, inside the newly restored 1905 Murphy Windmill at Ocean Beach in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco.

Inside the cap of the Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park

Outside the cap on the fantail of the Murphy Windmill in Golden Gate Park

A view of the coastal cliffs from the Olympic Club Golf Course

Looking south along the California coastline, from the edge of the Olympic Club Golf Course.

WPA murals Beach Chalet in Golden Gate Park

On Monday at Ocean Beach in San Francisco, the 17 year old surfer Gabriel Medina, winner of the Rip Curl Pro Search, being mobbed by cameramen.

17-year-old Gabriel Medina from Brazil, winner of the Rip Curl Pro Search in San Francisco on Monday.

Waiting for a west-bound 5 Fulton bus at Stanyan and Fulton in San Francisco.

The steeples of Saint Ignatius Church at Parker and Fulton Streets in San Francisco.

Late afternoon sunlight reflecting off a medallion, at the base of the copula on top of San Francisco’s City Hall dome.