RON HENGGELER |
March 11, 2021
Another week of editing and cataloging old photos
I am forever chasing light. Light turns the ordinary into the magical.
Trent Parke
Crissy Field2008Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.Ansel Adams |
Trestlework and anchorage of the Golden Gate Bridge2010I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.Ernst Haas |
2015 |
The tower of the de Young Museum seen from Tank Hill2009You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.Joe McNally |
Franz Shurbert1797-1828 |
9-11Graphic collage by R H2001 |
Storm clouds2015 |
Treasure Island2012There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.Ernst Haas |
San Francisco Bay, Angel Island, and Mt. Tamalpais, seen from the Emeryville Marina2020Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving.Aaron Siskind |
1993Photography is a love affair with life.Burk Uzzle |
A book of pictures about San Francisco during the Gold RushBy Charles Fracchia |
Virgil Thomson1989virgilthomson.orgI've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life has in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.V.T. |
Jazz mural on Fulton St. at Fillmore2007 |
The Pacific and the Farallon Islands2006What I like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.Carl Lagerfeld |
San Francisco2009 |
2016 |
Golden Gate National Cemetery2007 |
Looking for logic on Market Street2012You just have to live and life will give you pictures.Henri Cartier-Bresson |
Ambrose Thomas1811-1896 |
Golden Gate Park2013 |
Union Square store window2012The important thing is not the camera but the eye.Alfred Eisenstaedt |
San Francisco1986 |
Golden Gate Bridge2010 |
Sutro Tower2015 |
Tim's Market, Fillmore at Hayes2007 |
The Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island2009 |
Daniel1983 |
The Dewey Monument on Union Square, San Francisco2009 |
Mike Higgins1990If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.John Loengard |
2015Wherever there is light, one can photograph.Alfred Stieglitz |
Mi1989 |
The tower1997Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.Sebastian Smee |
Leo and friend2007 |
Detail of a mural in Clarion Alley2007Clarion Alley Mural ProjectPhotography is not about the thing photographed. It is about how that thing looks photographed.Garry Winogrand |
A view of San Francisco & Yerba Buena Island from the Emeryville Marina2020 |
Balaz1983 |
A nesting dove with its chick inside the tower2010The pictures are there, and you just take them.Robert Capa |
Alcatraz2008 |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1984 |
Mural on Howard Street, south of Market2012 |
Asad1995 |
Luigi Cherubini1760-1842 |
2015 |
Union Square2012 |
David Henggeler1988 |
The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge espied from the Presidio Cemetery2010 |
Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge as seen from the Emeryville Marina2020There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.Ansel Adams |
Aaron1998 |
A view of the sunset from Chrissy Field2008What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.John Berger |
The Golden Gate Bridge as seen from Twin Peaks2006Available light is any damn light that is available!W. Eugene Smith |
The Huntington Hotel as seen from Union Square2012 |
Sunset on the Pacific as seen from Twin Peaks, San Francisco2006Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.Marc Riboud |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1983 |
Geary & Stockton at Union Square,San Francisco1935From the Shorpy CollectionsFull high-res. view |
Fort Point under the Golden Gate Bridge2010A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.Ansel Adams |
Doug2002 |
1980 |
Jacques Offenbach1819-1880 |
2015 |
Bob1999 |
Cristoph Willbald Gluck1714-1787 |
Maryln1989 |
2021 |
West side of the tower2010Don't shoot what it looks like. Shoot what it feels like.David Alan Harvey |
Miguel1996 |
2015The hardest thing in photography is to create a simple image.Anne Geddes |
Anderson1988 |
Clarion Alley mural2016Clarion Alley Mural ProjectA photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove.'Sam Haskins |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1985 |
Gioachino Rossini1792-1868 |
Cade Morrow1998 |
2015 |
Paper, pen & ink collageBy R H1984 |
Sunset on the Pacific, as seen from Twin Peaks2015 |
Giacomo Meyerbeer1791-1864 |
A view of San Francisco Bay and Mt. Tamalpais from the Emeryville Marina2020 |
Marian AndersonEaster SundayMarian Anderson, contralto, was denied the right to perform at Constitution Hall by the DAR because of her color. Instead, and at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt, Harold Ickes permitted her to perform at the Lincoln Memorial on April 9, 1939.Marian Anderson Sings at Lincoln MemorialMarian Anderson: Musical IconNPRPBS |
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