Stuff I Saw Today

I spent the entire day today walking all over San Francisco taking photos of early winter. Heading up the steep streets toward The Presidio, the damp mist intensified the wafting scent of eucalyptus and juniper. Tender fresh green added vivid color to the diffused shades of grey enveloping the city. As you can tell, I'm taking a small break from celebrity gossip, but I'll be back soon. More of today's photos can be viewed here.

Comments

[Knox Bronson]

Beautiful, 14. Your creative instincts inform everything you do and I love it all. I am one of many in that regard! Enjoy your break and Happy New Year to you and everybody.

[michael ian]

god, beautiful photos... i just got a digital camera and hope i can start taking pix as good as these! im enjoying your personal works!

[llism]

Day-um . . . I could just climb into that third picture.

[anonymous]

gawd, don't go all serious and arty on me.sure, the piccies are good, but they lack your customary snarkiness....

[14]

Haw! No worries, I'm not going all "serious and arty" - just taking a little break from gossip so I can recharge my snark batteries. Paris and Brit Brit wear me out occasionally, but I'll be back on the frontlines soon.

xoxo
14

[armina_iv]

Those pictures are beautiful, I do sometimes enjoy the breaks from the celebs.

[lydia]

Oh my goodness, not only are you an brilliant artist, but also an incredible photographer.
I especially like the first one,of the dew drops (or is it ice drops) on the cobweb.

[Jess]

Beautiful pictures. You're making me all mushy, wishing I was in SF instead of MN.

[Demon Kitty]

These are gorgeous. I wish I could take pictures like these.

[Casey]

Wow, I didn't know you did photography too. I love it when you go all serious and arty! Do you have another blog where you post serious stuff?

[TheReallyJamesBond]

When the art is just in you, it's just in you,... in everything you do! "Very Beautiful!"

[Nechyfer]

those are really great My favorite is the first one with waterdroplets trail.
HAPPY NEW YEAR 14 ALLTHE BEST TO YOU AND ALL.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR WONDERFUL ART.

[vern]

Thank you for taking us to your creative place! The pics were luscious!

[PoorBritney.com]

I love those. The Mansion one is so pretty. My friend grosses out bad on bugs so I sent her the Flicker link and she was caught off guard on your bug pic. She was gonna hurl! It was great!!

[karole irene]

Merci!
Thanks for those lovely pictures.
Like a bubble of fresh oxygen before the bubbly!(I guess, French champagne)! Wishing you and all your readers a sparkling new year filled with prosperity, love and Peace!... I have been a groupie of your blog for few years since I posted in 2005, :
"J'aime beaucoup vos caricatures de cette Amerique, votre crayon acere, votre oeil vif!
Great work!
One of the best dream to come true..., is, you, continuing to sharpen your vibrant eye!
Merci, karole irene."
Posted by: karole irene | July 13, 2005 at 11:19 PM

[cindy]

WOW, those are gorgeous! I think I need to come up to San Fran with my new camera and visit you! Happy New Year!
xoxox

[G]

Really beautiful :) Thanks for sharing.

[moonmaid]

Beautiful! Tech specs please, for us photo junkie types?

[Camy]

You're an artist. Definetly...

[14]

Thank you!! I just got the camera and can't stop taking pics. It's a Panasonic DCM-TZ3 Lumix with 10x zoom and an automatic stabilizer.

Here's a review on it, and BONUS, they call it a "pocket rocket".

http://www.popphoto.com/cameras/3989/camera-test-panasonic-lumix-dmc-tz3.html

[gilmore]

These are really lovely. I hope you'll continue to post more of your photos.

[Cyclops Kitten Natividad]

These make me want to cry, stuck up here in horrible Calgary for another 9 and a half years, where it's been winter for months and will be for months more, and green is just a memory by December.

[esoterica]

Gorgeous. Would you mind revealing what kind of camera you used?

[Steve]

Great eye. But you knew that already, didn't you.

[Artemis]

The 3rd photo is ESPECIALLY ravishing!

[Josh Maday]

These are beautiful. I love the second from the bottom. These are photos of my dreams. Good work.

[Pretty Lush]

I just booked my second SF trip, because I loved it so much the first time. I cannot WAIT to get out there. But I'll be witness to the summer beauty.

[Two Potato Three Potato]

Another word. Or maybe two. The half-light made her smile—that luminous glowing thing—look slightly crooked but no less enchanting like a path through a verdant forest or jungle that suddenly jabs into the foliage at some skewed angle so that you can’t see whether lush beauty or dark brutality lay ‘round the corner. I came back to the scarlet like a song that won’t leave my head. And I won’t let it leave my head.

The riddles intoned breathily extract poetry from spoiled Californians who somehow managed to get inside my skull in the same way that those hippies did. God help me, I can’t grab hold of the wicked and kick it out. Maybe I should not. Something is dying, Operation Sweet Death, I’ll go anywhere even if the lyrical touch is less than subtle because sometimes even fake flowers look beguiling in the right light. You’ll feel time most profoundly when someone looks at the inside and outside with equal fortitude. Think or wish I am together now, more alive than the average stuffed and mounted animal, somewhat slightly. Maybe it’s a padded hammer striking the dulcimer strings; maybe the fact that we’re both breathing right this instance and in the same dimension. I can flatter myself.