This should be one of the highlights of this year’s night photography season: Troy Paiva and Joe Reiffer’s excellent Mojave junkyard adventure. It will take place September 10-12. The workshop includes 3 afternoons of technique discussions, critiques, and post-processing demos. After the classroom sessions it’s off to the junkyard for 3 nights of shooting and…
Friday night I ventured out to Alcatraz with Tim Baskerville from the Nocturnes and 22 fellow nightshooters. We had the island all to ourselves until 2 am. While there was a full moon, we did not see it because of the dense fog. But we did get to explore the cellblocks, the hospital, the morgue…
I finally got around to redesigning my website and now it is all WordPress! Sanneart.com has been around for about 10 years now and has seen many revisions. I did not update it a lot, because it required going into Dreamweaver to edit the html files or creating a new gallery in Javascript and then…
I was invited to a little girl’s seventh birthday party and the big treat of the evening was a firedance performance. I had my D700 with me and a wide-angle lens, but no tripod and no external flash. I did not want to miss the chance to get a few pictures of these georgous performers,…
We had a great gathering for night photography icon Steve Harper’s 80′s birthday at Tim and Susan’s house at Mare Island. Steve taught night photography at the Academy of Art College in San Francisco from 1979 to 1990. Among his students were several who went on to become quite well-known as photographers in their own…
I had a lot of fun doing a photo shoot for the group Blame Sally today. They are 4 women who make great music and are becoming quite well-known in the bay area and beyond. They are working on their new album which will be released in April. We went on location to the Marin…
I attended the annual Lighting of the big Fresnel lens at Pigeon Point Lighthouse today. It was the second time for me. I went early, around 4 pm and as usual there were already packs of photographers at the choice spots to wait until dusk. It was a clear day and warm. I ran onto…
I had the pleasure to go out shooting with Tom Paiva at one of his favorite spots in Playa del Rey tonight. It was a great learning experience. I am so in awe of how Tom manages to make every shot he takes a work of art, even of the most mundane subject matter. He…