Golden Gate Bridge – San Francisco

Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco

In March 2013 we flew to San Francisco for seven nights, these photos have been sitting neglected since then…

Our Red and White ferry steamed into the fog, guided by the soul rattling fog horns that punctuated the calm air from their positions guarding the pylons. We had one morning to see the bridge from below, but the fog had rolled in restricting visibility to one hundred meters, this made for the eerie sight of the pylons looming up out of the fog ahead.

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Instagram …

I’ve been a little quiet of late on this blog, so to get things moving again I’ve built in an instagram feed. Instagram has become my image sharing platform of choice due to it’s simplicity and speed, it’s the photographic antithesis of shooting with an SLR. Instagram has limited options, including it’s characteristic square frame, along with the required publication to a wide audience. Join the phone photography fun and follow @jamesdoherty85.

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Rewind – DoF and other TLA’s – October 2006

**This post was originally written in October 2006, but to this day seems to attract a lot of attention from google searches. So to start off a retrospective series of posts, here is james circa 2006:

Ever wondered what this magical DOF people spoke about was, How about Bokeh…? lets start with the easy one…um

DOF as is commonly used on the interweb is yet another highly descriptive TLA (Three Letter Acronym) is stands for Depth of field and refers to the distance between the first point in focus and the last point in focus for a given picture. In what could become this photoblogger’s catch cry, lets have a look at this photo, (No explanations yet just have a look at it…)

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