I Don’t Make New Year’s Resolutions

I have never been big on New Year’s resolutions. I have seen so many come and go and so much “resolve” with so little follow-through. Will I eat and drink less, achieve some needed weight loss, exercise more, be less critical of others and more charitable? I hope so, but I am not committing. For [...]

5 Things you can do to Immediately Improve Your Images

We live in a culture of immediacy. The internet and wireless communications, with their ability to move an image file across the world as quickly as it is captured has given rise to a different set of expectations than we had as recently as 12 – 15 years ago.  We want it now. The expectation [...]

Fisherman’s Wharf; More Than Just a Tourist Attraction

Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco houses things like the shopping area on Pier 39 and the famed Ghirardeli Chocolate Complex. Pier 39 is lined with tour kiosks, trinket sellers and restaurants which are mostly in the style of “fast food.” However, you only need to wander a bit on either side of Pier 39 to [...]

Streets of San Francisco

When I hear this phrase, I think of Carl Malden and car chases. San Francisco, with its steep hills, may have the most famous “streets” in the U.S. Sure, there are other cities with steep hills, but none that have the cache of San Francisco. Those hills are real. I know; I walked some of them. [...]