No, not of me, I promised to use my superpowers for good, not evil.

Having got off my butt, I have posted new pictures, including the beginnings of the projects I have going on with photos from the Fillmore and Warfield, plus some other nice stuff, and odd things too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/westcoastimages

Some good quality pics in there, what camera are you using?
I tried getting into photography a few years ago with a housemates camera, Pentax K100D Super but I couldnt figure out how to balance the light. The darks were always too dark and the lights were always too bright. :S Fluking good shoots wasn't good enough in the end.. but I had fun experimenting!

wow tekla, you really have an eye! those are some really neat pics!

the filmore is one of the places I want to see a show. I heard the remodel went really well.

Wow you really do have talent Tekla.

Well the Fillmore had extensive work done after the early 90s quake, the Warfield had a big re-do (mostly technical stuff) this past summer including new carpets (at a cost of $1,000,000 - not cheep, but remember its like carpeting almost 1/4 of a city block).

Those are all shot using a Kodak 5mp camara.  Nothing fancy. The trick, if there is a trick, is that you take 100 or so, perhaps even 1,000 pics to get the one good one.  I used a Pentax K1000 for years before I went digital.  What the digital gives me is that chance to take 100+ pics without going into debt for film and developing.  And chance has a lot to do with it too, the right moment, the right light and all that.

The thing that is funny, or creepy, is that if I put up 50 pix on the Flicker, the first ones downloaded are the ones of graveyards.

darn. i was hoping for the unveiling of the face behind the skirt!

Great pictures, amazing.
A friend came to visit me when I lived in Asia last year and came home and sent out a CD of photos from the trip. Everyone asked how he got so many great photos he took over 1000 photos but only used 50ish! Thats the best part about digital.
Myles

Beautiful photos. I'm glad you posted them. I'd seen your Flickr page before, and was struck by your sense of image. It's not what I'd expect from you, and it's not what I'd see myself most of the time. It's surprising and beuatiful.

BTW, the date of the Loma Prieta quake would be the extremely early '90's, Tekla. Even though I was 3000 miles away and had no connection to California, I'll never forget that it was during the 1989 World Series, because it's forever associated in my mind with the season of revolutions in Europe. Certain years are unforgetable in history -- 1066, 1492, 1776, 1945, etc. 1989 ranks pretty high.

Yeah I think that's right, it took close to 3.5 years though for the renovations to be done, because it had to be brought up to current code, which in SF for earthquakes, is pretty strict, so I was going by the end date, not the start date.

Ah, that makes sense. I spent a summer in the Bay Area in '99, and I remember seeing a lot of buildings that had been damaged and still hadn't been renovated.

Basically, you have to build a new understructure, which is basically an I-Beam structure built inside the existing brick and tied in outside.