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| Wet Street | Wet Street |
Second place prize, January 2025. Lombard Street in heavy rain.
| Second place prize, January 2025. Lombard Street in heavy rain.
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| Twin Peaks | Twin Peaks |
1st place prize, February 2025, special subject "Through the Window". Catching the very last rays of sunlight really made this image pop. Stereo base was 4 or more feet between fence posts on which I braced my DSLR. It required a big effort to clone out all the people and vehicles that moved between shots and to create the false border.
| 1st place prize, February 2025, special subject "Through the Window". Catching the very last rays of sunlight really made this image pop. Stereo base was 4 or more feet between fence posts on which I braced my DSLR. It required a big effort to clone out all the people and vehicles that moved between shots and to create the false border.
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| Mat | Mat |
In a 4-way tie for 2nd place, February 2025, special subject "Through the Window". Taken at a recent GGSS get-together at Point Richmond, I took this stap of our club president Mat with his own XReal Beam Pro camera. I liked the snap but didn't quite know what to do with it until realizing that it might make for a good through-the-window image.
| In a 4-way tie for 2nd place, February 2025, special subject "Through the Window". Taken at a recent GGSS get-together at Point Richmond, I took this stap of our club president Mat with his own XReal Beam Pro camera. I liked the snap but didn't quite know what to do with it until realizing that it might make for a good through-the-window image.
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| Spiral Aloe | Spiral Aloe |
1st place prize, March 2025. A somewhat internet famous photogenic succulent in the Height Ashbury district.
| 1st place prize, March 2025. A somewhat internet famous photogenic succulent in the Height Ashbury district.
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| A Mighty Boosh | A Mighty Boosh |
Tied for 2nd place, March 2025. Wave crashing against the Marina yacht harbor jetty during some extreme wind and swell. I was able to approach fairly closely as the spray is being directed almost straight up.
| Tied for 2nd place, March 2025. Wave crashing against the Marina yacht harbor jetty during some extreme wind and swell. I was able to approach fairly closely as the spray is being directed almost straight up.
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| Boosh 2 | Boosh 2 |
First place prize, April 2025, special subject "Mergers". A shot of an even more powerful wave crashing the same day as the previous winner. This time in black and white, cropped in to purely highlight the sculptural forms of the spray.
| First place prize, April 2025, special subject "Mergers". A shot of an even more powerful wave crashing the same day as the previous winner. This time in black and white, cropped in to purely highlight the sculptural forms of the spray.
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| Bumble Bee Among Pride of Madeira | Bumble Bee Among Pride of Madeira |
First place prize, May 2025. Took a bunch of snaps of this little guy and got lucky with this one. Cropping almost half off the left side of the image created a lovely framing by the flowers.
| First place prize, May 2025. Took a bunch of snaps of this little guy and got lucky with this one. Cropping almost half off the left side of the image created a lovely framing by the flowers.
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| Deep Space | Deep Space |
First place prize, July 2025, special subject "Pseudo". This is a pseudo stereo version of my February 2022 image "Artificial Creek", cropped in to remove most identifiable features and flipped vertically to make it less recognizable as water. In pseudo stereo, the droplets of spray become the background objects and the overall effect is a lot like space imagery, hence the title.
| First place prize, July 2025, special subject "Pseudo". This is a pseudo stereo version of my February 2022 image "Artificial Creek", cropped in to remove most identifiable features and flipped vertically to make it less recognizable as water. In pseudo stereo, the droplets of spray become the background objects and the overall effect is a lot like space imagery, hence the title.
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| This. Is. Sparta | This. Is. Sparta |
In a 4-way tie for first place, August 2025. People loved all the action going on in this miniature feeding frenzy. A perfect subject for the Hydrogen One 3D phone.
| In a 4-way tie for first place, August 2025. People loved all the action going on in this miniature feeding frenzy. A perfect subject for the Hydrogen One 3D phone.
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| Donut Thief | Donut Thief |
First place prize, August 2025, special subject "False Frame". This is a mash-up of two of my rather overt false frame images. To that end I'd call it a low-effort submission, but it took me 2-3 hours of struggling with various tools to knock this out. Thankfully everyone liked it a lot and was the stand-out winner.
| First place prize, August 2025, special subject "False Frame". This is a mash-up of two of my rather overt false frame images. To that end I'd call it a low-effort submission, but it took me 2-3 hours of struggling with various tools to knock this out. Thankfully everyone liked it a lot and was the stand-out winner.
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