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I haven't written my blog here in a long time, due to the fact that I have been working on a book. The amount of work it took drained me of the will to write elsewhere and even the blog …

It's been a great weekend for parties. There was the 40th anniversary of Chicano Park, Little Italy Art Walk, and the Adams Avenue Roots Festival. Unfortunately, I didn't make it to the Roots Festival, but I made an appearance at …

Crowds gathered downtown this morning to watch CVN 70 Carl Vinson arrive in San Diego. Carl Vinson is now one of three nuclear aircraft carriers based in San Diego, joining Nimitz and Ronald Reagan.

“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” So reads the sign on the door of Harborside School on Kettner Boulevard at A Street. This week, the door opened and let in …

I recently received an email from a future visitor about where were some good places to take photographs in San Diego. Well, that's a difficult question, because San Diego is an extremely photogenic city. Whether you are interested in birds, …

I was lucky enough to be on the roof of a downtown building again on Friday around sunset. The views were magnificent. I took a lot of pictures including the two below, which show unusual perspectives of a couple of …

A lazy Sunday afternoon and suddenly the building begins to sway like an old tramp steamer caught in a swell. The doors open and close on their own and a rhythmic creaking noise is all around me. Looking out of …

My wife said that only I could turn hanging out in bars into an art form. I've been taking more black-and-white pictures of the bars downtown and making them into a gallery on my site. You can see an article …

On Monday I was scouting locations for a magazine shoot and ended up on top of some of the highest rooftops in San Diego. Wow! What a trip! The building engineers at Bayside and Grande North were kind enough to …

Home Again I've been out of town traveling on business for six of the last eight weeks, just coming home weekends. I missed all the rain we've had in San Diego over the past few weeks. It was great to …

San Diego North Harbor Drive offers many interesting photo opportunities. Here is a recent video of me wandering about snapping a few pics: For a description of other San Diego photography locations see them here: http://www.markholmesphoto.com/news/photo-locations.html Have a snappy 2010!

I've been playing around with a 10.5 mm fisheye lens. This is a specialist lens that gives a 180 degree wide angle shot. The lens is pretty much spherical, hence the name "fisheye", and captures sharp details with a very …

Rainwater's on Kettner, the long established San Diego restaurant, will close its doors after one last News Years Eve. The owners have plans to open a restaurant near to La Jolla, but nothing has yet been decided. I went in …

I was sitting on a friend's balcony the other night enjoying a scotch when I saw this shot. The peaceful ease of the swimmer in the brilliantly lit water contrasted strongly with the darkness of the city around him and …

Many casual photographers put away their cameras when the sun goes down, not realizing that the night presents many unique opportunities for getting creative and having fun with photography. San Diego is a great place to be at night. The …

I've been collaborating with local digital artist Ryan Trenhaile on a photography/digital media project. Ryan has re-interpreted some of my black and white pictures with a distressed color effect and added elements here and there. These include a shot in …

The second "Day in the Life of the San Diego Trolley" group shoot will take place on November 14, 2009. All DSLR photographers are welcome to attend and to post their images in the online gallery documenting a typical day …

Driving around in the South Bay area, we came across a bush filled with several species of butterfly. I am not a specialist in macro photography, but the colorful critters were just too numerous and attractive to pass by. So, …

Bicycles make getting around downtown easy. Last weekend we caught the ferry to Coronado again and bicycled around the island. When we got thirsty, we employed an iPhone for an alternative to McP's and came up with Danny's Palm Bar …