I recently finished reading a book called All the Gallant Men, a fascinating memoir by Donald Stratton, who was serving aboard the USS Arizona at the time of the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. He survived the ship’s sinking but suffered serious burns; and while he and his fellow survivors were initially treated in Hawaii, they were later transferred first […]
I keep going back to San Francisco on single-day trips, trying to capture some good images of Fort Point. My first trip was on a weekend during Fleet Week, and I came home with 82 shots on my memory card — which I somehow managed to lose in the ether while transferring them from camera to laptop. For my next […]
A few more pictures from San Antonio this week… San Antonio’s beautiful River Walk — the first serious plans were drawn up in 1929, and organized construction commenced in 1939. The Casa Rio first opened in 1946 (the River Walk project’s main architect kept his office right next door). It’s one of the most photographed spots in San Antonio. The San […]