Ivan Makarov Blog

Thoughts on photography, and anything else

Month: November, 2009

Fresh

I have few more of more abstract shots to post like the one I posted yesterday, but before I go that route, I wanted to post a more straight forward view of the redwood trees that I caught on the same day. Some photos help us remember not the visual sense of the place, but [...]

Crowd of Redwoods

We hosted my wife’s family this week for Thanksgiving break. On Saturday we headed down to Santa Cruz Mountains for a brief hike in the redwoods forest, and I decided to try something new for me. Redwood trees are rather hard to photograph, and just about every time I tried I walked away with no [...]

Photowalking in San Francisco

Yesterday me and few of the DMU photographers got together with San Francisco Photography Meet Up Group for their meet up that took place in Dolores Park in San Francisco. While we were supposed to shoot the skyline, we end up shooting fire dancers who came along. I shot 300 or so frames of them, [...]

Feeling Dizzy

There are times when it pays off to take a step back from the photos and come back to them weeks later. This was shot back in July, during Scott Kelby Photowalk in San Francisco, and I have only noticed the original file today, thinking it may be another addition to my developing set from [...]

The World of Concrete

Financial District, San Francisco The amount of concrete and all geometrical elements in this place is almost overwhelming.

An Interview With Ivan Makarov (yes, me!)

If you have a moment, check out an interview I did with guys at Caliber SF, new blog with San Francisco street and documentary theme that a group of photographers recently launched. They’ve interviewed me about my photography, about how I learn and how I keep myself motivated and about a couple of my favorite [...]

Traffic Lines

I’ve been rather slow uploading new photos and even taking them recently, as too much is going on at home, at work and elsewhere. But I am still going through my archives from last summer when I shot a lot and trying to see what else I can find. This is another shot from the [...]