Ivan Makarov Blog

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Month: March, 2010

Spring Enters Yosemite

I just got back from a day trip to Yosemite, which I took on Monday. The spring there is in the air. The trees are getting green, the waterfalls are big, and the crowds are still few. In fact, before taking this shot, I was at the popular “Valley View” spot nearby, and for a [...]

Elusive Light, Garrapata Beach

This is another shot from an outing with Patrick Smith to the Big Sur where we witnessed what probably was the best light of the season. The color was changing every minute in different parts of the sky and we had to be aware of what was going by taking our eyes off the viewfinder. [...]

San Jose Sharks’ Dan Boyle Uses My Photo On His Web-Site

How about that as a way to start your Saturday? If you know me a little bit, you’ll know that I am a huge hockey fan. I grew up in Russia and this is a sport I played on my high school team. I’m also a big soccer fan, but since moving to US, my [...]

Warm Winter at Garrapata Beach

When I was in my junior year of college, I had to pick a location where I wanted to work and live following my graduation. I wasn’t going back to Moscow where I grew up, as I decided to stay in the States for a while. I did not want to live where winters are [...]

Adobe Announces CS5 Launch Date

Just got this in my email – Today, Adobe started letting the world know that CS5 will be launched on April 12th, 2010. We are revealing our launch date to give the creative community time to register for our global online launch event that will take place on Adobe TV on April 12th (8 a.m. [...]

Why You May or May Not Want to Switch to Google Chrome

About a month or so ago Google came out with an updated version of its browser Chrome that now supports extensions, a feature that have kept me on Firefoxfor about five years now, among other things. I decided to try it out for a few weeks to see if I should make a switch permanently. [...]

Wave Stoppers, Garrapata Beach

I still have a few more photos left to post from the previous outings to the Big Sur in the past few weeks, so here is another one. I have a feeling that our winter is now over and we’re slowly entering a period of boredom when weeks pass by without a cloud in the [...]

Trio, Garrapata Beach

And yet another photo from the Garrapata Beach. Do you think I like this beach? Before the winter began I set a goal to build a winter set from a spot or several spots around the Big Sur area. It just happened that this place turned out to be Garrapata Beach, a place I visited [...]