Ivan Makarov Blog

Thoughts on photography, and anything else

Looking back at 2011 – Favorite Images

As we wrap up 2011 and enter 2012, I decided to look back at images I made in the last 365 days and pick my very favorites. As I looked through the collection, I made over 30,000 exposures. However, it was a busy year in many other areas of my life, as we welcomed a [...]

Google+ Book for Charity Project

A bit of a background. Few years ago like most of you I was very active on Flickr. The community was great there and we got together several times and published our own magazine, and a few books focused on photography. Below is a sample of that effort. I had my photos in there, so [...]

San Francisco Morning

Here’s an image I made few weeks ago while shooting sunrise at Treasure Island together with Steve Landeros. There’s something about quiet big city that is so calming.  

Blog is under construction

My apologies if you’re a regular visitor to this blog. I’ve been redoing the blog and how it’s structured, including design and posts. Some of the content is going to disappear as well. The easiest way I know of how to work on the changes is in the live mode. So bear with me. I promise, [...]

New Moon Over San Francisco, B&W

A rework of an older color image I posted. Took a look at it in B&W, and decided I like this more. Which one do you like? You can see the set from Embarcadero Center here. I have a few more images to share from archives later this week.

The Arrival of the April Storm. Big Sur, California.

It’s been the longest time since I uploaded a new photograph online, ever since I started shooting back in 2007. I’ve blogged about the slump in one of my earlier posts. Either way, it’s great to be shooting again. This was taken last Sunday as the new spring storm was arriving to the West Coast. [...]

Point Lobos Now Closed for Sunsets. Why?

Yesterday my family and I decided to drive down to Point Lobos State Reserve. We love that park and haven’t been for a while. The weather was great, warm and partly cloudy. I think Point Lobos is one of the gems on all of the West Coast. It’s perfect for easy hiking as a family, [...]

Creating Daily

I’ve been going through a bit of a slow period with my photography in the past couple of months. I have not been shooting much, and it’s for various reasons. I’d like to just say I’ve been so busy with other things – but it’s not just that. Sometimes we all go through periods when [...]

An Example of Great Customer Service

I recently ordered a canvas image wrap from Canvas on Demand for a friend. The picture is the one of the Oakland Temple, which has not been cropped, so the native resolution of it is 4:6, but the option we ordered was 16:20, which means some cropping would have to occur to fit the image. [...]

Initial Thoughts on the iPad 2

Last week I decided to jump on the iPad bandwagon, and get the newly released Apple iPad 2. Here are some of my initial thoughts after spending most of the weekend playing with it. Why I Finally Bought One When the first iPad came out, I wasn’t all that excited about it. I felt it [...]