Ivan Makarov Blog

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Charity Auction Results

The auction for one of my prints that I wrote about earlier is over, and I’m happy to report that the print was sold to Dylin from Madison, WI (who goes by Dylin Holden on Flickr), who donated his winning bid, $200, to a great charity organization Shelter Box, that has three separate operational centers [...]

Auctioning A Print for Haiti Relief Effort

I’m auctioning a 16×20 print of this photo I took at Pebble Beach back in 2007 to help the relief efforts for Haiti earthquake with all the proceeds donated to charity of your choice. The bidding began, and will end at 11.59pm on Sunday, January 17th. For details, click here.

Looking into 2010

The year barely started, and I’m already slacking on one of my resolutions. Human nature, I suppose. Thanks to all those who contributed to my “Best of 2009″ post and shared their thoughts on which shot they liked the best. Now that I got 2009 behind me, it’s time to look into 2010, and set [...]

Wrapping up 2009

Before I outline some of the goals I have for my photography for 2010, I thought I’d share with you some of my favorite images from 2009. As I share these, you can see what kind of things I found myself photographing during this past year. It’s been an interesting year for me. In terms [...]

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 [...]

A bit of News and Playing with Lightroom

I’ve announced it elsewhere on Facebook, Flickr and Twitter, but in case you missed it, I’m a proud father yet again as our second child, this time a girl, was born to us earlier this week on Monday. All is well with her and the mother, and you can see a little lengthier write up [...]

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Minding Their Own Business

Photowalking in Palo Alto

I just got home from the photowalk in Palo Alto that my buddy Thomas Hawk invited me to a while back. The photowalk was organized by Trevor Carpenter (pleasure to meet you, man) and 30+ photographers showed up on this warm day to take pictures together and socialize afterward. The timing of the photowalk couldn’t [...]

Reflections of Light

Downtown San Jose, CA