Ivan Makarov Blog

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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 [...]

Respect for the Ocean – Garrapata Beach

I’m really slow processing the photos from that night, because I’m still bitter about that evening. The evening at Garrapata Beach at Big Sur was going fine. Beautiful light, no wind, big waves (it was the day before the Mavericks competition took place), no one but me and a few teenagers at the beach. What [...]

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.

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 [...]

City Gravity

Chasing the Shadows

The pictures I always find the hardest to take are from those scenes that I see every day.

Plate 10 – Hey Pops!

I debated for a while whether I should include this one or not as part of my portfolio, since it’s pretty much just a family shot, but I thought I would anyway, as this shot is one of a kind in my collection. Those of us who are parents can appreciate how hard it is [...]