Mmm cheese...

Bi-Rite is a local small grocery store in the Mission District.  I got to hang out there recently for the San Francisco Chronicle.  Check out the story and more photos here.

Community garden

Here's another look at some editing - I shot a community garden, the edit from the New York Times is here, and from the Bay Citizen is here.  

 

Baypoint for the NYT and Bay Citizen

More assignment work - I recently shot Baypoint for a story about the economy there.  It's in the east bay, and it was my first time there.  It's interesting now to be working for the New York Times and the Bay Citizen, since they have access to the same photos.  They often pick very different edits of my work, and this was an example.  Below are some of the photos from the shoot, and here's the New York Times edit and the Bay Citizen edit. 

Occupy Oakland closes down port again

Yesterday Occupy Oakland protestors closed down the port again for the day.  They marched there and blocked the port for three separate shift changes. 

 

  

 

  

My first SantaCon

Opposed to Occupy Oakland's tactics

The Chronicle ran a story leading up to yesterday's blockade of the port of Oakland where it featured several people who are active 99% supporters, but who opposed the tactics of Occupy Oakland for one reason or another.  Here are two of them:

"The effectiveness of civil disobedience is being nonviolent," says Marti Roach, an active member of the 99 percent.  She hasn't decided if she will attend the Oakland port blockade planned for Monday, but feels that if crowds swell, people like herself committed to nonviolence should go to keep the peace.

Ellis Goldberg of Danville, the president of the Tri Valley Democratic Club and an active 99 percenter, disagrees with some of the strategies of Occupy Oakland.  "Basically, we're not as confrontational," he said, "When you go in to the port of Oakland and close it down, you're using a bat, and you're hitting the 99 percenters."

 

Tree lighting at City Hall

Sister Pat N Leather, of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, waits to offer her blessing on the "World Tree of Hope" at City Hall in San Francisco.