Category Archives: Northern California

From the Heart of the City Farmers Market

Berries and snap peas are in season! Great deals on fresh produce (and organic, sustainably-raised eggs for a fraction of grocery-store prices) at the Civic Center Farmers Market. U.N. Plaza, San Francisco. All day Sunday and Wednesday.
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View from Laguna Street

A shot from my walk down Laguna Street on a foggy morning. Here is a pretty little park near Japantown.
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Dolores Park at Sunset

A shot of Dolores Park, the popular hangout spot that divides the Mission and Castro.
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Bay Bridge at Sunset

San Francisco bound.
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The Wild Cocks of San Juan Bautista

Cockadoodledoo! San Juan Bautista is known for its mission. It is less well known for its feral chicken population. Cocks everywhere. Some hens and chicks, too. They congregate in people’s yards, cross roads in flocks and the roosters of course crow regularly. Local opinions on the feral fowl are mixed. Some celebrate them, others consider them a nuisance. Here’ a splendid specimen of California wild cock.

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Another Giant Lumberjack on US 101

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Icons often outlast their inspirations. Lumber and fishing long since gave way to wine and weed in California’s Mendocino County. This restaurant mascot lumberjack walks roadside forever in Willits. And he’s not the only giant lumberjack on the 101: here is another.

Styles of Masculinity in early 20th Century Photography…Sights Seen in Old Snap Shots

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Plucked from a California photo box in a Sonoma County Antique Mall: boxers, cowboys, dads, dandies, hunters, footballers, motorists, photographers, sailors, soldiers, sons, students, swimmers, tough guys, workers, writers and other interesting men and boys. Vernacular snap-shots from the first half of the twentieth century.

Sights seen at Truck Stops: Old Cowboy buys Smokes on CA Hwy 101

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This guy moved like a twangy old country music tune. Slow, strong and regular. Horseless cowboy traveling California State Highway 101 by truck, he stopped to buy smokes. Got shot in the back and never knew it. One, two, three: Snap!

Karr Asks: “What is it with gay photographers and dogs?” GH responds with Dogs Seen.

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Bay Area Reporter columnist John Karr opens his weekly critique of all things gay and pornographic Karrnal Knowledge with the question: “What is it with gay photographers and dogs?” Good question. No answers here. Just some pictures of dogs. Woof!

Sights Seen at Folsom Street Fair

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Beautiful weather for this year’s Folsom Street Fair brought out the bare skin and the bear skins, the otter skins and plenty of marked up, cut, whipped, scarred and inked skins of every color. The sun shone on all. It was a good year for garden parties, with Donna Sachet‘s Castro district annual and Mike McNamee’s patio BBQ at Stomper’s Boots bookending Rob Ford’s birthday at the Howard Langton Community Garden. A fine Folsom all around.