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Pew Oceans Commission

Califonia's Pacific Coast landscape: Pew Oceans Commission final report.

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Golden Gate Fog

One of the signature landmarks of San Francisco is the Golden Gate Bridge. When photographing for my book on San Francisco Bay, I wanted to cover the movement of the fog which sweeps in off the Pacific many summer afternoons, and then recedes in the morning. Often it flows over the hilltops and shrouds the bridge deck in a white cloth.

There's a small hilltop in Marin Headlands, just above the northern anchorage, which seemed promising as a vantage point. It was a fogbound morning. Driving out there in the predawn darkness I doubted if I'd get anything at all. Sometimes you don't. I parked and hiked the fire trail to the ridgetop; it was windy, dark and cold. With my tripod fixed, and mid-range lens set on my Nikon, I waited.

Imperceptibly, the light changed. A gradual brightening, then visible clouds, then a golden hue as a distant sun rose over the Oakland hills. Then the mist cleared with a swift breeze and the bridge tower appeared.

It was a surprise of course. It always is.

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Texas Flag

After an afternoon photographing an outdoor Living History event at San Antinio's Institute of Texas Cultures, I walked passed the main museum exhibit space just as the museum was closing. The brightly neon lit Texas flag caught my eye and I got a couple of shots, but it needed something else. Quickly seeing a museum docent closing up his desk for the day, I asked if he'd step in front of the lit flag. The result, a bold silhouette with cowboy hat and Texas resolve, has been used in magazine spreads and as a Nikon advertisement.

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Mount Tamalpais

Warm summer days bring an offshore marine fog layer that sits off the coast of San Francisco, sometimes nestling up onto the flanks of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. After a long hike on the mountainside, as the late sun brought an oragne light to the western sky, I saw a solitary hiker on the ridgeline. Framed with a crescent hillside and the clouds below if conveys the airiness of the high peaks and the smallness of man in a vast and wondrous landscape.

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Alutiiq Woman

Photographing this Alutiiq woman at the Alaskan Native Heritage Center in Anchorage I was drawn by her colorful beaded headdress and feathered snowfalling dress. At the end of the portrait session, drawing in close to a simple focus on her eyes framed by beads gave the most engaging image. Often only a small part of the scene is all that is needed to tell the whole story.

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SGN Exhibit on San Francisco Bay

Photographs from David Sanger's book San Franciso Bay – Portrait of an Estuary and the accompanying show at the Oakland Museum will be exhibited at Saint Gregory of Nyssa art space from September 10th to October 29th.

There will be an opening reception on Sunday September 11th from 1pm to 4pm. All are invited. Mark your calendars.

Directions

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Alaska Eagle

On a late Spring evening on Kodiak Island the light lasts forever. Well over an hour after sunset an orange glow lit the sky above the rugged intgerior mountains across Chiniak Bay. As I came slowly up to a bald eagle perched on a cliffside, it quickly took flight and swooped high in the air, gliding on the last light of the day

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Alaska

In May David presented a Digital Imaging and Marketing seminar at the SATW Western Chapter meeting at the Alyeska Resort, Alaska, and then covered Kodiak Island.

Images are at www.davidsanger.com/stock/alaska-satw

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Majestic Muir Coast

This story on Muir Beach ran this fall in Coastal Living magazine.

Muir Beach is a small oceanside community in Marin County just north of San Francisco. This was my fourth assignment for the magazine. Upcoming stories will feature Mendocino and Pacific Grove, California.

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Lone Star Revolution

For ten short years in the 1800's the independent nation of Texas flourished in the grasslands and desert along the Rio Grande, after a hard-fought battle for independence from Mexico. This story photographed for Endless Vacation followed the Texas Independence Trail from the Alamo in San Antonio, to Goliad and Gonzales, and San Jacinto, site the final victory over Santa Ana, to the log cabin at Washington on the Brazos where the Declaration of Independence was signed.

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Do the Zoo

San Diego's world-famous zoo was the subject of this feature photo essay shot for Endless Vacation.

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Riding the Trail

This is a follow-on story on the Texan Independence Trail written for the Emphasis [Hong Kong] magazine Morning Calm

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Islands in the Bay

A bed and breakfast, a bird sanctuary, an immigration station, a penitentiary, sites of a World’s Fair and of primitive Indian villages, rocky and sandy, tree-clad and barren, they are as diverse a collection of habitats as you’ll find in any Bay and well in keeping with San Francisco’s eclectic taste. All are islands in San Francisco Bay and were featured in this story photographed and written for Discovery magazine.

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Grass

How to show the Golden Gate Bridge and not make a cliché? This was the question as I documented the newly restored Crissy Field along the San Francisco waterfront for the National Park Service

It was a bright blue day and the green of the newly planted California bunch grass on the restored meadow caught my eye. Green, blue and the red of the bridge: that was the image! With a Nikon 600mm. lens on a low tripod I lay on the ground and framed the triangle of the bridge tower and cables behind a few tufts of grass. Trying different focus points and apertures for depth of field I selected this shot with a slightly soft but recognizable bridge and the crisp grass caught in the wind.

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Florida's Wild Side

There's more to Florida than Disney. This feature covered some of the lesser well known attractions including Gatorland, Weeki Wachee Springs and Wakulla Springs for Endless Vacation.

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San Francisco Bay Book Prints

All these prints are from David's exhibition at the Oakland Museum, and are taken from the 155 images in his book San Francisco Bay - Portrait of an Estuary with John Hart, sponsored by the national Audubon Society and the Bay Institute of San Francisco.

Prints are available for immediate online purchase, framed or unframed in sizes from 8x10 to 20x30".

Click on the thumbnails to order.

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San Francisco Bay

David's illustrated book San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary with coauthor, California writer John Hart was released in October 2003.

A portrait of San Francisco Bay, the largest estuary system on the west coast of the Americas, this large-format photography book showcases a fragile yet essential centerpiece of life in the Bay Area.

Sponsored by the National Audubon Society and The Bay Institute,San Francisco Bay: Portrait of an Estuary is published by the University of California Press and designed by award-winning designer Jennifer Barry

San Francisco Bay continued....

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The Gentler Coast

The wild California coast of San Luis Obispo County in Central California, from San Simeon to Cambria and Morro Bay, was the subject of this story photographed for Sunset magazine.

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