Inspired by a new lens, I’ve been eager to do more event photography. Rather than brave the crowds and monotony of the Gilroy Garlic Festival this year, I instead chose to attend the Watsonville Strawberry Festival. Held the week after the Garlic Festival about 20 miles away, the Strawberry Festival offered free entry, free parking, […]
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Twenty years ago, Red Bull hosted their first flugtag (German for airshow) competition in Vienna, Austria. It has since grown into a large event held several times a year in different cities around the world, drawing enormous crowds. This year marks the 10th anniversary of Red Bull Flugtag in the United States, where it started
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My previous experience at the 2010 Giants World Series Championship Parade was incredible and unforgettable. Sadly, my 2012 Giants World Series Championship Parade experience was terrible and entirely forgettable. I hopped on the baby bullet Caltrain knowing full well it would be packed for the parade, but I naively thought that it wouldn’t be so
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A quick recap of my first brief flight on Fat Albert Airlines can be found here. While driving home from SFO after my first flight on Fat Albert I was both incredibly excited and somewhat disappointed. Yes, I flew with the Blue Angels in my first non-commercial flight, but we had only been in the
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My buddy Sagar is an editor for a small aviation magazine/website, and with the Blue Angels coming to town for Fleet Week, he planned to write a piece on them. Wanting some photos to go with his story, he contacted the Blue Angels public relations office to try and get a spot aboard Fat Albert,
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Several weeks back I attended my second Comic-Con. Last year I didn’t spend any time in Hall H, so I never got an appreciation for how big it is or how early one needs to get in line to ensure a seat inside. This year I found myself waking up at 4:30 one morning and
Two weeks ago I got to meet Conan O’Brien and wander around Warner Bros. Studio 15, where he tapes his show. A little backstory first: Chrystie’s mom, Gloria, is a ghost hunter. She has been doing it for over 20 years, long before it was popularized by Ghost Adventures and other TV shows. Around Halloween
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Last weekend I joined an estimated million other people in San Francisco taking part in the Fleet Week festivities. Knowing little about the event, I learned it celebrates the end of a 14-month journey around the world of Theodore Roosevelt’s “Great White Fleet” in 1909. This “showcase of American sea power” just drips of Roosevelt
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At the risk of sounding repetitive, Saturday we got up early again to get in line to the convention hall where we again hustled to the Ballroom 20 line to wait an hour or two to see panels. The first panel we saw was for Chuck, a show I’ve never really been interested in so
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Day two began just like day one, waking up before dawn. We hopped in the convention line super early, where we got herded into the hall and quickly walked to get in the Ballroom 20 line. From there we sat on our butts for an hour and watched the line stretch over half a mile…literally.
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