2006 - A Year of Photos

A couple of years ago I was down at City Hall to listen in to citizen complaints about MUNI. I bumped into a journalist working for China Press who liked the fact that I could communicate in Mandarin. She was disturbed by the fact that I was taking pictures with a throwaway camera and offered to give me an old digital camera that she had outgrown.

I shrugged off her offer-- she was much too kind. But she persisted, and one day I found her outside of my apartment with her old camera in a box.

Wherever she is today, I hope she knows how grateful I am to her for her gift. I carry it around with me all the time and use it to document much of what I see-- particularly streetlife, protests, and famous persons that visit the Bay Area.

(I take a lot of other pictures of the usual stuff-- friends, flowers, my closet etc-- but I doubt that would be interesting to visitors here at Indybay.)

So here for your viewing pleasure are a few photos which I would like to share. They are a record of a few of the things I witnessed here in San Francisco in the year 2006. Don't expect a lot-- I am no pro. I just hope that maybe some of the things I photographed will help jog people's memories about things they themselves saw this past year... things that never seem to make it into the mainstream.

If you would like to see more photos, try this link (I'm not sure if the url works-- e-mail me if it doesn't):