Entries tagged with “reflections” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Pity poor Oakland. Playing Newark to San Francisco's New York across the water, Oakland definitely gets no respect. This is the city that gave the "no there" to there, a gritty and high crime urban wasteland. In real life, Oakland is a vibrant place of great variety, from beautiful hills to wildlife to sleek downtown skyscrapers to a controversial new...

I'm not maintaining this photo is a piece of great art per se. But I do believe that if you want to take interesting photos you need to look with fresh eyes at the everyday things around you. We were getting the boys haircuts. At the hair cutting place I saw this mirror and reflections of bottles and the street....

Forgotten in the mythology of Oakland--the high violent crime rate, and the barrios that gave birth to the Black Panthers--is the fact that this is a thriving city. San Francisco, across the Bay, casts a long shadow. It's hard to compete with a sibling so graceful and talented. It's also hard to overcome Gertrude Stein's pithy epigram about the lack...