BIOGRAPHY
I live in San Jose, California. I am a Director of Engineering for TripAdvisor.com by day. By night, I am also the host of the Amateur Traveler. The Amateur Traveler is an online travel show that focuses primarily on travel destinations and what are the best places to travel to. It includes both a weekly audio podcast, a video podcast, and a blog. The blog features my photography which is often the only souvenir I usually bring back from my travels and one of the reasons I travel.
Chris Christensen
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RALPH’S TAKE
Chris did well here by capturing a classic view of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The main elements in the frame, namely the bridge with its two towers and the viewing telescope on the right side, make for a nice composition and my eye wants to travel in a triangle between these three parts of the image.
Unfortunately we didn’t have very interesting light that day with the clouds socked in from all around, but this is often the weather conditions one will encounter in San Francisco and so the mood is right on. If I recall it was drizzling just a bit, and so there appear to be some water spots on Chris’s lens here, but those are easily removed in post-processing.
By the way, Chris and I co-hosted a photo tour of Egypt last year with twelve participants and had an incredible experience. Additionally, he was kind enough to have interviewed me on the AmateurTraveler three times so far, once on Travel Photography, once on Travel to Montenegro, and finally on Travel to Chihuahua…have a listen by following these links.
TESTIMONIAL
I joined Ralph on a walking tour of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The challenge for me is that I have walked the Golden Gate Bridge before and even recently. So I was interested to see what new photos or ideas I could get spurred on by Ralph and by the other photographers. I found myself looking at the bridge with new eyes and captured some of my new favorite photos of the area.
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