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Weekly Photo Challenge: Reflections
What makes a powerful image? Content? Color? Tone? Composition? Graphic elements? Luck? I was working in Marin County one day in October of 2012. On my way home, in the late afternoon, I saw that the Sun was going to … Continue reading
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Inside
Okay, so sometimes you have to be an insider to get an inside joke/comment. If you live in or near San Francisco you probably understand the difference between inside the Golden Gate (in the San Francisco Bay) and outside the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bay Area, California, D7000, Image, images, Nikon, Photography, Postaday, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, surf, surfing, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Perspective
A challenging test of perspective: post a photo which is not what it seems to be. I am offering a view of a window frame. Windows often provide our view of the world. The frame holds the window tightly (we … Continue reading
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Tagged California, E-500, Image, macro, Olympus, perspective, Photo Challenge, Photography, Postaday, San Francisco Bay Area, San Mateo County, Weekly Photo Challenge
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Wanting to Improve
Employment trends in the San Francisco Bay Area want to improve. The labor force has stabilized over the past 12 months and employment has steadily grown (with a slowing rate of growth, however). The January 2014 unemployment rate for the … Continue reading
Lost In The Fog
January home sales in the Bay Area followed the year-end December trend. We seem to be lost in the fog. Prices keep rising with a 26%+ increase on a year-over-year basis but sales volume dropped nearly 15% over the same … Continue reading
Where Have All the Sellers Gone?
It’s like blossoms in a drought… you see them, but just a lot fewer than normal. I noticed it a while ago: the corner that is normally full of poppies this time of year is barren except for a few … Continue reading
The Wan Year End
Wan as is pallid and sickly… or so ends the Year 2013 on the employment front. Employment in the Bay Area peaked in September and the labor force reached its zenith in July. The labor force trendline is sloping downward … Continue reading
Winter Sunset
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Tagged Image, images, Photography, poetry, San Francisco, San Francisco Bay Area, sunset, winter
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Poking Along at Year End
Updated data on November 2013 residential real estate prices in the SF Bay Area here https://graphicrealestate.wordpress.com/sf-bay-area-housing-trends/ and November 2013 SF Bay Area employment trends here https://graphicrealestate.wordpress.com/bay-area-employment-trends/ for the data starved. It’s the year-end craziness so I’m a little outta focus. … Continue reading
What Gives?
Between January of 2011 and January of 2013 the Bay Area population increased by 1.9%. So, let’s say population growth is around 1% per year. You would, by inference, expect the labor force to grow by a similar percentage. Over … Continue reading
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