Photo © Copyright Jim M. Goldstein
Looking at Jim Goldstein’s series of photographs of the Sutro Tower, one is immediately reminded of Claude Monet’s famous series of paintings of haystacks, which captured different types of light across different seasons and at different times of day.
Monet painted these haystacks over 100 years ago in Giverny, France, but what Monet knew then is the same thing professional photographers know today: It really is all about the light.
To underscore this point, Jim took photographs of the Sutro Tower from a chosen point throughout the day. Jim includes an animated time-lapse of the tower taken throughout the day. The Sutro Tower is a giant telecommunications tower which is prominent in San Francisco’s western skyline, and despite complaints from locals, it has become something of a city landmark, whenever it can be spotted poking through the fog that rolls over Mount Sutro on most days.
Akin to what we discussed when talking about one of Michael Reichmann’s essays, “The Art of Photography”, found in the Photobird Learning Center, Jim concludes that the best landscape photography occurs during the “Magic Hour”, that time just before and after sunrise and sunset each day when the light is warmer and less direct.
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