Rainy Overcast Shooting On the SF Bay Bridge

By Tom Paiva on

As many of you might know, I have been shooting the construction of the new Eastern Span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge for the past two and a half years.  Because of the monumentality and historic significance of this project, early on I decided to shoot it in large format 4×5.  As with most …

Heavy Los Angeles Rains

By Tom Paiva on

Most people hole up and hide on rainy weekends, especially here in LA.  Normally, I would too, but I had to go out anyway and noticed our local “concrete river”, Ballona Creek, was a raging torrent.  Typically, this is a very placid trickle of water of run-off from watering lawns and folks washing their car, …