My mom and I drove up to SF together to visit my sister and her boyfriend. Here are some highlights from the trip. My sisters boyfriend Lars had a friend named Talmage who worked at George Lucas’s Industrial Light and Magic so we were able to get a private tour of the facilities in the Presidio and watch their 15 min reel of where they’be been to where they’ve come  in an epic theater with the most amazing surround sound ever. I can’t wait to see their next 3D movie, AVATAR. If it’s anything like the trailer, it’ll have you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Thanks for the tour Talmage. It was really cool.

Richard Avedon, the famous portrait photographer was having an exhibit at the SFMOMA that Lars and I really wanted to see. This is some of his work.

A beautiful morning hike on the north side of the Golden Gate off of Bunker Road. My lovely friend Ruthy joined us for the excursion.

And my sister and I goofing around in her kitchen. Lars was the photographer.

We managed to squeeze in lots of activities in a short amount of time. I love San Francisco for it’s plethora of activity choices, access to nature, colorful and interesting architecture, and so much culture! We parted ways on Sunday morning, my mom stayed one more day and took a flight back and I headed up the 5 to Oregon for my photography workflow workshop with Kevin Kubota.