About Adventures of a GoodMan
My name is Greg Goodman, and this is the magazine of my life.
. . . .Through it, I invite you to join me on a virtual photographic trip around the world, complimented by stories and multimedia from the road.
Think of the site as my answer to the age-old question: I traveled; now what?
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Tour the Superbowl-Bound San Francisco 49ers Stadium: Candlestick Park
Take a photo tour of Candlestick Park, home of the San Francisco Giants football team. With seats for 70,000 fans, you can imagine the energy that fills the stadium.
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Line Up the Painted Ladies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
It’s as if someone dipped a brush in rainbow paint and spread it across the city of San Francisco, California. Explore photographs of Painted Ladies and learn their history.
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Happy Birthday, Golden Gate Bridge!
Since moving to San Francisco, I’ve been excited to walk across the Golden Gate Bridge on its 75th anniversary. I wasn’t able to, but here are some of my favorite photos instead.
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Lighthouse Sunset on the Pacific Coast Highway – Montara, California
Point Montera Lighthouse is a working lighthouse AND a hostel. Plus, it has pretty amazing sunsets!
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5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About San Francisco
The works I’ve selected for my top 5 consist of my absolute favorite photos and stories from my two years of living in San Francisco, California.
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Electric Wires in the Sky & Trolleybuses in San Francisco
When I first moved to San Francisco in 2009, I was very bothered by the “ugly wires” that ran above the streets. Teeming with a strong electric current, these wires power a fleet of zero emission MUNI trolleybuses. Now, I consider them a part of the City’s charm.
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Epic Baseball Road Trip: 5 Stadiums – 5 Days – 1,260 Miles of Driving
Photos, stories & time-lapse videos from 5 baseball stadiums: St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Cleveland Indians, Pittsburgh Pirates and Detroit Tigers.
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The Curviest Street in the World: San Francisco’s Lombard Street
I still remember driving down Lombard Street – the crookedest street in the World – on a family vacation to California and San Francisco when I was 7.
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Raw Footage of Riding the Rails in South San Francisco
As much as I love the beautiful drive, my favorite way of commuting between San Francisco and San Jose, California, is on CalTrain. Instead of fighting traffic or boredom, I can plop down in a nice comfy seat, take off my shoes, put my feat up and have some “me time.”
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Zen, Tranquility and Fog at Yosemite National Park
High up on Glacier’s Point in Yosemite National Park, the fog rolls across the landscape like an eternal wave and brings with it a tranquil silence.
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I Caught a Foul Ball at Angels Stadium (+ Fisheye Photography)
A wave of pure childhood glee swept over me as I started screaming in the least-manly way possible, “Oh my god! I just caught a foul ball!” I also spent a few innings capturing every inch of the stadium with a fisheye lens.
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What I Did Last Night: San Francisco Photography
One of my favorite things to do is to spend an evening searching through my archives and editing a whole bunch of photos. Sometimes they all are of a similar theme (like this one of San Francisco), and others they are completely unrelated.
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A Google+ Adventure Around San Francisco
When the Interwebs meet real life… I joined 30 Google+ photographers in San Francisco to wander around and take pictures of the city’s buildings, bridges, construction sites, sculptures and urban swagger. What follows are a dozen of my best shots as well as stories of what it was like meeting these complete strangers.
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Driving America by McDonalds, Subway, Best Buy, Costco & More
I drove across America via Route 66 to see classic diners, motels, and kitschy stores. However, along the way it was impossible to ignore the never-ending views of McDonalds, Subways, Best Buys and other chain stores.
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Factories, Art, Industrial Decay, Vessels and Dinner in Oakland, California
Large industrial warehouses and captivating urban decay dominate the area surrounding 16th Street in Oakland, California, where I had the pleasure of showing some of my photography during the Local Social Vessels event last month.
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Timelapse Videos: Summer in San Francisco Sure is Cold and Foggy!
When I moved across the country from New York City to San Francisco, I thought I was coming out for a slice of the good life with California weather. Daily shorts and flip flops were my dream, though once I got here I soon realized that sweatshirts and layers were …
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The Oakland Athletics’ O.co Coliseum: With a Fisheye
Unique fisheye photography of the home of the Oakland Athletics baseball club, O.co Coliseum, from all levels of seats and all areas of the stadium taken with a 10.5mm lens.
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Extreme Curves in Yosemite National Park
Yosemite National Park is filled with curvy roads, though none are as intense as the one bringing visitors thousands of feet up into the clouds to gawk at Half Dome, Nevada Falls and the whole of Yosemite Valley from Glacier Point.
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Neon, Fuel, Pavement and Americana on Route 66: A Photographic Series
For 13 days, I drove across Route 66 from East to West armed with my camera and laptop to record the whole adventure. Neon, Fuel, Pavement and Americana on Route 66, chronicles the people, places, gas stations, kitschy roadside attractions and feeling of having stepped into a time machine that made it the most memorable road trip of my life.
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A Ring of Fog Around Yosemite’s Nevada Falls: Photo of the Day
A recent trip to California’s Yosemite National Park found Ansel Adams’ famous place of inspiration shrouded in a dense fog that only got thicker the further up I went. Upon arriving at Glacier Point, I found a wall of white and gray separating me from a view of Half Dome and Nevada Falls.
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Travel Back in Time on San Francisco’s Historic Streetcars: Photo of the Day
Regardless of where I’m heading in San Francisco, I always try and find a way to take the historic F line streetcar. A lover of the rails since my father and I first set up a Lionel train in my childhood bedroom, I think these rolling museums may be my favorite part of the city.
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Giant Blue Whales in Oklahoma on Route 66
Referred to as Blue by those who maintain him, Catoosa’s most famous whale is a must-see on Route 66 in Oklahoma. Situated on the shore of a pond, the wooden structure has a water slide and a pair of ladders so visitors can climb up and view the vista from the whale’s head or tail.
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Living With the Hippies in Haight-Ashbury
Best known for being home to the hippie revolution in the 1960s, San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury it still a magnet for travelers, drifters, tourists and hippies of all ages, shapes and sizes. To honor it, I present to you the story of my experiences and observations from living a block off of that famous intersection.
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Dramatic Changes: Before and After Train Station Photography With Photoshop
Photoshop allows me make my images look like you’re viewing them through a pair of polarized sunglasses, which is certainly my favorite way to view the day. Take a look at the adjustment layers I used to transform a muted photo into the vibrant memory I have of train tracks in a traditional California town.
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Champs Come Home: The San Francisco Giants’ 2011 Home Opener
A photo essay of the San Francisco Giants World Series champs’ return to AT&T Park during the 2011 home opener. Giant American flags, jet flyovers, extra innings victories and a video of Brian Wilson hoisting the World Series flag.
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Rainy Days in San Fran: Phone Photography
My first update directly from my Sprint EVO camera phone. Below are some pics from the non-stop rain we’ve been having here on San Francisco lately. Guess it must be spring!
Supermoon Skies in San Francisco
During Supermoon 2011, I walked my tripod up and down the street I live on in San Francisco pointing it up at the sky while brightly lit white clouds floated past a deep blue sky. I guess I didn’t think about how it might appear to my neighbors…
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California Route 66: From Needles to Santa Monica – the End of the Road
Sure I finished the drive over a year ago, but this blog post has just been sitting on my computer since then. As I continued on Route 66 from Arizona into California, I found that I really had to eliminate the majority of my final stops due to a dinner …
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San Francisco Giants World Series Celebration Photo Essay
For the first time since moving to California from New York City in 1958, the San Francisco Giants are the World Series champions of Major League Baseball. After trouncing the Texas Rangers in 5 games, the team returned to the City by the Bay on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, for …
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MC Hammer’s Still Got It: 20 Years Later
The chants of “go Hammer, go Hammer, go Hammer, go!” were all we needed to hear to know we were almost at the stage. Playing a children’s benefit at 10:30am on the first day of the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, MC Hammer was in prime form and belted out hits …
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- Tour the Superbowl-Bound San Francisco 49ers Stadium: Candlestick Park
- Line Up the Painted Ladies in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury
- Happy Birthday, Golden Gate Bridge!
- Lighthouse Sunset on the Pacific Coast Highway – Montara, California
- 5 Posts I’m Really Proud Of About San Francisco
- Electric Wires in the Sky & Trolleybuses in San Francisco
- The Curviest Street in the World: San Francisco’s Lombard Street
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- Epic Baseball Road Trip: 5 Stadiums – 5 Days – 1,260 Miles of Driving
- Driving America by McDonalds, Subway, Best Buy, Costco & More
- Neon, Fuel, Pavement and Americana on Route 66: A Photographic Series
- Giant Blue Whales in Oklahoma on Route 66
- California Route 66: From Needles to Santa Monica – the End of the Road
- A History Lesson From a Hobo in Two Guns, Arizona
- Jokes, Americana and Burritos at Delgadillo’s Snow Cap Drive-In
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- Driving America by McDonalds, Subway, Best Buy, Costco & More
- Neon, Fuel, Pavement and Americana on Route 66: A Photographic Series
- Giant Blue Whales in Oklahoma on Route 66
- California Route 66: From Needles to Santa Monica – the End of the Road
- Route 66 Enhanced – a Set on Flickr
- Snow, Rain, Hobos and More Americana in New Mexico and Arizona: Highlights
- A History Lesson From a Hobo in Two Guns, Arizona
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