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Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by marcuskaz on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:36AM (#39204278)
Not a book, and a bit self promotional, but I have a small photo series I worked on https://mkaz.com/silicon-valley/

Also, look for Silicon Valley '07 by Gabriele Basilico, it's a photo book - not a huge coffee table book but pretty good with about 80-100 photos from 2007

Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by ChrisArchitect on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:57AM (#39205315)
Nice work. That Sun Microsystems one should be the same as the Facebook one, but the back of that sign ;) (as I see you've included in the FB writeup. Good show)
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by themerone on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:22AM (#39205613)
I like your photos, but you should use small thumbnail images, instead of having the browser scale the full size images to thumbnail size.
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by marcuskaz on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:55AM (#39206076)
Probably, looks like I'm going to hit my bandwidth limits on Vercel hobby tier. ;-)
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by justusthane on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:42AM (#39204351)
I love your exterior building shots. Is that film, filters, or post processing (if you don’t mind)?
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by marcuskaz on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @09:48AM (#39204419)
Thanks! The majority of them are digital, most with a Fujifilm camera either X-T1 or X-PRO2 depending on when they were taken. I do shoot a fair amount of film, so a couple will be Kodak Portra. I prefer the film aesthetic so my digital presets aim for that look.
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by yitchelle on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:30AM (#39204968)
I got a X-T1 about 6 months ago from eBay for around 250€. It does a wonderful job of films simulation. Still very surprised that a 10year old camera can take such wonderful pictures.
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by zerojames on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:25AM (#39204894)
I love this! Amazing work!
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by vclouder on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:11AM (#39204717)
Love it, thanks for sharing.
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by kopirgan on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @07:29PM (#39211463)
Very nice.. There's a lot of history in some of those buildings
Re:Ask HN: Any good Silicon Valley Photo coffee table books? by walton_simons on Thursday February 01, 2024 @07:57AM (#39215459)
I really love this. It makes me feel weirdly nostalgic, even though I've never been to California, or indeed the US. As a tech-obsessed teenager in the 90s, some of the older companies here felt almost mythical at the time. Plus lots of California generally would show up in so much pop culture, films, music videos and so on, and the sort of vintage-y vibe I'm getting here feels really reminiscent of that.