https://terryschmidbauer.net/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-05 https://terryschmidbauer.net/home-page daily 1.0 2025-07-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/f940a3bb-4dfd-46af-b590-21ee774480c0/sun_break.jpg https://terryschmidbauer.net/project-finding-estrella daily 0.75 2025-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/2be6a526-b1b1-4bc8-b907-986e4d1c5ce5/title+screen.jpg Finding Estrella In Finding Estrella, I capture the disappearing vistas of Estrella Mountain on a 4x5 film camera while reflecting on the emotional and environmental disconnect between modern life and the natural world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/a54a3218-4624-4bb0-94bf-6bf2b2c9e8d8/INT-250506-A-02.jpg Finding Estrella "Evening Shift": At twilight, Estrella Mountain looms quietly behind a newly built warehouse, its silhouette brushed by the glow of desert clouds. The building feels like a placeholder in contrast to the ancient permanence of the mountain. The image captures a moment of transition, where the natural and built environments coexist but remain disconnected. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/850861d4-5868-4280-89c0-df8b4b0e0efc/INT-250604-CS400-C-04.jpg Finding Estrella "Entry Level": the soft wash of a fading sunset, glowing lamps and the architectural lines all contribute to a surreal tension between the built environment and the natural one, suggesting that our access to nature is increasingly structured, elevated, and removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/46c63e3d-6237-47b4-87df-a10a0dbbc7f4/int-250406-c-4.jpg Finding Estrella “Reframed” From this vantage point, Estrella Mountain appears almost incidental, relegated to the distance behind construction sites. The clean geometry of the balcony in the foreground mirrors the repetitive barriers below, highlighting how even elevated views in new developments offer only a controlled glimpse of the natural world. This image reflects how vertical growth does not bring us closer to nature, but often frames it as decoration, visible, but unreachable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/6c4be5ef-6994-4bf4-94d9-0b1ef2894098/INT-250504-A-02.jpg Finding Estrella “Groundwork” Rows of concrete pipe stretch toward Estrella Mountain, forming a visual path that simultaneously leads to and away from the landscape beyond. The branded construction barriers and industrial materials assert ownership over the land, framing the mountain as a future backdrop to yet another phase of development. This image captures a moment when the land is neither wild nor built, caught in transition, its future already scripted in concrete. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/473069a2-b95b-467f-a0cd-a90195a39d52/INT-250430-A-01.jpg Finding Estrella "Final Approach": Estrella Mountain rises in majestic contrast to the long line of grounded aircraft that stretch across the horizon. This juxtaposes the permanence of the natural landscape with the transience of human activity. This photo reflects the project's central tension: how progress can slowly shift our connection to the land into something more distant and abstract. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/4dc24834-1497-475e-9363-202920b958ba/FndEst-factor-parking.jpg Finding Estrella "Paved Paradise" Estrella Mountain lingers in the distance, its presence muted by layers of asphalt and infrastructure. What was once open desert is now a grid of vacancy, nature edged out by concrete progress. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/511c8146-1a50-4335-8d34-044a2e594bc7/Finding+Est-Airport+Mountain+%282%29.jpg Finding Estrella “Grounded”: Captured near the airport at golden hour, Estrella Mountain rises quietly behind a lineup of parked planes. The grounded aircraft echo a stillness, paused symbols of movement, that contrast with the immovable permanence of the mountain. This view reflects a rare moment of alignment between industrial sprawl and natural form, revealing how even spaces of global transit are not immune to the slow, quiet erasure of place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/74049b78-f2a8-41f9-bab6-08e87809651a/-INT-250415-C-08-Pano-positive.jpg Finding Estrella "Unnatural Separation": This capture is a quiet commentary on encroaching urbanization and how it separates us from the natural world. The signs form a manmade barrier that cuts across the frame and subtly extends beyond it, suggesting a boundary not just of space, but of perception. The mountain remains visible, but distanced, fragmented by the development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/974a990e-4dd0-4efc-9ead-dd3b768eb2d4/-IPD-011-07-Pano-positive.jpg Finding Estrella "Between the Lines" The mountain waits beyond shingles and stone, a quiet silhouette at the border of sprawl. Once horizon, now backdrop Estrella lingers where the open sky used to begin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/873a0b8b-34c4-4fc5-bd50-3e867b50f236/-int-250407-c-08-Pano-positive.jpg Finding Estrella "After Glow": the glow of a fast-food chain creates a veil between the viewer and the mountain. This speaks to how even the most grand and enduring landmarks can be eclipsed by the conveniences of modern development. In Finding Estrella, this image serves as a example on how we forget to look past the glow of what’s immediate to rediscover what is enduring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/d51308f4-546f-4d59-88d7-521af673eeaa/INT-25-07-19-C-06-scn.jpg Finding Estrella The Divide: A band of morning light cuts across the empty lot, tracing the last open path to the mountain. The new development looms like a gate, neat and closed, while Estrella Mountain lingers beyond—distant, unchanged, and slowly edged out of view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/84c90c6b-0ab0-4305-847a-75e884609761/INT-250721-H-01.jpg Finding Estrella Sky Catcher: A weathered tree stands sentinel at the edge of a field, its branches reaching toward Estrella Mt. as if remembering what once was. Development creeps in from the margins, but here, just for a moment, the land still breathes between what’s lost and what remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/3df4c673-045f-4a1a-a117-097db1627793/INT-250722-H-01.jpg Finding Estrella New Horizon: A veil of golden cloud drifts over Estrella Mountain as warehouses line the horizon, new silhouettes against an old spine of the land. 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Fleeting gestures and everyday moments are distilled into stillness: a glance, a pause, a shared silence. Shot across cafés, sidewalks, and transit lines, these images reveal a city of contrasts, light and fog, solitude and crowd, past and reinvention. Each frame is a brief act of presence, a reminder that San Francisco lives not in landmarks, but in the lives passing through them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/d7a578c8-55d8-4f78-beec-a384dd1d6410/200207-32006.jpg The San Franciscans "Neon Conversations" Framed by a neon sign, a small group leans into the night, talking, waiting, drinking in silence. The moment feels both intimate and public, shared behind glass but open to the street. In a city known for movement, this is a quiet pause: a brief glimpse of connection in the hum of urban life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/10aeeb4a-8fd3-4a8c-aa49-67e4992469b0/190817-30091.jpg The San Franciscans "Chinatown Light" A woman stands in the sliver of sunlight slicing through a Chinatown side street, caught between shadow and city. This image captures a pause in motion—a private moment in a public space, where past, present, and person briefly align in the sharp geometry of light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/42f2baf2-ee17-4b8c-9e1e-75df22551aad/200204-31831.jpg The San Franciscans "Shadow Walk" Late light stretches city dwellers into silhouettes, their shadows weaving across pavement and glass. Legs in motion, forms blurred by reflection, this moment captures the city’s daily rhyth, anonymous, fleeting, and full of motion. In San Francisco, even a sidewalk becomes a stage for passing presence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/d9484256-df73-4361-b8cb-6cffb24e06b3/130919-0290.jpg The San Franciscans "The Messenger" On a tilted street, he steadies his load—wheels and will tested by the daily climb. In "The City" each hill's a burden, each ride's a quiet vow to keep going, no matter how steep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/ef93e23f-8483-4183-ab7a-ed00d3a5bac3/190419-24594.jpg The San Franciscans "Exit Above" Figures rise from shadow into daylight, scattered across stairs and escalator like notes on a scale. This moment captures that daily climb, where each person carries their own weight into the light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/619cf4e5-475f-4e89-8b7e-37099fbf1f76/140521-0114.jpg The San Franciscans "Mist & Message" Amid the roar of a downtown fountain, a lone figure pauses, absorbed in their phone as water rains around them. The spray blurs the noise of the city, holding a moment of stillness in motion. In San Francisco, even in the chaos, there's room for reflection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/9031d588-21bb-47e3-9150-8f5060794d58/131008-0044.jpg The San Franciscans "Curbside Pause" A man sits alone on the curb, framed by towering columns and glass, caught in a shaft of morning light. Around him, the city moves on. His stillness carves out a moment of reflection amid the bustle. In San Francisco, even the sidewalk holds space for quiet resilience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/e820438c-1f26-48a7-962d-bdf68ee979f5/130926-0030.jpg The San Franciscans "Marble Silence" In a sunlit atrium, two men talk quietly as others drift through the stillness. The space feels both civic and sacred, a pause from the rush outside. In The San Franciscans, even quiet corners hold the city’s voice, softened by light, echoed in stone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/eb5d479e-d8b2-4d7b-8ba2-1303f42f4162/130919-0288.jpg The San Franciscans "One Wall, Two Worlds" Two men sit feet apart, divided by more than distance, one scrolling, the other unpacking life from a bag. Behind them, glass towers reflect a city of contrasts. In The San Franciscans, this is the quiet geometry of inequality, side by side, but worlds apart. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/cd43a964-1593-4766-a3fd-a62cde7e5cdb/130819-0091.jpg The San Franciscans "The Reach" In a storefront bursting with pattern and color, two women reach, consider, and chat. The moment is small, familiar, part of the city’s daily rhythm. In The City, connection often happens in the simplest exchanges, woven into fabric, conversation, and the street itself. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/393e40bb-faf5-438f-bada-72f1ecfa31f5/130816-0001.jpg The San Franciscans "Morning Bloom" Tucked between stone facades and glass towers, a flower vendor arranges blooms in the early light. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/92951c80-92eb-457f-ab84-6648be1048f6/130203-15512.jpg The San Franciscans "Bay Walk" Beneath the weight of bridge and ship, people walk the waterfront, small silhouettes against towering lines of steel and hull. In The San Franciscans, it’s the space between structures where the human rhythm lives, steady and quiet against the scale of the city. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/1f2d62fb-0b5e-48eb-a373-ef73751e87dc/130802-0008.jpg The San Franciscans "Newsstand Conversation" In a city of fast scrolls and silent feeds, a newsstand becomes a place of pause. Two men trade words beside headlines and old magazines, an exchange that feels timeless amid the blur of Market Street. This image honors the quiet rituals that still anchor San Francisco’s daily rhythm. https://terryschmidbauer.net/about-1 daily 0.75 2025-09-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68588bcd73c5ba2dd49fd4ca/90b2351e-7992-41fe-b0e6-29653ccf2867/Day+83.jpg