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Hi! I'm Tristan Tom, a San Francisco Bay Area based photographer shooting mostly portraits, lifestyle, stock and commercial. This blog follows both my personal and professional life. Like most, I’ve got opinions and musings on a diverse range of subjects, some of which will be featured throughout the blog along with my photographic endeavors. I encourage you to leave comments on anything you see or read here. And, tell a friend about it too! Also, here's a short bio.

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Yearly Archives: 2007

Video of a train running through a market

Welcome and thanks for visiting! If you like what you see, you can subscribe to my full RSS feed. Also be sure to check out my Portrait and Dreams galleries. (This message will disappear on subsequent visits.)This video is amazing and whimsical to me, albeit a bit strange. What do you think of it?

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Nell got a new puppy!

My friend Nell got a new puppy and I just had to take some pictures. She’s 7 weeks old in these pictures and a Yellow Lab and German Shepard mix I believe. She’s actually a lot smaller than she looks in these pictures. Isn’t she cute?

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Lou and Laila had twins!

Last weekend, my friend Elvin and I drove up to Sacramento to visit Lou and Laila, who recently had twins. Lou and Laila are great people whom I’ve known for many years (I’ve known Lou since I was in college and still remember the day I met Laila when Lou brought her to a Las...

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Harumi and Ricardo are married!

Harumi and Ricardo (aka Chachi) were married this weekend! They picked a nice intimate setting nestled in the foothills of of San Ramon, California:
It was great photographing the happy couple with their festive flowers and the setting sun as a backdrop:

Harumi sure can work it like a model, especially for a photographer!

The couple share...

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Adobe Photoshop CS3 installation problem

I received my Adobe Photoshop CS3 upgrade last night and when I tried to install it, I got a very unhelpful cryptic error that stated something like “Cannot continue, Photoshop CS3 conflicts”. Remembering that I had installed the beta version of Photoshop CS3 a few months back, I trashed it along with the Adobe Bridge...

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June 28, 2008 - 5:23 pm Adobe Photoshop CS3 Installation Woes | (tt) Tristan Tom - Photographer - [...] while back, I wrote about some serious Adobe Photoshop CS3 installation problems I was having. I said that Adobe’s installer basically [...]

Highway 580 East Freeway Collapse

• Busy interchange collapsed after tractor trailer crashed and caught on fire early morning today, Sunday April 29, 2007
• The trailer was hauling 8,600 gallons of gasoline
• The Truck’s driver suffered second-degree burns
As if this interchange wasn’t bad enough already, traffic in the East Bay is a complete mess and so far officials are not...

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