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So far Marc Silber has created 292 blog entries.

Classroom Geometry 1964

Classroom Geometry, originally uploaded by marc silber. I took this shot 44 years ago, it was published a few years ago in a photo-essay I did for Gentry Magazine, so I guess you could say it is now my first professional photo. Henri Cartier-Bresson talked about how photography relies on geometry. I agree. I see

5 easy ways to improve your photography

Here are five easy ways to improve your photography: Learn to visualize your image: Get a clear image of what you want as the final picture and control the shot and image processing to get it. Take more photos, take photos daily. The more photos you take (but not shotgun, please) the more you put

Focus on Beauty Exhibit, Palo Alto Daily

"FOCUS ON BEAUTY" EXHIBIT Atherton-based fine art photographer Marc Silber's newest exhibition, "Focusing on Beauty," opened with a reception at the Richard Sumner Gallery in Palo Alto on Feb. 2. The show, featuring 40 years of classic black-and-white photographs, color photographs and recent prints, attracted longtime friends, collectors and several of Silber's students. At the

Snowboards in Tahoe

Colors and patterns can be wherever you find them: trees, grass, sky, or in this case, snowboards.

Shot of the day: Election day

  I took this shot a few minutes ago: sun coming through my huge redwood trees. As it's election day, we have hope of breaking the dark spell we've been under for the last 7 years.

The entrepreneurial neighborhood of Palo Alto, Robert Scoble’s blog entry…

The entrepreneurial neighborhood of Palo Alto Something is in the water in the neighborhood surrounding Emerson Street in Palo Alto. This is the neighborhood that’s brought us Google. Paypal. Facebook. HP. Java. BarCamp. Among other things. But the entrepreneurialism doesn’t end with the big tech names. Gordon Biersch, a popular chain of microbreweries, started on

Focus on Beauty

From Photoicon: www.photoicon.com It’s rare for a professional photographer to give his work away for free, but five decades worth of Marc Silber’s images can now be downloaded in an ebook. SILBER EXPLAINS: "I want to show others what I've seen, that's my passion." However, he is quick to add, "I'm a working artist -