Sheldon Chang
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Sheldon Chang
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Early Internet/BBS Posse (86). Full-stack Drupal developer. Does marketing for small downtowns. Photographer. Former physical therapist. NAFO. Mostly here 👉 sfba.social/@sysop408
My #NoKings day: I delivered a tribute to my Father-in-law, William Edward Stiles Jr, WW2 vet, proud Irishman, civil rights activist, and labor negotiator who defied the KKK to represent Black teachers. He’d be proud that his Asian-American son-in-law was bearing his flag in power.
June 15, 2025 at 11:43 PM
The train ride into the #HandsOff protest in San Jose was a part of the experience. Everyone already on the train would clap and cheer as more sign holding people squeezed into the already packed cars at every stop. And then when we got there, you realized just how many of us there were.
April 6, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today I’m paying tribute to a city with one of the most awesome and honest town mottos. This is sign at the city line of Adelanto, California. It reads “the city WITH unlimited possibilities.”

If you’ve ever been to Adelanto, you’d understand.
June 19, 2024 at 5:22 PM
More food photography from my recent gig of photographing whatever a group of small businesses asked me to shoot. Did this hours after helping a Mexican restaurant. I don’t get the benefit of knowing what I’m shooting. I have to wing it every time & it was rough b/c I hadn’t shot food in years.
November 19, 2023 at 8:35 PM
Got asked to shoot food for the first time since the pandemic and they didn’t make it easy. Got lots of gloppy food that smells great, but has little shape and one 400F dish too hot to move that complicated my ability to position plates. Still pleased enough given the circumstances. #foodphotography
November 18, 2023 at 3:17 PM
Weird things I never thought I'd need to know. Undead Barbie is a hilarious gag, but a horror show to photograph because bright magenta pink really screws up the color cast of spooky photos. Reducing green levels by about 5% and desaturating magenta helps to offset the Barbie color shift.
November 2, 2023 at 4:29 AM
Spending your weekend as Spider Man taking lots of fun #Halloween photos: 10/10!!!

Returning home tired and sore as hell to cull and edit over 2000 photos… 😩
October 31, 2023 at 11:37 PM
Well this sucks. Air quality from NorCal and Oregon fires are hitting pretty hard in the SF Bay Area right now. May linger for a few days. Hope that’s wrong.
September 20, 2023 at 1:43 AM
Looks legit to me.
August 20, 2023 at 6:44 PM
This is the second Walgreen’s pharmacy in a row that gave me a CO2 reading in the 500ppm range. In this one, I can actually hear the ventilation fans going overhead. Most retail spaces check in between 700-800ppm.
August 19, 2023 at 5:00 PM
Capitol Drive-in Movie Theaters in San Jose, CA at sunset is oddly picturesque. Large jets coast right over it from two directions on their way to landing at SJC. This is all the more reason to love the experience or hate it depending on who you are. I’m on team love. Support the drive-in!
August 10, 2023 at 6:55 AM
I recently got reacquainted with the drive-in and it has been a quirky, but great way to enjoy movies. It's so informal and people act like they're in their own living rooms. The occasional odd RV suggests that some may literally be coming to the movies in their living rooms.
#photography #movies
July 31, 2023 at 12:02 AM