Have You Seen Him?

This one’s for all the old school wood-pushers out there. Pictured here is Emerson “Won Ton Animal” Chin, the inspiration behind Powell Peralta’s legendary skateboarding film, “The Search for Animal Chin" [...]

A gang of updates...

I added a gang of updates to the "Portfolio" section yesterday, which was long, long overdue. Click here to take a gander [...]

CaliberSF: New Year, New Ventures

Sorry I’ve been away for a minute.  Life’s been keeping busy.  I have some writing projects in the works that I hope to post soon.  I’m really getting into human interest stories and find great enjoyment in talking with and photographing the people I meet on the street [...]

Diligence

I snapped this photo last week Tuesday, December 29, outside of the Old Navy store on the corner of Fourth and Market streets, an intersection teeming with foot traffic [...]

George Nottle: Strumming on Mission

I met George Nottle in late October 2009 while shooting photos downtown on my lunch break.  Dressed in a grayish, somewhat frayed, loose-fitting fitting suit and white New Balance sneakers, George was strumming his guitar, deep in concentration, on the fringes of Jessie Square on Mission Street [...]

Stockton Street Encounter

It’s a lively December afternoon in San Francisco’s Chinatown.  The air outside is crisp yet warm enough not to need a coat.  An elderly Caucasian woman standing less than 5-feet-tall, carrying a cane half her size and dressed in an oversize navy blue hooded sweatshirt, fleece hat and plaid scarf exits a Chinese convenience store on Stockton Street, between Clay and Sacramento streets. [...]

My Poetry

The photo above is of my good friend Hugh Gregory, a.k.a. Hugh-EMC, a San Francisco-based rap artist.  Hailing from The City’s Fillmore District, Hugh is revered by many as being one of the founding fathers of Bay Area hip-hop [...]

Tim the Keyboard Man

Meet Tim the Keyboard Man.  San Francisco Bay Area residents may recognize Tim.  He’s a street musician here in The City.  Tim can usually be found playing old saloon style toons during business hours on various street corners throughout the Financial District [...[

Hella Pop

This here is a pic of my good friend Sean R.  I've known Sean for about 17 years now.  We met through skateboarding in the early-to-mid ‘90s, many moons before mainstream media and corporations had their paws in the cookie jar [...]

Through Their Lens: Travis Jensen

I have a little interview up on San Francisco-based photography website CaliberSF.  I’m a big fan of the photographers behind the site, so I was honored when they approached me about doing an interview [...]

He Loved Her Madly

I shot this portrait roughly two weeks ago while out shooting at lunch with comrade Derek Poon (4Fifteen).  We were walking back from Chinatown (I know we always shoot there) when we ran into this man on Pine Street, between Battery and Front streets [...]

October Photo Pageant

Below is a pageant of random photos from October.  As you can see, the shutter bug has been rather strong this month.  (Actually, some of these photos, like the first eight or so, are from late September.)  [...]

I See Angels: San Francisco Fleet Week 2009

Another San Francisco Fleet Week has come and gone.  The weather put somewhat of a damper on this year’s festivities [...]

"I Live Here: SF: Travis"

I was recently featured as part of the popular “I Live Here: SF” project, an online feature profiling various San Franciscans as subjects.  The project is a collaboration between the subject and project founder and photographer Julie Michelle (a.k.a. “TangobabySF”) [...]

Five days of work, one whole day to play!

’Im so glad the weekend is finally here.  It’s been a rough-and-tumble week.  I’m pooped.  We (the Jensen clan) are heading to Sonoma tomorrow morning for a little R&R [...]

New Toys

I purchased a new DSLR camera a few weeks back.  It’s a Canon, of course. I was due for an upgrade.  My dad actually pulled the trigger on my old camera, two lenses and a handful of accessories.  I gave him a hell of a deal on the outfit.  He seems to have a slight case of the shutterbug [...]

“Weekly Ink: SF Tribute” Interview from SF Weekly site.

I have an interview up on the SF Weekly site focusing on my San Francisco Ferry Building tattoo [...]

Clearance Rack

My wife and I decided to walk to the newly opened discount bookstore yesterday evening.  The discount store is just an annex of the regular bookstore.  The two stores are located a block-and-a-half from one another [...]

Artist Andrew Schoultz Studio Visit + Mural Opening and Fundraiser Info

Last week, I went to visit longtime friend and artist Andrew Schoultz at his San Francisco Mission District studio.  After getting some sneak peaks of new work in progress, we headed down the street to check out the large-scale mural he had recently completed at the home of world-renowned Architect David Baker [...]

Among Giants

Last week, I had the fortunate opportunity to venture back up on the roof of Embarcadero Center 2 (EC2) in San Francisco’s Financial District. The tower, constructed by John Graham & Associates, Inc in 1974, sits 413ft (126m) in the sky with 31 floors, higher than approximately 95% of the rest of The City [...]

Pictures Speak Volumes

This is a picture of my Grandfather Stanley L. Jensen (left) and Great Uncle Al (right) in downtown San Francisco back in 1942.  The photo was taken on Market Street, between 6th Street and the intersection where Mason and Turk streets meet.  You can see the historic Esquire Theatre in the background [...]

Out and about

Below are a string of shots from this week and last, all of which were fired off along the Embarcadero and in Chinatown.  I have so much fun gallivanting through the streets, camera dangling around my neck, looking and feeling like a tourist in my own city [...]

Basement Sessions

My buddy Josh Sullivan sent over some old Polaroid skate photos of him shredding a basement mini ramp that he and some friends built back in Oakton, VA.  Josh says the photos are from 1989, but they look a little older than that to me.  I’m thinking 1988.  Photo credit goes to Brent Christian (Rest in Peace 12/05/74 to 9/12/2007) [...]

Parachute Men: T-Mobile takes to the sky

Yesterday afternoon, T-Mobile dropped 100 skydivers over San Francisco as part of a promotion for their new HTC myTouch 3G Phone. Using Google’s new Android operating system, the phone is T-Mobile’s equivalent to the Apple iPhone, except better (according to T-Mobile) [...]

No excuses really

Dang, I can’t believe I haven’t updated the site since Friday, July 24.  That’s almost two weeks, which is definitely a record for me.  I’m usually on it.  I thought I was slacking when I went more than three days without an update [...]

Overlooking City Lights

I shot these pics of San Francisco-based rappers HughEMC and CoBlooded on the balcony of my home a few weeks back.  Although it’s been ridiculously windy and foggy up on the hill as of late, the balcony has become somewhat of a hotspot for photo opts [...]

Product Testing with Benny Gold and Hoops

So, I was finally able to get out on the skateboard last week for the first time since the Stan Man was born.  I was rolling with friends Benny Gold and Hoops, two family men in their 30s that still shred hard [...]

San Francisco's Finest

Alas, here are the photos from the HughEMC, Rappin’ 4-Tay, Fly Mar, Co-Blooded and cast show and photo shoot at City College of San Francisco (my old stomping grounds) last month [...]

Stop Hatin' On Me!

Just found out that Bay Area rap legend and friend HughEMC used one of my photos for the cover of his new album, “Stop Hatin’ On Me.”  Looking good! [...]

June Strays

Below is a bouqet of stray photos from last June.  The photos are a mix of digital and film.  I can no longer leave home with just one camera [...]

Back to the Berg' Photos and Commentary

I know, these are ridiculously late, but better late than never, right?  The reason I didn’t post the photos sooner is because I thought the two shots of Anti Hero Rider Chris Pfanner at the bottom were going to be used for something else [...]

Black and White Adventures Round 2

These photos come from two rolls of Kodak BW400CN that I shot using my vintage Canon AE-1P.  I’m really enjoying shooting with this camera. The sound of the shutter is mesmerizing [...]

Random Snappers

Here are a couple random snaps from the last couple of weeks.  Right now, I’m sitting on about 1,000 unprocessed pics, half of which come from a recent event and photo shoot at City College with Bay Area rap legends HughEMC, Rappin’ 4 Tay, Fly Mar and company [...]

An Afternoon with Hoops

A few weeks back, I spent the afternoon skating and shooting photos with Julien Kidd, a.k.a. “Hoops.”  The two of us have been friends for about seventeen years now.  We met through skateboarding, of course [...] 

Fresh out the box: Olajuwan Mitchell

It’s a balmy June morning in San Francisco’s Financial District.  The cable car turnaround next to the Embarcadero Hyatt Regency Hotel on Market and Drumm streets is teeming with commuters.  47-year-old Olajuwan Mitchell lights two large sticks of incense and sticks them into the dirt surrounding the base of a small tree [...]

Home Street Home

This collection comes from several different missions around The City, mostly around FiDi, downtown and Soma [...]

On the dope track

Last Saturday, after having a late lunch with gonzo journalist Isaac Mckay Randozzi at Pancho Villa on 16th at Valencia Street in the city’ vibrant Mission District, the two of us decided to take a stroll up Mission Street to snap photos and absorb the scenery [...]

A collector of things and such

This gallery is for the collectors.  By the way, have you read "Needle in a Haystack" yet? [...]

Where old and new San Francisco meet

Below are some snaps from a recent weekend drive with my wife through Glen Park and Diamond Heights, two small and often overlooked neighborhoods located in the southern quadrant of San Francisco [...]

"Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin in the scene with a gangster lean"

A few weekends back, I went on a skate mission to the Peninsula with Sean Renos and Chris Long.  We were rolling straight William DeVaughn steez -- “Diamond in the back, sunroof top, diggin’ in the scene with a gangster lean” -- in Sean’s’ big body Cadillac, complete with plush maroon leather seats [...]

A Black and White State of Mind

All I have to say is that I’m utterly in love with my vintage Canon AE-1P camera.  Shooting with black-and-white film is truly unsurpassed [...]

Motherhood in the wild

Here are some shots of a Hummingbird mother-to-be.  Ironically, these shots were taken at a Mother’s Day BBQ in Marin.  Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pics of the other mothers (or those soon-to-be) in attendance.

Ode to San Francisco

I’ve been living in San Francisco now nearly half my life and find The City to be just as beautiful, amazing and inspiring to me now as it was when I came for my first visit at the age of 14 [...]

Top of the world

Well, I’m slowly starting to make my way through some of the backlog of unprocessed photos I’ve been sitting on [...]

Don't Miss: 'Intricacies of Phantom Content'

San Francisco artist Hilary Pecis' exhibition, opening Friday night at Triple Base Gallery, consists of a series of kaleidoscope-like, postapocalyptic-themed collages that she created using magazine cutouts, paint and ink on panel [...]

New Works by Ian M. Johnson

San Francisco-based artist Ian Johnson’s solo show opened this past Saturday at White Walls Gallery in the city’s ever vibrant Tenderloin District [...]

Photo Medley

This medley of photos comes from a recent outing to the Musee Mechanique museum in the Fisherman’s Wharf, which is home to one of the world’s largest privately owned collections of mechanically operated musical instruments and antique arcade machines [...]

Firing Shots From The Sky

My office in San Francisco is located on the 6th Floor of Two Embarcadero Center, overlooking legendary skate spot “Hubba Hideout" [...]

S.F. Chronicle Feature: "Skate This Art"

If you're into skateboard art, a.k.a. "skart," then check out the "Skate This Art" group show that opened on Monday at Market Street Gallery in San Francisco [...]

Two Extremes

Last week Friday, after having dinner and a handful of drinks with family and friends near Union Square, I decided to go on a late night solo shooting mission through Chinatown and the Financial District [...]

North Beach Outing: Boulevard of Broken Dreams

I snapped these photos last week Friday while out shooting with Plug1 (Whatimseeing.com) and Derek Poon (4Fifteen Clothing).  North  Beach is a much different place during the day [...]

Black and White Adventure

This collection of black and whites comes from an excursion I had last week Tuesday with some friends and soon-to-be brother-in-law [...]

Capricious San Francisco

The weather in San Francisco has been a rollercoaster as of late.  In the past week, we’ve gone from extreme heat -- I’m talking over 90 degrees in The City, which doesn’t happen very often, especially in April -- to blustery, foggy high 50s and low 60s [...]

"Downtown -- things will be great when your downtown"

Last Saturday, I met up with friends Sean Renos and Julien “Hoops” Kidd for a downtown skate mish.  I’ve known the two for over 15 years each.  We took to the city streets like it was ‘97 all over again, straight renegade style [...]

I Hella Heart SF

This collection of photos comes from a lunchtime shooting outing in Chinatown with the cast from Whatimseeing.com and 4Fifteen Clothing [...]

Big Sur: towering cliffs, lush meadows and roaring surf

My wife and I spent the holiday weekend in Big Sur, a small coastal town located along California’s Central Coast, about 15 miles south of Monterey [...]

Sunday Skate Outing: Over the Top

Here are the pics I promised from last Sunday’s skate outing.  I snapped ‘em a couple hours after I mangled myself bombing a hill by my house [...]

Mangled

First things first, I slammed ridiculously hard on Sunday while bombing Terresita Street on the stuntwood from Stillings Street down to Monterey Blvd [...]

Sunday Skate Session Photos

A bunch of us met up last Sunday at Wallenburg School, a.k.a “The Usual,” a.k.a. “Wallenturd,” a.k.a. “The Turd,” for a session.  The weather was near perfect [...]