Lee Sagi Photography

I photograph what I run into. Backcountry tracks and desert camps, the streets near home, people I know, and more. No rime or reason, just photos I like. Based in the East Bay, California. Shoots on a Nikon D7500. Mostly black and white, street.

Collections, each with every photo and its caption:

The Streets

• Right of Way - Homeless person with a loaded cart and a long crosswalk on San Mateo Drive.
• One Match - A cigarette, a can and a sliver of sun in Oakland Chinatown.
• Invisible Inventory - Everything packed and within reach on a strip of sidewalk.
• Stop - A crossing guard holding the street with one arm.
• Corner Watch - Waiting at a corner in Oakland Chinatown.
• Peekaboo - A face at the edge of a rolled-down shutter in San Leandro.
• Lady In Red - A human color palette
• All Clear - A kick ass crossing guard in mid-wave.
• Facts Of Life - Resting their weight on a walker, halfway down the block.
• The Ghost of San Mateo - A pedestrian dissolving into the crosswalk on San Mateo Drive.
• Crossing - One wheelchair, one wide empty intersection.

Faces

• Unguarded - A laugh caught before she could stop it.
• Homecoming - Backlit, a few minutes before the dance.
• Coolest Girl - A quiet moment at dinner.
• Somewhere Else - Chin on her hands, eyes on something outside.
• Off Camera - Arms crossed, eyes on something out of frame.
• No Comment - Digging for gold
• Afternoon Coffee - Settled in.

Birds

• Watcher - A raven in close-up, Pacifica.
• Roll Call - Crows spaced down a fence line in the Pacifica fog...Hitchcock is smiling in his grave.
• Paid in Peanuts - A raven collecting its fee, Pacifica.
• Two of a Kind - Two ravens sharing one fence post, Pacifica.
• Lone Star - saw this eagle surveying his territory while walking the dog

Land & Sky

• Lines in the Fog - Surf fishermen and their rods along the Pacifica shore.
• Brushstrokes - Wind-torn clouds over a dark ridge from my backyard.
• Two Casts - Two anglers working the surf in the Pacifica fog.
• Weather Coming - Clouds stacking up over the hills from my backyard.
• Blue Silhouettes - Pilings and trees against a hard blue sky, San Leandro Marina.
• Lone Tree - A single tree under a long streak of cloud, San Leandro shoreline.
• What's Left - A split stump facing the bay, San Leandro.
• Framed - The marina through the branches, San Leandro.
• Reflections - Marina posts doubled in flat water, San Leandro.
• Last Light - Sunset through the brush from my backyard.

Selected Work

• Armor - Thorns up close in Gregory's garden.
• Ghost - Backlit on the dog bed.
• Indoor Star - a lamp above our table in a restaurant
• Floor Level - Ghost, unimpressed.
• Those Eyes - Ghost in window light.
• Shotgun - Ghost watching from the back seat.
• Behind Glass - A driver behind a window full of trees.
• Stopped - A driver checking her phone.
• Live-in burglar - A shadow by the window, right at home in the dark.
• After Hours - An empty storefront arcade at night, Castro Valley, CA.
• Still Life - A pistol, Kimber, three rounds and a jeweled skull on gray cloth.