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# The Gift of Learning. And Santa Con.
- URL: https://www.maxsidman.com/one-for-the-road-44-on-to-the-next-december-2024/
- Published: 2024-12-29T20:41:51.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-29T04:20:58.000Z
- Description: The first time I joined a half-day workshop at Leica SF, Santa Con also happened to be going on down the street. What luck.
- Author: Max Sidman
- Tags: Photography, Streets

I joined a workshop at the Leica SF store earlier this month, where about 20 people worked together on practicing depth of field using open apertures. Luckily (?) for us, SF's annual Santa Con event was happening in Union Square just a few blocks away from the shop, and after some initial workshopping, we spend a couple of hours at the event putting what we'd learned to use.

This gallery contains 16 black & white film photographs I made that rainy Saturday afternoon in San Francisco.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours. Do something good for yourself this holiday season. 

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-01 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-01-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-02 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-02-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-03 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-03-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-04 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-04-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-05.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-05.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-06.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-06.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-07 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-07-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-08 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-08-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-13 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-13-copy-1.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-09 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-09-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-10 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-10-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-11 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-11-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-12 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-12-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-14 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-14-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-15 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-15-copy.jpg)

![122024-SF-MP-50mm-TriX400-16 copy.jpg](https://storage.ghost.io/c/92/39/92391a3d-462d-47a6-b22a-3bcd39fe6d13/content/images/2025/06/122024-sf-mp-50mm-trix400-16-copy.jpg)