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Not a book, and a bit self promotional, but I have a small photo series I worked on https://mkaz.com/silicon-valley/

Also, look for Silicon Valley '07 by Gabriele Basilico, it's a photo book - not a huge coffee table book but pretty good with about 80-100 photos from 2007

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I really love this. It makes me feel weirdly nostalgic, even though I've never been to California, or indeed the US. As a tech-obsessed teenager in the 90s, some of the older companies here felt almost mythical at the time. Plus lots of California generally would show up in so much pop culture, films, music videos and so on, and the sort of vintage-y vibe I'm getting here feels really reminiscent of that.

Nice work. That Sun Microsystems one should be the same as the Facebook one, but the back of that sign ;) (as I see you've included in the FB writeup. Good show)

I like your photos, but you should use small thumbnail images, instead of having the browser scale the full size images to thumbnail size.

Probably, looks like I'm going to hit my bandwidth limits on Vercel hobby tier. ;-)

I love your exterior building shots. Is that film, filters, or post processing (if you don’t mind)?

Thanks! The majority of them are digital, most with a Fujifilm camera either X-T1 or X-PRO2 depending on when they were taken. I do shoot a fair amount of film, so a couple will be Kodak Portra. I prefer the film aesthetic so my digital presets aim for that look.

I got a X-T1 about 6 months ago from eBay for around 250€. It does a wonderful job of films simulation. Still very surprised that a 10year old camera can take such wonderful pictures.

Very nice.. There's a lot of history in some of those buildings

Love it, thanks for sharing.

I love this! Amazing work!

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