★ CaliberSF is dead…AllCitySF is born.

Photo: Troy Holden

The coveted placement of an RSS feed in my feed reader is rarely given up for any blog. A year ago, I added CaliberSF.com to my feed reader. The power team of Troy Holden and Julie Michelle along with guest photographers kept me excited for a new photo each and every day. Caliber was a photo blog and a damn good one. It won an SF Weekly award last year for best art blog and the team deserved it! They brought on Travis Jenson and a few other guys and the quality grew and grew. There was a photographer I recommended they add time and time again and finally, “bats” was added to the roster. Travis Jenson was kind enough to give me some powerful advice when I purchased a Canon AE-1 last month as his photos using the 40 year old photos on Caliber were astoundingly perfect.

Today, CaliberSF has a post by user “Admin” (whoever that is) saying that the blog is no more:

As of March 23, 2011, the authors of Caliber will cease posting to this site. Please help us celebrate by focusing your attention on our new project, All City! If you’ve been following Caliber for some time, you won’t notice anything too radically different about the format, just a snazzier site and a sharper focus of purpose. Please take a moment to update your RSS reader to the new feed. We have a lot of really cool content in the pipeline and some neat ideas that for new ways we can contribute to the San Francisco photography community.

What a wonderful time we’ve had posting to this site. Caliber began in October 2009 and since then has seen thousands of images posted and so many wonderful comments and conversations associated to each image. While there are no longer going to be new images posted to the site, the old archive will exist (in some form) for quite some time.

I assumed Troy Holden was joining the new blog project so I peaked at their about page and saw 4 guys but an absence of Troy. Troy is my favorite SF photographer right now. His photos are EVERYWHERE and it doesn’t help that he’s one of the leads over at Twitter’s support team. Both Julie’s and Troy’s blogs are linked to on the “Friends of All City SF” page so it’s difficult to determine if Troy decided to go out on his own or if something else happened among the photobloggers contributing to CaliberSF.

On a final note, http://troyholden.com/ has a status page as, “Your website is ready” as a blank page that Troy must have just setup so I anticipate that page soon becoming a TroyHolden.com filled with just his photos on a daily basis. One can hope that’s the case. Troy does have a Flickr page but I’m going to miss the curated daily photo selection from him

To the All City SF crew, I’m adding you to my RSS feed and removing Caliber’s. The photographers there are top-notch but the majority of Caliber’s original core group has moved on and that makes me mighty sad.