After looking at about a thousand pictures from previous Love Fests, I almost didn’t go. The pictures are so lame that they only occasionally hint at a good time. Then I decided that it was my duty to attend and get a few decent shots of what probably is a pretty good event. So, armed with a single 80-400 mm lens and my faithful D2X, I headed out to the city. It turns out that Love Fest IS a pretty cool event in the coolest city in the country. And I did fall in love at the Love Fest once or twice – OK, maybe three times.

You could easily get the idea from my pictures that only gorgeous women attend the Love Fest, but that’s not entirely true. In fact, there were way more totally naked dudes (at least 6) than women (0), and some naked women that may have been guys – or something – but I’ll spare you the gruesome details. I don’t want anyone to get the wrong idea or swear off thedude.com forever.

What you don’t see in my shots are the thousands of people bumping and grinding to bone-rattling drum and bass from a dozen sound stages set up smack in the middle of San Francisco’s Civic Center plaza. God, I love this place!