About Daniel Sofer

I’ve spent my life at the intersection of art and digital technology: music synthesizers & drum machines, sound recording, laser light shows, print, video, multimedia, web design; and photography.

These days I am mostly working in photography. I shoot photographs mostly of landscapes and architecture. I like to think of my photographs as warm, clean, and sharp; a balance between spirit and technique. I love the time between day and night, light and dark, natural and artificial light. I guess I just love light and the way it reflects off things.

I am now living in both Los Angeles and Kyoto, Japan, and you will see plenty of images from both places on this site.

As former president of the Los Angeles Adobe Lightroom user group LADIG, I am happy to discuss/consult with photographers wanting to know more about this great image editing/management program.

About the Website

This website has been operating continuously since 2002. It has undergone numerous design and engineering changes during that time.

The site is currently built using the Jekyll static website generator. It does not utilize a database, instead it contains thousands of html pages, with no JavaScript and only a few lines of php code. Before 2018, the site used a php/mySQL stack typical of most smaller websites.

The website has always been hosted on my own server, first physical, then virtual; originally running on WindowsNT, then MacOS Server, RedHat/Apache, and now CentOS/Nginx. For many years I rented space in a Los Angeles datacenter. Now my virtual server is hosted by Linode/Akamai in Tokyo, Japan.

Contact Information:

Email: photos@hermosawavephotography.com
Phone: Please try email first, thanks.
I'm mostly on Mastodon these days, but you can view my latest photos on any of the social networks at the bottom of this page.