San Francisco - a sense of time, a sense of place
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Our last morning in San Francisco, I went out early to photograph the sunrise from Telegraph Hill. I arrived there when it was still dark, and was able to enjoy the morning's show! This included a light trail from a plane taking off from San Francisco International Airport.
A view of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge. I used to drive across this bridge daily. Fortunately, on October 17, 1989, I was working in the East Bay, and actually came home from work early (to watch the baseball World Series between teams from Oakland and San Francisco). Shortly after 5 pm, a large earthquake struck, causing considerable damage, injury and loss of life. It was the strongest earthquake I ever experienced. A portion of the eastern section of the Bay Bridge collapsed that day, along with a double decker freeway (known as the Cypress Structure) in Oakland (which I also regularly used). Just goes to show you how quickly life can change. Photos of the damage to the bridge and freeway can be seen in the article on Wikipedia. The collapse of the Cypress Structure accounted for more deaths than any other incident during the earthquake. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Loma_Prieta_earthquake.
San Francisco, "The City by the Bay" covers only 47 square miles (121.4 km ) and has a population of less than 900 thousand, but it ranks as one of the greatest cities in the world. A popular tourist destination, it is known for its cool foggy summers, steep rolling hills, eclectic architecture and landmarks, including the Golden Gate Bridge, cable cars, the former Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Fisherman's Wharf, and its Chinatown district.
It was founded in 1776 by colonists from Spain who were sent to establish religious missions in the New World. In 1821 after the Mexican War of Independence against Spain, it became a territory of Mexico until 1846 when it was ceded to the United States. The California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. In 1906 most of the city was destroyed by an earthquake and fire, but it was quickly rebuilt. It was a major port of embarkation for service members during WWII.
Muni F Market & Wharves Streetcar No. 1079 honoring the Detroit Department of Street Railways (DSR)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j9TKAsgTyM
SF heritage streetcar service
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Market_%26_Wharves
July 2019 - Edited and uploaded 2022/01/14
San Francisco from Berkeley, California
30-image stack, median.
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San Francisco has maintained its reputation as a center of cultural bohemianism. In earlier years it had drawn writers from Mark Twain to Jack London, and it became a center for the 1950s beat poets and for the Haight-Ashbury hippie counterculture that peaked with the 1967 “Summer of Love.”
What a joy it was to spend time in San Francisco, highly recommend to anyone.
The San Francisco Bay Area, ringing the San Francisco Bay in northern California, is a geographically diverse and extensive metropolitan region that is home to nearly 8 million inhabitants in cities such as San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley and San Jose. Once a focus of Spanish missions and Gold Rush prospectors, the Bay Area is best known now for its alternative lifestyles, liberal politics and the high-tech industry of Silicon Valley.
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North Beach neighborhood - Sentinel Building with Cafe Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola bought the building & opened the cafe, which is named after his film studio). Pyramid Building towering in the distance. This area was once known as "Sydney Town" but eventually became better known by the term "Barbary Coast".
Francisco Pizarro fue un conquistador español que, a principios del siglo XVI, lideró la expedición que inició la Conquista del Perú.
The San Francisco Bay surf laps at rocks on the beach at Crissy Field as the Golden Gate Bridge rises in the distance.
Hope everyone is ready for Thanksgiving. Baking desserts today and I have my daughter with me ... finally!
Happy "Day Before Thanksgiving!"
Dumbarton Bridge is the closer, San Mateo Bridge lies beyond it. That hill behind San Mateo Bridge is San Bruno, and San Francisco lies just to the right of it in this image, although there's not enough detail in this shot to really see much. Maybe a hint of the Twin Peaks radio mast, if you squint and hope.
Canon SL1 / 40mm STM
City Hall in San Francisco all done up for Christmas, a wonderful weekend fraught with some challenges for my sweet and lovely west coast damsel, but we just went with it and made the best of it. The city by the bay is certainly festive in its Christmas celebrations. City Hall opened in 1915 so it is over a century old.
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A view of fog rolling in over San Francisco just before sunset. In the foreground, some buildings in Emeryville are just visible. Behind them, the bay bridge snakes its way into the city. It was only a matter of time before the fog made its way across the bay and engulfed my vantage point.
Here is a shot I have been chasing for quite some time. A bit of planning goes into this, getting out of bed at 4am and immediately checking weather conditions from the Salesforce cameras. OK, we have low fog. Then there is my motivation, do I want to run into the city at this early hour and launch from the Embarcadero keeping in mind drone regulations. I was hoping I would get this shot before I move out of the bay area in a few weeks and I finally got it. Check this one off the list.
As I was heading to Berkeley to take bird photos this morning, I noticed the fog blanketing the city at a low level. I found a spot to pull over and used my 600mm lens to take 5 vertical photos and stitched them together in photoshop to create this panorama.
Le Pier 39 est célèbre pour ses lions de mer qui viennent y dormir . Litiges incessants, les spectateurs sont ignorés ...au premier plan, nouvel arrivant mouillé
A cloudy early morning at the Golden Gate Bridge. Our visit to San Francisco was all too short, and the morning I walked out to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge was cloudy - which is very common. I would have loved some golden light shining on the bridge from over my shoulder, but that was not meant to be on this day.
San Francisco
Another photo for my Red Brick Road Portfolio.
Also join me to photograph on the "red brick road" and other areas during my San Francisco workshops this June.