Sunday afternoon

Bay sunrise

I posted a photo I took from almost the same spot a few months ago, but I think the colours here are amazing. Fuji Velvia is the film alright.

Bay Bridge

An early morning view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. I'd been hoping for clear weather, but the clouds didn't turn out too badly either. I particularly like the lights of the port of Oakland in the far distance.

What I think of when I think of San Francisco

I'd need the Golden Gate bridge and a cable car in there for it to be true, but it makes a good title. They've got real hills over there.

Market Street

Market Street seen from Twin Peaks, from a recent trip to San Francisco. It was a long walk to the top but worth it in the end!

Dog

The hotel we were staying in while in San Francisco had a dog, but I guess it wasn't a guard dog.

At rest

By the Bay

When you go sightseeing in San Francisco, of course you have to go to Fisherman's Wharf.

Harbour

Wheels

A wheel from a paddle steamer?

San Francisco Bay fog

This isn't Fisherman's Wharf, but when we came back from Muir Woods on the ferry from sunny Sausalito, we ran into the wall of fog that had been covering San Francisco during our stay there. This is an attempt to capture that feeling!

Cable cars

New York doesn't have cable cars, but San Francisco does! It turned out to be harder than I expected to take photos from a moving cable car: for one thing, using a telephoto lens one-handed is pretty awkward. Shutter priority at 1/200s and ISO 200 gave an aperture of f/13, which still turned out to be not quite enough sometimes.

All downhill from here

This is the best of all the cable car shots that I took, since it's just starting its descent it stands out nicely against the sky. My focus was slightly off though, the road turned out sharper than the car.

Bay windows

These windows caught my eye on the way up, getting rid of the surrounding jumble ended up with a squarish crop. Not a great photo but there's something about it I like.

Muir Woods

While in San Francisco we took a day trip out to Muir Woods to see the redwoods. Usually I photograph city scenes so this was quite a departure! For the first hour or two it was cloudy but eventually the sun came out, though it didn't make that much difference in taking photos down on the forest floor, where it was much darker than I was expecting.

To the sky

Small leaves and large trees

Giants

Blue and green

Forest stream

I had great hopes for this photo since the mixture of sunlight and shadow on the bed of the stream turned out very nicely, but it ended up coming out unfocused. The shadows are not bad, though. 

Crow

It wasn't really clear what this crow was doing at the entrance, other than waiting to be photographed, but it attracted a lot of attention.

San Francisco art

Public art near the San Francisco Bay Bridge.

Municipal art

San Francisco

Last week I was in San Francisco on a business trip, but I took photos whenever I had a free moment.

Perspective

I was in a hurry so I couldn't spend as long taking this shot as I wanted, after I looked at it laster I knew it would have come out better with more feet in the picture.

Chinatown 

Federal Reserve

About two weeks ago I had an epiphany reading a photography book when I realised that wide angles are about converging lines (among other things, of course). That's hardly an original thought, but expect to see more converging lines here in the future!

Two piers