I miss traveling. I’m keeping myself sane through photos from past trips. Here is one from my last SF trip. I had a great time exploring the Golden Gate Bridge Park.
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SF Fog
I hope you have a great weekend. We don’t plan to do much, which is going to be a good thing.
Tonight’s photo is from my last trip to San Francisco. I know they get fog all the time, but I felt lucky to experience it while I was there. As you can see, it was just starting to roll into the bay from the Pacific Ocean.
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Trolley
This is from my last trip to San Francisco. Better times. All the times I’ve been to San Fran, I’ve never ridden on the Trolley, but I have visited Alcatraz Prison (seen in the background).
Old and New
I like this city photo a bunch and I’m not really sure why. Its probably just the contrast between the old building and the new skyscraper in the background. I took this last fall while I was in San Francisco. I spent probably 8 hours over three days just walking around the city capturing random photos here and there. It will be interesting to see if you like it as much as I do. There are photos I expect to get lots of love that do and others that surprise me and don’t. But I don’t know what to expect with this one. So let’s find out.
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Lighted Flower
I processed this photo last night. I forgot I even took this photo from my San Francisco trip. So, when I found the raw images on my hard drive, I went right to work editing this photo. I liked how it turned out.
This is from a courtyard between a complex of buildings in the Financial District. This lighted flower structure is the decorative top of an elevator within the courtyard.
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Transamerica Pyramid
What to post? That’s the question that plagues me just about every time I post a photo. I don’t like to post too many photos from the same area or subject matter in a row to keep you interested. But when you have thousands of photos, selecting one can be tough.
Some nights it is easy to select one, other nights I scroll for a long time. Tonight, I selected this photo from San Fran. Why? I really don’t know. I guess its just time for this photo to be released.
By the way, some of these drivers didn’t like me standing in the street to capture this pic. I can’t imagine why!!!
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Lombard Street
I’ve loved my past trips to San Francisco. What a great city! The last time I was there, I went to Lombard Street on two difference occasions. This specific time, it was late at night. I was basically the only person there. The other time was during daylight and it was packed with cars and tourist. I liked having it to myself the best.
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Another Golden Gate Bridge Photo
If you were making a list of the most photographed sites in the world, I’d bet this bridge would be in the top ten list. I’ve posted a number of photos of this bridge in the past, including one less then a month ago.
I took this photo in early June from a hiking path near the Golden Gate Welcome Center on a very cold day for that time of the year.
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Lombard Street
Like all tourist who visit San Francisco, I went to see Lombard Street. I have to admit, it was fairly cool. I visited it twice during my last SF visit. I was there the first time during the daylight (bright light). So I went back the next night to photograph it during and after sunset…. That’s when I captured this beauty looking up hill.
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Calzone's
On my first night in San Francisco, I ate dinner outside at this restaurant. It was such a cool experience just watching the people and traffic pass by my seat. And the food was great as well. I liked this spot so much, that a couple of days later I went back to photograph the building after sunset.
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Palace Of Fine Arts Reflection
This unique complex is fairly close to the Golden Gate Bridge. I’ve posted a picture from this location in the past and explained the history in the prior post. So tonight, I’ll keep this short and just say I like the reflection and the blue in this photo.
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Rotunda
It’s been a few years since I was in San Francisco. But I’m still not done processing photos from that trip. Sad, but true. When you take as many photos as I do, it is easy to fall behind and I jump around a bunch when I am processing photos. I never just process one trip all at once. Anyway, today I had a chance to work on some processing and I decided to work on the SF trip. As I was working on them, I finished this photo. I honestly don’t even remember taking it, but I loved it.
This is looking straight up at the Palace of Fine Arts Theater rotunda ceiling. I’ve never seen this perspective photographed before, but I’m sure its been done a 1,000 times before. I hope you like it.
Notes:
· Great game today between the University of Michigan and Michigan State University football teams.
· I’ll be photographing the Steelers vs. Cardinals NFL game tomorrow. Look for me on the sideline. I’ll be the guy getting run over by 300-pound lineman.
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Mike Davis
I know he isn’t a household name and you’ve probably never heard of him before. He played college football at the University of South Carolina and is a rookie for the San Francisco 49ers. Regardless, I liked this action photo.
Scroll down to see a close up version of this, which I also like.
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Close up of the prior image.... I like this version as well.
Colin Kaepernick
I had a great time photographing the Steelers vs. 49ers game yesterday. We had great weather and I enjoyed seeing the 49ers in person. I can’t claim I had a great photography day. I didn’t really get any photos that I thought were great. It seemed like all the great plays happened where I wasn’t or the harsh sun ruined some photos. I don’t know. I just wasn’t happy with 99.9% of the photos I took at the game. Weird how that happens some times.
Anyway, today’s post is of #7 Colin Kaepernick, the 6’ 4”, 230 lbs quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers. A very talented and sometimes troubled player during his time with SF. Regardless, I was happy for the chance to see him play in person. Some of my favorite photos from the games are the sideline shots. I took this shot in the 2nd half right after he threw a touchdown pass.
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Me towards the beginning of the game, taken with my iPhone
Grace Cathedral
I hope everyone had a great week. My week (really the last four weeks) was extremely busy. Anyway, I don’t want to bore you with work…… Here is a picture I took of the inside of Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. MJ and I explored the city from one end to the other. As normal, I had a long shot list (a list of destinations I wanted to photograph) that took us all over the place. And as usual, I have the best wife in the world. She followed me around, waited while I photographed every location from every angle and tried to hide her boredom. What more could I ask for?
Anyway, one of the locations on my list was this wonderful church. This is an Episcopal cathedral in the Nob Hill area of SF. This was built in 1906 after the original Grace Cathedral was destroyed by fire following the 1906 earthquake.
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Palace Of Fine Arts 2
Okay.... so I posted a version of this yesterday. I liked the photo, but I wasn't in love with it. So I went to work on it after posting it to see if I could pull some magic out of it. I don't know if I achieved "magical status", but I like this version better. What do you think?
Palace of Fine Arts
Maybe it’s because it has been a long week. Or maybe I just can’t think of anything to say. But as I sit here looking at the computer screen, I can’t think of anything to type for this photo…..
Anyway, I took this 7-exposure auto-bracketed HDR photo at the Palace Of Fine Arts in San Francisco last year at about this time. I had four great days in SF with MJ. We explored a ton of areas while we were there including Muir Woods National Monument (Redwood trees), Golden Gate Bridge, Bay Bridge, the bay, Alcatraz, China town, Financial District, Conference Center, a bunch of churches, etc, etc, etc.…… Basically we packed a lot into our limited time.
The Palace Of Fine Arts is a very cool spot in this wonderful city.
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Redwoods
What to post? What to post? On some nights, I have a very clear idea what I want to share with you. Other days, I struggle just to pick something I think is worthy of sharing with you. Tonight was one of the tough nights. So I scanned through some of my pictures and found this photo from Muir Woods outside San Francisco. The Redwood trees are amazing. You can see my last post of these great trees here: http://brook-ward.com/blog/2013/9/7/muir-woods-national-monument
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Alcatraz Water Tower
I have something different for you today. While we were in San Francisco, I did a
tour of Alcatraz, which was very cool.
But I didn’t get many great photos while I was there. It was very difficult with all the
tourist, fog, etc… While walking
the island, I came across the water tower and loved the scene (I may have been
the only one on the island that even noticed it). There was so much fog in the air, that it blocked the entire
sky and masked the sun. It made it
look like a very overcast day and gave the sky so much character. So all of these elements seemed to come
together just for this picture.
I haven’t done many black and white photos in the past, so I hope you like it.
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Palace of Fine Arts
This cool looking structure was built for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in the marina area of San Francisco. It was one of several structures built for this exhibit and the only one to not be destroyed afterward. Some local citizens formed a group to save it. It has been renovated a few times over the years and has a city park with a pond around it making it a very cool location. It’s popular for weddings and I can see why. As a “temporary” structure only meant for displaying art during the 1915 exposition, it is a timeless classic for the city of San Francisco.
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