Bay francisco san
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An exterior wall on Alcatraz Island in dereliction. Hard to believe that something so beautiful would be found in such an ugly place. Such is the beautiful contrast of life. San Francisco, California Circa 2005
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A photo of San Francisco skyline, looking eastward, shot after dusk on a cloudy night. This is a seamlessly stiched panoramic shot with a lot of sharp detail. Most of the famous landmarks are in this shot: Bay Bridge, Transamerica building, BofA Building, Coit Tower etc. Yerba Buena island and East Bay / Oakland is in the background.
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California Street in San Francisco
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Reflection of the Russian Orthodox Virgin Cathedral in San Francisco.
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Foggy morning in San Francisco.
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Watching the sunset and the view of the Bay Bridge and San Francisco
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An outdoor stairway at Ghirardelli Square in San Francisco.
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The Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco just as fog starts to enter the bay area.
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Beautiful things happen when you’re up before dawn. For purchase I recommend the 8×8 or 10×10 versions depending on the the product you choose.
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A seagull atop a piling with background of boats moored at Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco.
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The Golden Gate Bridge.
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On a hill side looking down at the Golden Gate Bridge with San Francisco in the background.
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San Francisco Ferry Building on the Embarcadero.
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San Francisco Bay Bridge.
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Of all the places I expect for a flock of wild parrots to be, San Francisco’s Coit Tower would be one of the last places. After a stunning view of the city, Alcatraz, the bridges, and the bay, I came down from the top and was immediately SCREAMED at from in the trees. I almost [wet] my pants. The sound was familiar but completely out-of-place. It might as well have been Howler Monkeys in Africa, it was so wrong. I looked up for about 5 minutes and saw nothing, moved a foot, and was again greeted with the loudest and most bizarre sound I’ve ever heard in San Francisco. I got the Panasonic TZ4 out to record video and sound but the damned source turned silent again. Almost as if it was watching me and smart enough to know what I was doing. That annoyed me because no ANIMAL is supposed to be able to out-think ME: “Top-Of-The-Food-Chain Lenny”!!!! Turns out that the source was quite visible all the time but I_ couldn’t see it: a very gnarly, old, smartass parrot! Some local guy passing by said, ‘the parrots are always here’, as if it was common knowledge. Hell, maybe it IS common knowledge – for _locals. But nature-loving people like me know that parrots are NOT beach-loving, cold weather enjoying, California West Coast natives! Doing the ‘passive watcher thingie’ (looking in a direction but not focusing on anything and waiting for movement to grab your attention and focus), I saw the distinctive flight and profile. Sure enough, I looked at the right spot and a parrot congratulated me with another lusty scream. A parrot???? A little research and it turns out that an entire flock of them suddenly turned up in this one spot years ago. If anyone knows why, they aren’t tellin’ but it’s the most disorienting thing I witnessed in the bay area. The suckers know who’s a sucker and scream at them without moving, making it all but impossible to find the source for most people and completely impossible for a colourblind guy like me. They are all but invisible to me unless they move. Of course, the camera catches them and the computer can find their profiles. But out there in the freakin’ west coast FOG, these are the last guesses I would have come up with. (Well, maybe pterodactyls would be last but parrots would be a strong second-to-last). The parrots are not friendly, it seems. Once I knew they were there and could spot them, I called to them and they looked and called back but wouldn’t budge from a good ways away. All appear to be the same type/species and some are obviously paired as mating couples. They don’t screech; only the jerks messing with tourists do that. They also don’t ‘spook’. I could have thrown a rock at one and it would have flown off and none but his partner would have followed. But them a few of them take wing together, it’s hella cool! Parrots don’t look like any other bird in flight. (Well, maybe toucans but I haven’t seen a toucan flying except on cereal commercials in the US and those were cartoons). My trip to the top of the Coit Tower was extremely nice. But discovering the flock of parrots and having the Nikon D80 with the 70-300mm lens (shameless disclosure for the Nikon D80 group, but you knew that already, right?) ready made that stop very, very special. :-) Just so I get accepted in the right places… / ___________ / Nikon D80 / Nikkor 70-300mm lens / Focal length: 200mm / F/stop: 5.6 / Exposure time: 1/100 second / Metering mode: pattern / Date/time: 2/27/09 @ 1:12pm / Still right-handed / Still using Corel PaintShop Pro XI for enlarging (but I used it for a lot more on this shot so bite me) / Still using dominant right eye but keeping left eye open is easy now / Grid was displayed in the viewfinder but I didn’t use it on a bird / ISO: 100 / Mode: full manual / Wind: calm / Breakfast: two Mandarin oranges, two AM/PM spicy hotdogs, and a caffeine-free Pepsi / Coke sucks / Caffeine is OK but I can’t sleep if I drink it / Next to Bacardi 151 rum & Pepsi, top shelf Long Island Ice Teas are the best / Spicy fries rock / Typed using a very dirty generic keyboard into an OLD Compaq Presario computer that I customized with dual DVD burners and 2GB of RAM. / Back up device: Buffalo 1TB desktop external hard drive using Firewire / Camera bag: a nice but cheap Targus / Tripod: unused but also a Targus. / Lighting: 2 100watt incandescent bulbs on a self-installed dimmer, utilizing about 60 watts / Hair: precious little
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The Bay Bridge and San Francisco right before sunset.
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San Francisco Bay Bridge at night.
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Canon EOS 5D / Nikkor 35mm f/2 Crossprocessed
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Evening on San Francisco Bay. A sailboat cruises under the Bay Bridge
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Lights shine on the water at Fisherman’s wharf in San Francisco
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Three exposure HDR, blended and processed in Photomatix Pro 3.0 then color treated in Photoshop CS4. This is a view looking at the city from across the bay on Treasure island.
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Russian Ridge, San Francisco Bay Area hiking / Sunset / Fall 2008
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