A fire escape...

... can be beautiful too. I've been back from San Francisco for a week but I haven't shot much around home. The weather is just soooo crappy. All I see is grey, grey, grey. But I've got a bunch of these California shots left!

San Francisco Architecture

I didn't shoot anything today, but here's some more San Francisco architecture... I've got plenty of that lying around.

Harry's Sign

San Francisco is one of the most annoying cities ever. You can't go a block without getting panhandled at least twice. You get panhandler burnout really fast... but I gave Harry a dollar because the laugh was well worth it.

Self Parking

Powell Street is San Francisco

Gulls In Flight

Last week I posted this kinda freaky shot of a sea gull in flight. As you can see below, I shot a lot more. Why? Well... because I could. As I mentioned in this post, I recently bought this new Nikon 18-200 VR lens. VR stands for "vibration reduction". In addition to the VR technology in the lens, it also has internal focusing which makes it focus very, very quickly. My Nikon D200 camera has a setting that allows you to set the auto-focus to "continuous"... so if you keep the focus-spot trained on a moving object, it will try to keep that object in focus until you shoot. I had never owned a camera/lens combination before capable of such feats as this. The birds were flying all over the place and I could barely keep them in the frame but somehow, the camera was able to keep them in focus an awful lot of the time. What fun! I can't wait to try it out on sports and other fast moving targets.

From Appalachia to Downtown San Francisco

Well, I just can't get away from it. Everywhere I go, there it is, the John Amos Power Plant. Recapping the story thus far... I've posted several photos of the plant here on the blog... I saw this in New York City.... and then I saw this again near Poca, WV. The photo above was taken a couple of days ago in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

SFMOMA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. You can't shoot pictures of the art, but they don't mind if you shoot the architecture. Nice building. Too bad the most interesting parts were closed off the day I was there.

Life amplified...

... at the Yerba Buena Center... or so they say.

Rainy Day in Chinatown

Urban Wildlife

It's like a zoo at Pier 39.

San Francisco, Westfield Center

Just blew into town. Took a nap. Went to Nordstrom to buy a shirt. Still on Eastern Time.

Stay Tuned for San Fran

I'm not posting anything tonight because I'm wildly busy. But stay tuned because I'll be in San Francisco the next few days so I should have some interesting stuff!