San Francisco at its best.

For the best part of the decade ending in 2016 I lived in Burlingame, just south of San Francisco. Once a week I would take the CalTrain to the city, methodically covering every district with two goals: capturing the wonderful architecture of this most picturesque of cities and taking candid snaps of the people who call the city home.

This journal entry addresses the latter and, when looking at the data in my Lightroom catalog, I find that two locations have the largest number of images – the Embarcadero and the Mission District.

The Embarcadero is the eastern most thoroughfare of the city, running past the sports stadium, the Oakland Bay Bridge (now shamefully repaired using Chinese steel) and the Ferry Building, landmarks all. Unsurprisingly these feature heavily in my images.

You can read more about this magnificent thoroughfare here.

Equipment data are included in the slideshow. Where lens information is missing for the Panasonic G1 it was the 14-45mm kit zoom. Where the lens is shown as ‘0mm’ that means I was using the magnificent 500mm Mirror Nikkor before I had added a CPU to record EXIF data. Cameras used include the Panasonic G1 MFT, the Nikon D2x APS-C and the Nikon D700 and D3x full frame bodies.

You can view my favorite three dozen images by clicking the picture below:

Click the image for the slideshow.