It’s cold out there.

Frozen creek

iPhone 12, Apple Pro RAW, processed in SilverEfex2.

Sweet.

You can instantly recognize the two scummiest US professions, for they are the only ones still wearing suits – politicians and lawyers.

So it’s a pleasure to see one of the latter putting the boot into another rather than into one of their many abused clients.

On the Embarcadero, SF.

Panasonic G1, kit zoom.

For large prints from early Panny MFT originals I find there is too much chroma (mottling) noise in the printed image, but the new ‘Enhance’ option in the Develop module of LRc does a nice job of cleaning that up without significantly losing definition. For some reason it only works with RAW files, not with TIFF or JPG, so be sure to apply it to the right file format.

Let them park free!

On the Embarcadero, SF.

Nikon D3x, 35/1.4 Sigma Art.

A touch of the surreal.

You figure it out.

Leica M2, 35mm Asph Summicron, Kodachrome 64.

San Francisco at its best.

You can read more about this magnificent thoroughfare here.

I published three dozen candid snaps of the denizens of the Embarcadero area on San Francisco’s east side here.

This slideshow profiles the fine architecture to be found along this splendid thoroughfare, with three favorite Nikkor lenses – the 180/2.8 AF-D, the 80-200 f/4.5 zoom and the 200/4 pre-Ai – heavily featured. All wonderful, especially the 200/4.

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

Click the image for the slideshow.