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.

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.

For images of Embarcadero architecture click here.