Afternoon sun.
Pollard Place, just north of Broadway, San Francisco.
Nikon D3x, 35/1.4 Sigma.
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Paz
Incarcerated.
At 24th and Lilac, San Francisco.
Nikon D3x, 35mm f/2 pre-Ai Nikkor.
Filbert Street
SF’s steepest.
Wikipedia has Filbert Street as one of San Francisco’s steepest and the massive coronary which threatens as you make your way to the top makes it hard to argue.
There’s even a school at the east end, near Coit Tower and what better way to illustrate just how steep it is?
Wikipedia says the steepest section is 17.5 degrees. I borrowed my son’s protractor and checked the bus out. It came to 16 degrees. Close.
The stretch referred to in the Wikipedia piece is here:
Looking east.
Looking west.
You drive down that section in second gear with your foot on the brake …. this section is one way, downhill only.
In the second image you can see Coit Tower at the left (close to the location of the first picture), St. Peter and Paul Church at center-left on Washington Square in the heart of North Beach (Little Italy) and the Oakland Bay Bridge on the horizon. Quite a view. Too bad we don’t bury those power cables.
Nikon D3x, 35mm f/1.4 Sigma (the first) and 50mm f/1.4 pre-Ai Nikkor (the others).
Funky window
Strange marketing.
Second and Howard, San Francisco. This is a firm describing itself as an architectural business but you have to wonder whether you would want to retain them.
Nikon D3x, 28mm f/2 pre-Ai Nikkor.
Dungeness crabs
At Fisherman’s Wharf, SF.
Live and awaiting purchase.
These were absent from stores over Christmas owing to a fishermen’s strike, but now are to be found aplenty. They run $10/lb. cooked in the shell or $32/lb. for the meat only, suggesting a yield of only about 30%. The shells are thick, heavy and very beautiful. Dip in some molten butter, add a nice Chardonnay and you have an excellent light dinner.
Though Fisherman’s Wharf has the most awful – and richly deserved – reputation as a tourist trap, replete with T shirt vendors and the like, there is some excellent seafood to be had there, fresh from the Bay.
The cook at Alioto’s, above, is boiling fresh lobster and crab on the sidewalk, for all to see.
Down the road Capurro’s provides a traditional oak interior where you can enjoy the catch of the day, chalked up on the board for all to see.
The bar, with a couple of local brews on tap, is in context:
And there’s no arguing with this simple message:
All on the Nikon D3x, 16-35 AF-S G at f/4 except the last on the pre-Ai 135mm f/3.5 on the D700.