Seen in Little Italy, SF.

G1, kit lens @ 16mm, 1/4000,, f/4.5m ISO320.

OWS comes to SF.

Remarkable peace prevails at the OWS encampment on the Embarcadero at the Ferry Building in San Francisco.

G3, kit lens @14mm, 1/100. f/9, ISO 320.

Three or four police cars were in evidence but their drivers were too occupied with the donuts and coffee on this chilly morning to bother harassing the peaceful protesters.

G3, kit lens @18mm, 1/50, f/9, ISO320

A hint of the eastern Mediterranean.

G3, kit lens @30mm, 1/500, f/4.5, ISO 320

Insane dynamic range here. One of those cases where a larger sensor would have better withstood the need for selective processing of the shadows. Exposure was for the highlights – once those burn there’s no way of bringing them back.

At Commercial and Leidesdorff Streets in SF’s financial district.

Yer basic Irish boozer.

G3, kit lens @19mm, 1/50, f/4,3. ISO320.

On Sacramento Street, San Francisco.