Fun!

A nice way to enjoy a lunch break in North Beach:

G1, 45mm, f/5.6. 1/1000, ISO 125

A slice of San Francisco.

Spotted in San Francisco the other day. I just love this sort of thing. Takes me back to childhood days.

Red alleyway. G1, kit lens, f/5, 1/500, ISO100

It amazes me that people still hang their washing out to dry – just like when I was a poor kid in London. My job was to push those wooden clothespins onto the laundry and line!

A quick roundtrip to PS CS2 took care of the leaning verticals.

Rules were mean to be broken.

Spotted on walkabout in San Francisco the other day.

G1, kit lens at 16mm

Sort of like a red rag to a bull. OK, pink in this case.

And our hand is in your pocket.

A pithy little bit of editorial from one of San Francisco’s citizens who isn’t buying it.

G1, kit lens at 31mm

A fine work.

Another example of the fine architecture to be found in the central California Old Town section of Salinas, an area much pictured by Depression Era photographers like Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange. Opened in November, 1921, it was designed by A. W. Cornelius and is mercifully undergoing a complete renovation, no wrecking ball in sight.

G1, 40mm, 1/200, f/8, ISO100

Processed in LR2 with perspective correction in PS CS2.