Art Deco.

The Presidio theater, sporting a splendid Art Deco design, remains in business in San Francisco’s Marina District.

Click the first image for the map.

Snapped on the D700 with the 16-35G lens.

Greek revival on a grand scale.

The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco’s Marina District is a Greek revival structure built in 1915 for the Pan-Pacific Exhibition. There’s an interesting history at Wikipedia where the original structure can be seen in a contemporary monochrome panoramic shot.

It’s rather incongruous, way too large for the site and sort of in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by high priced residential buildings which rather crowd it out. But it’s a fun trip to visit this monumental piece, with its rotunda and beautiful lagoon.

Snapped on the D700 using the 16-35G and 35-70 AFD lenses.

A 2013 project.

For whatever reason, I have taken few snaps of the Golden Gate Bridge, and it’s time to get serious, so one New Year’s resolution is to see if anything new can be said about this great architectural masterpiece.

By way of a start, here are a few snapped in 2012.

Stranger and stranger.

It’s fun to publish a few snaps of just how strange our world is. It seems to get more so to my eyes daily, and that makes taking pictures all the more fun. I cannot recall a time when I more enjoyed this sort of thing.

All snapped in the space of 60 minutes on a crisp, clear day in San Francisco last week. D700, 28/2 Nikkor. In all candor, except for the third, these might as well have been snapped using a throwaway camera, which suggests I have not come very far after all these years!

P.S.

I’m 61 today. Snap by my boy.

Trust me, it’s an original.

At Fishermen’s Wharf, SF.

It’s fitting that the great fake DalI should see his mostly faked works in tourist traps preying on the unsuspecting. At last count his global output must exceed some 5 million pieces. One productive chap, our Salvador.

Snapped on the D700 with the 28mm f/2 pre-Ai Nikkor at Fisherman’s Wharf, SF.