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San Francisco from Berkeley, California
30-image stack, median.
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Taken from Treasure island over looking at the Bay Bridge and Down San Francisco underneath the bridge.
Market Street is an important thoroughfare in San Francisco, California. It begins at The Embarcadero in front of the Ferry Building at the northeastern edge of the city and runs southwest through downtown, passing the Civic Center and the Castro District, to the intersection with Corbett Avenue in the Twin Peaks neighborhood. Beyond this point, the roadway continues as Portola Drive into the southwestern quadrant of San Francisco. Portola Drive extends south to the intersection of St. Francis Boulevard and Sloat Boulevard, where it continues as Junipero Serra Boulevard.
Market Street is the boundary of two street grids. Streets on its southeast side are parallel or perpendicular to Market Street, while those on the northwest are nine degrees off from the cardinal directions.
Market Street is a major transit artery for the city of San Francisco, and has carried in turn horse-drawn streetcars, cable cars, electric streetcars, electric trolleybuses, and diesel buses. Today Muni's buses, trolleybuses, and heritage streetcars (on the F Market line) share the street, while below the street the two-level Market Street Subway carries Muni Metro and BART. While cable cars no longer operate on Market Street, the surviving cable car lines terminate to the side of the street at its intersections with California Street and Powell Street.
Construction
Market Street cuts across the city for three miles (5 km) from the waterfront to the hills of Twin Peaks. It was laid out originally by Jasper O'Farrell, a 26-year old trained civil engineer who emigrated to Yerba Buena, as the town was then known. The town was renamed San Francisco in 1847 after it was captured by Americans during the Mexican-American War. O'Farrell first repaired the original layout of the settlement around Portsmouth Square and then established Market Street as the widest street in town, 120 feet between property lines. (Van Ness now beats it with 125 feet.) It was described at the time as an arrow aimed straight at "Los Pechos de la Chola" (the Breasts of the Maiden), now called Twin Peaks. Writing in Forgotten Pioneers.
As I was heading to Berkeley to take bird photos this morning, I noticed the fog blanketing the city at a low level. I found a spot to pull over and used my 600mm lens to take 5 vertical photos and stitched them together in photoshop to create this panorama.
San Francisco
Another photo for my Red Brick Road Portfolio.
Also join me to photograph on the "red brick road" and other areas during my San Francisco workshops this June.
Another image from a slightly different perspective of the iconic Golden Gate Bridge as my lovely west coast damsel and I went past the defense batteries and started the downward decent toward Marshall Beach just west of the bridge. Such a contrast as we realized that we had been parked by same location late last summer in the general vicinity of where we were walking but the marine layer was so thick and infusive that literally all that could be seen from that vantage point then was fog. When the Golden Gate Bridge was built, the military originally had wanted the bridge to be painted with black and yellow stripes when they finally agreed to a bridge. There was fear that the bridge would be knocked into the water effectively trapping the fleet stationed at the Presidio from leaving San Francisco Bay. So why is the bridge the reddish orange hue that is now considered iconic? Well when we stopped at the National Parks Station in February to get my NPS Passport Book stamped while my west coast damsel circled as we didn’t find a place to park, I read the story while awaiting my turn. When the steel for bridge arrived at San Francisco, it was painted with an anticorrosive primer that was burnt red and orange. Architect Irving Morrow was struck by the color and preferred it to the greys and blacks of most conventional spans. The ‘international’ orange provided enough contrast to be visible in the fog which as I experienced firsthand literally gets drawn in by the inland heat according to Morrow. Aesthetically speaking it complimented the natural topography of the surrounding hills, the blue waters of the bay and the blues. So, the temporary primer color became the permanent color formulation that Sherwin-Williams created for the span that today is very much its signature.