ON SITE IN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA!!
I am happy to finally present you all with a photo series of San Francisco, taken on two separate occasions within the past month amid splendid, sunny weather.
In trying to decide how to arrange all these photos, I thought of some alternatives:
1) chronological - where I started...where I ended up
2) formal/structural - by building type
3) geographical - as per location in San Francisco
For reasons of simplicity, I decided on alternative 3!
SOME NOTES, before you start viewing:
1) All images have by taken by the 5.0 mgpxl Sony DSC-V1 camera, except where noted.
2) THE PHOTOS IN THIS THREAD ARE SEVERELY REDUCED IN SIZE AND QUALITY BY THE SERVER I AM USING!!! Most were taking very quickly and without much regard for artistic composition. :wallbash:
3) I will do my best to give identifying captions, though I have yet to identify all the buildings myself (even with the help of www.skyscrapers.com)! You will find the names of architects/firms, construction year, location and additional comments preceding some photos.
4) Please also visit my Berkeley Photo Threads! :colgate: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Berkeley Churches
University of California, Berkeley: Part I
University of California, Berkeley: Part II
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CHINATOWN
The entrance gate to Chinatown, SF
A typical Chinatown apartment/commerce building
A view of Chinatown from California Street
CIVIC CENTER/MARKET
Lippert Building (unknown; 1924; Market Street)
Eastern Outfitting Company Building (Applegarth; 1909; Market Street; brick with woods posts; part of the Market Street Beautification project)
Golden Gate Theater (Lansburgh; 1922; NW corner of Taylor/Market; I am very fond of this south-facing façade with descending balcony windows)
Interior view
Unidentified as of yet
Unidentified
FINANCIAL DISTRICT/UPPER MARKET STREET
Views of the San Francisco Financial District from the Bay Bridge (first two photos taken with Nikon D70)
(Note the highly-sloped California Street in the distance behind the crane!)
Aerial view of the Financial District, with the Bay Bridge in the background
Hunter-Dulin Building (Schultze & Weaver; 1926; SW corner of Montgomery/Market)
View of the Hunter-Dulin Building, surrounded by skyscrapers
Northern Financial District building (unidentified)
Northern Financial District (with the TransAmerica Pyramid soaring on the right and Coit Tower in the distance)
A tiered skyscraper in the Northern Financial District
The Hobart Building (Polk; 1914; Market Street; one of San Francisco's most famous and well-liked buildings!)
Unidentified skyscraper with beaming sunlight
Hibernia Bank (Albert Pissis, architect; 1905/1907 rebuilt after fire; NW corner of McAllister/Market; the earliest surviving Classical building in San Francisco)
Sheraton Palace Hotel (Trowbridge & Livingston firm; 1909; SW corner of New Montgomery/Market)
The Humboldt Bank Building (Meyer & O'Brien; 1906; Market Street)
The Four Seasons Hotel and Residences (Handel & Associates; 2001; Market Street; first 21st Century skyscraper in SF)
A stunning apartment building
TransAmerica Pyramid
NORTH BEACH
Church of Saints Peter & Paul, North Beach, by twilight
Saint Francis of Assisi Church, North Beach
The Sentinel Building (on the ground level is the Café Niebaum-Coppola, owned and operated by San Francisco filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola)
A coffeehouse in North Beach
The apartment building separating North Beach from Chinatown at Broadway & Columbus Avenue
Map painted outside a restaurant in North Beach (note: not drawn to scale! :laugh: )
Casual restaurant life in North Beach
PRESIDIO (all photos taken with Nikon D70)
A military medical chopper performs a fly-over above the Presidio (former military grounds, now designated as a national park) during Memorial Day
American soldiers dressed in uniforms from earlier periods (WWS I & II, Civil War) make a solemn line-up during Memorial Day, 31 May 2004
Three American soldiers
The cemetery grounds at the Presidio
Old military barracks, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge
Man admiring the Golden Gate Bridge
The Palace of Fine Arts (Bernard Maybeck) in the Presidio
A bird decides to serve as the head of a statue gracing the Palace of Fine Arts
RUSSIAN HILL (taken with Nikon D70)
A view of Lombard Street, "the crookedest street in the world" (photo taken from moving vehicle!)
TELEGRAPH HILL
View of Coit Tower from the Bay Bridge (taken with Nikon D70)
View looking northeast from Union Square
UNION SQUARE (all aerial views taken from Westin-St. Francis Hotel with Sony DSC-V1)
In the center, from near to far, the Humboldt Bank Building and San Francisco Marriott.
A closer view
Union Square
View of unidentified building from Union Square
EXTRAS: SF TRANSPORTATION
A streetcar riding up Market Street
A Van Ness-Market Trolley
A cable car rides past Union Square on Powell Street
Sightseeing bus affront Union Square
My limousine on this very fine day :laugh: :hahano:
Finally, a wonderful light-hearted reminder of my trip to San Francisco :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: