Lights
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Lights.
Golden Gate garden
Last Friday, after spending about an hour wandering from the top to the bottom of Fort Point, I was happily surprised to discover all kinds of colorful flowers near the Golden Gate Bridge Welcome Center. Even though I can’t identify them, they were just what I needed to see on this day when the sun was obscured not by […]
Fort Point lighthouse
Doorways
Under the bridge
It was very smoky in San Francisco today, but I still managed to get some great photos at Fort Point. I hope to be sharing them with you soon!
Watch your steps!
As I hiked along the California Coastal Trail, skirting the Presidio in San Francisco, I found an awful lot of stairs. There were plenty of steps accessing the old concrete structures like Battery Chamberlin, not to mention those on the trail leading down to Marshall’s Beach. I’ve always been fascinated by staircases ever since I was very young; growing up […]
Alcatraz — Building 64 and China Alley
My absolute favorite part of my visit to Alcatraz last August was exploring the area beneath Building 64 — the area known as “China Alley.” The upper (concrete masonry) portion of Building 64 wasn’t built until the early 1900s, some 40 years after construction of the arched brick foundations. Those upper levels were built to house the military and prison […]
Awesome ice plant
Ice plant flowers come in a lot of different colors, but this was one of the prettiest I’ve ever seen. I spotted it near Baker Beach after I took a slight wrong turn on my way to Battery Chamberlin.
Battery Chamberlin
I keep going back to San Francisco on single-day trips, trying to capture some good images of Fort Point. My first trip was on a weekend during Fleet Week, and I came home with 82 shots on my memory card — which I somehow managed to lose in the ether while transferring them from camera to laptop. For my next […]