Since tonight is Halloween, I thought it might be sort of appropriate to learn some of the fascinating history of San Francisco’s cemeteries in this episode of California’s Gold. But instead of spooky stuff, Huell shows us some of the most amazing and beautiful spots in the city — and tells stories about a few of the most illustrious and […]
San Francisco — views from a bus window one Tuesday morning in October.
I love the idea of visiting places to re-create old photographs. It’s turning out to be surprisingly harder than I expected — but I’m still having a lot of fun trying.
You can find plenty of holes in the ground around San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge; they are the remnants of earthworks constructed during the 1850s — part of the same work that transformed the island of Alcatraz into a fort. I especially like this tunnel because, being short, I only have to tilt my head slightly to the side on […]
I’ll admit I’ve never seen a traffic backup on a bike trail before. I guess it was inevitable, given that this was in San Francisco, near the Golden Gate Bridge.
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Things People Drive (Ride, Pilot or Captain).
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Places people visit.
When I was in San Francisco last August, one destination firmly on my itinerary was Ocean Beach, the Cliff House, and the Great Highway. I was drawn there after reexamining my family slides from 1956 — which I shared back in Memory Monday weeks 8 and 9 — including images of my grandfather and my aunt walking along Ocean Beach […]
I love photographing bridges, both large and small. My earliest bridge images date from the 1980s and 1990s, when I first discovered their attraction. The stone dam/footbridge in the two photos below, located in Negro Bar State Park, no longer exists. It was destroyed during the building of the new Lake Natoma Crossing. Only a few remnants remain, buried under […]