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It’s difficult to get this many San Francisco icons into one image while your feet are still on the ground. This is a series of six images I took and photomerged together. At the time I was hanging over the edge of the west side of Pier 39. From the left you can see Coit Tower, the Transamerica Pyramid Building, loads of sea lions, the Golden Gate Bridge, and Alcatraz.
Click on the image for much higher resolution and loads more detail.
Powell and Market Streets – San Francisco, California – Forever 21 in building on left and GAP on the right, cable cars in the middle
San Francisco has been forecasted to receive as much as a foot of rain over the next five or six days. Last weekend was beautiful blue skies as evidenced by this photo I took near the end of the cable car line that runs down Powell Street.
Today’s photo didn’t require the breaking of any laws, but it was a bit sneaky how I came about it. In the Hilton Hotel to the west of Union Square I took the elevator to the 44th floor. During the day you can’t go to the 46th floor where the Cityscape Bar and Restaurant opens in the evening, and a special key is required for the 45th floor. From the 44th floor I walked up the stairs to Cityscape and found I was the only one there.
This panorama of San Francisco isn’t what you can see by looking out any one window. I took 5 photos looking out one side of the building and 6 more pics from a different side and then photomerged them all together to achieve this 200 degrees or so of panorama.
Today’s photo was from yesterday’s Standford-University of Oregon women’s volleyball match in Eugene. Stanford won in three straight sets and will retain their #1 ranking. The Ducks, with their loss to California on Friday night as well, will likely fall in the standings from their #2 perch.
We did a little hiking in the mountains near Mt. Shasta in California this past weekend. In today’s photo (covering about 180 degrees) you can see Castle Lake, Heart Lake (lower left corner partially obscured by trees), Black Butte, and (on the far right) Castle Crags.
Today’s panorama photo is a photomerge of 11 pictures I took from the Brooklyn Bridge. The result you see above covers more than 200 degrees and includes Manhattan on the far left, the Manhattan Bridge straight ahead, and Brooklyn on the far right. If you look closely you can see a helicopter, the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and the new World Trade Center Buildings (under construction). Unfortunately, you cannot see the Geico Gecko.