Frisco Vista

This photo of the San Francisco skyline was taken from a rooftop on Potrero Hill.

Here’s a belated valentine for back-to-work day following Valentine’s Day and the Presidents Day holiday. For Valentine’s Day Namastenancy linked to Robert Indiana’s Love painting — though a different version than the one featured on the SFMOMA web site, which I won’t show since it carries a copyright notice from the artist (so much for [...]

While we’re checking out the SF skyline, here’s a closer view, from Port View Park in Oakland.
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This charming photo, taken near Moscone center, is from roger jones’ photostream.
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David Newman administs a Flickr pool called San FranGone: The City as It Was. Here you can find photos, postcards (such as the mid-a960s cable car above), and maps ranging from the nineteenth century to fairly recently. Newsom says:
Please post your image in this group if:
You can’t go there anymore (i.e. Playland-at-the-Beach)
If the person, place [...]

This photo of the Filbert Steps from EricGjerde’s photostream

is actually a composite of many photos, as this detail shows:

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The Exploratorium has a pretty cool roof cam. It is set to shift its view every fifteen minutes, or you can select from several presets.
If several people are visiting the site at the same time they queue up to take turns controlling the camera. When you are in control of the camera you have the [...]

Bubbles and balloons in Golden Gate Park, from brokenchopstick’s photostream.

A good group of Flickr photosets by Thomas Hawke, who also has a set on San Francisco neighborhoods. Click the screenshot to visit the site.

Here’s a view of the San Francisco skyline that I took from a car crossing the bridge a while back. I’m posting it because, unlike the Golden Gate Bridge, there is no pedestrian walkway on the Bay Bridge, and since stopping is prohibited one rarely sees this angle on the city in photographs.

 
From February 23 through May 18, SFMOMA will presents an exhibition of photographic works by Lee Friedlander (the show was organized by organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York). B in the D, when photography was getting a little full of itself, Friedlander infused it with irony and energy. His B/W photos often [...]

Don Strickler has a webcam with a nice view of the bay. It’s located about 900 feet above sea level in Sausalito. The images are captured by a 3-megapixel NetCam XL.
Strickler, now based in Sonoma, also has a wine-related blog.

Eadweard Muybridge produced two panoramas of the city. This one, made in January 1877 (the same year he produced photographic evidence that a trotting horse may lift all four hooves off the ground), was shot from the Mark Hopkins Mansion at California and Mason. Muybridge used 13 different cameras to make the image. At America [...]

Aerial photos, a flickr set. Shown: Golden Gate Park, looking southeast.

Here’s another in my series of photos of water lilies. This is from the University of California Botanical Garden at Berkeley. With this one you get a bonus: a water snake on one of the pads.
Lily 1 (Getty Villa)
Lily 2 (San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers) (Illustrator artwork)
More to come …

I took this photo of the Bay Bridge from the Ferry Building. But a while ago when my daughter was at the Ferry Building she was accosted by a security guy as she was shooting pictures. I suppose much of my photography is travel photography, whereas Ellen is more of an art photographer. So she [...]

I guess if you’re doing a San Francisco-related blog sooner or later you have to post a sunset shot of the bridge. San Francisco is not really known for spectacular sunsets — something to do with the fog, the latitude, the climate, I don’t know. But occasionally we get a stunner. This picture was taken [...]

The San Francisco Public Library’s historical photograph collection is a great resource for old photos of San Francisco, such as this one of snow in Golden Gate Park in 1932. You can search the database online, and if you want print-quality photos you can order them very cheaply. I got several of the photos for [...]

Here is a remarkably detailed (7000 pixels wide) photo of the city in the wake of the ‘06 earthquake and fire. According to the legend on the photo, it was taken from the Lawrence Captive Airship. The photo was marked “copyright the Geo R. Lawrence Co., Chicago,” but works from 1906 have passed into the [...]