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San Francisco / Oakland Bay Bridge

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008
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San Francisco/Oakland Bay Bridge

This is the beautiful bay bridge that connects the San Francisco Peninsula to Oakland and the East Bay. I captured this photo from atop Yerba Buena Island on a great overlook looking almost directly down on the bridge and towards San Francisco (“The City”).

If you look closely at the large version of the photo, you can see streaks of white and red light, the result of car headlights and taillights being captured with a slow shutter setting on my camera. I was pleased with the lighting effect of this night shot.

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Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
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Bixby Creek Bridge, Big Sur, California

Another beautiful scenic shot from my weekend trip down coastal Highway 1 in Northern California. This photo was taken of the coastline at Bixby Creek Bridge, near Big Sur 120 miles south of San Francisco. According to Wikipedia, the bridge is 714 feet long, 280 feet high and was built in 1932. It is supposed to be “one of the most photographed features on the West Coast” due to the beautiful coastal scenery shown here and its central location on the California coastal highway.

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Summer in San Francisco

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco

Here’s a lovely photo I took of the Golden Gate Bridge in late June of this summer. The beautiful colors in this photo show just how pleasant a warm summer afternoon can be in San Francisco. During much of the year it’s not uncommon to see the bridge enveloped in fog, even when the city is bright and sunny. I happened to be in the city on this perfectly clear day so I drove across Golden Gate to the Marin Headlands to look around and captured this photo.

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Late Night Golden Gate

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
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Pedestrian Entrance, Golden Gate Bridge

I usually wouldn’t take a photo like this with all the cluttered signs, fences, etc. in the way, but in this case I’m glad I did! This is the pedestrian/bike entrance to the Golden Gate Bridge on the San Francisco side. The bridge walkways are closed at 9pm each night and are patrolled by police officers on bicycles. The bridge apparently has a terrible record for suicides – people jumping off the bridge – can you imagine?!?

I used HDR to create this image from 3 different exposure shots. It allowed me to capture both the glow of the bridge in the background, and the soft lighting in the background hills of Sausalito and the foreground signs without the traffic sign (“2 Lanes”) being completely overexposed.

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I like how it turned out, do you? Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

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