Can you ID the structures in the distance?
From left
1 Rincon Hill – home to Famous People and post-IPO computer nerds
100 McAllister – home to UC Hastings, the largest and oldest law school in the West; and
City Hall - home to the highest classical dome in the Western Hemisphere
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Check out this shot at the Telstar Logistics Flickrstream to get the annotations.
Our West Bay under the clouds, as per usual:
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Looks a little hilly, huh?
The new, slightly higher digital antlers are coming in quite nicely, don’t you think?
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How can it be
Believe me
The sun always shines on T.V
Look what’s falling on San Francisco this AM.
It’s hail! Newsworthy hail. (Run for the hills, Ma Barker.)
Or snow, some people call this kind of thing snow.
But not area Kiwi jodiolson. She knows the score:
“Simultaneous sun and hail in SF. In New Zealand, they call these sun showers.”
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And here’s how it looked in the SoMA, per Bluoz
(Thank Gaia I don’t live in Chicago or someplace….)
Here it is – watch the planes take off one after the other…
“The magic fog is rolling into Golden Gate Bridge – twilight moment time Lapse study
This 37 seconds time lapse video clip was bit challenge to me when I put them togther with 200 frames in about 1 hour.
Since the shutter speed changes of the begining 1 to end at 30 seaconds. Which makes the video clipse not smooth playing if I put them on one consitent speed. that I change the re-play video clips speed from 15 to 4 seaconds for about each segment.
I am still new in this type time lapse video clip study. How to to the panning time lapse? how to do the change the perpsctive from wide to narror angle during the time lapse recording? there much more for me to learn in the long time.
Any input and sugguest will be greatly appreiacatie it.
I hope you will enjoy my lucky snap moments and thanks so much of your visits!!!
Location: Marin Headlands
Date: Jan 14 2011
Time: 5:37pm to 6:21pm
Total about 200 frames of this time lapse video clip
I hope you will enjoy my lucky snap moments and thanks so much of your visits!!!
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As seen from Mount Tam.
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Why are all the buildings on that side of the Golden Gate and not this one?
This is what the TransAmerica Pyramid Building looks like from the ground on a typically foggy day in the 415. At least the sky was mellow yesterday - it wasn’t all angry, Midwestern-style.
On days like yesterday, you can’t see the shining star on top, either the natural or the artificial. Oh well.
But at least they didn’t leave the lights on, blazing away on the depopulated floors.
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Tonight’s Fourth of July fireworks show had a fairly high fog ceiling, so it would have to rate as better than average. Better than last year anyway, but not as good as 2007.
Here’s an excellent eight-second exposure of the northern waterfront show from Lafayette Park in Specific Whites Pacific Heights. Click to expand:
And here’s a real-time shot of the same show from Twin Peaks:
Everything is done double – that’s the way they do it. Here’s a double double:
But this is what happens when the fireworks get too high – you can only see the bottom halves sometimes due to the fog:
Let’s look across the Bay over at Sausalito. That’s USF in the foreground:
Now here are some illegal explosions in San Francisco. This was an impressive burst above the northern Mission district:
And here’s Mission Bay / Dogpatch with Alameda / Oakland in the background – very nice:
The Mission and points south all had lots of illegal fireworks booming:
Oh noes, it’s a flare, shooting high above Twin Peaks…
…and then landing somewhere in the Castro District:
And there you have it.
When they tell you “Fog could shroud S.F. fireworks“ up in Fishermans Wharf at 9:30 PM on the Fourth of July 2009, what they really mean is Fog WILL shroud S.F. fireworks, barring some Act of God, or Gaia, or Whomever.
Sometimes the weather is good, sometimes not. This year, not.
Check it out from 2008. Click to expand:
This is by no means the worst case scenario. So when they talk about special low-level fireworks and let’s cross our fingers, they’re spinning. And spinning is just the polite term for lying. So, what do you do? Head on over to the Mission District, where they’ll have oodles of Yelp-rated, illegal, illicit, MUY PRO HI BI DA DO (now I say that in Spanish because that’s how exotic and not allowed it is) fireworks, fog-free, for free. Just check out this screen saver album from 2007.
Of course, you can always go with the flow and follow the madding crowd northward into la niebla, le brouillard. And who knows, maybe it will be clear the way it was in 2007. Thusly:
This is the view you had from Crissy Field on 7-4-2007 – those lights at the bottom have something to do with Fishermans Wharf.
But dude, don’t drive up there. Even if they didn’t block off the streets and you already had a parking space waiting for you, you’d still have to drive out of there in a traffic jam when the show’s over at 10:00 PM. Of course, you could always hang out at all the places that will be open up in the Wharf after the show, but maybe you’d be better off driving into the City with your bikes in tow and parking South of the 101 near the Giants’ AT&T Park. Then you could ride up the flat, flat Embarcadero (on the sidewalk – it’s legal) back and forth.
Can you dig the colors, man?
But if that doesn’t pan out, you could follow the cable cars on Hyde (that’s the one north-south street they don’t block off, in my experience) and drop off the brood. Whatever you do, stay off of Van Ness. Or you could BART it to the Embarcadero Station and then hoof it up to Pier 39. But forget about MUNI, ’cause walking would be faster.
And most likely it will be foggy anyway, you’ve been warned.
Dress warm. Panthers out.
Fourth of July Waterfront Celebration
Saturday, July 4, 2009
1:00 PM to 9:30 PM
“PIER 39 invites you to enjoy a fun-filled Independence Day celebration. Rock out with ‘Take 2′ from 1-4pm followed by San Francisco’s favorite 80′s cover band, ‘Tainted Love’ from 6-9:30pm. Immediately after the entertainment look to the sky as the City of San Francisco lights up the night with it’s Firework’s Spectacular, accompanied by a musical simulcast from KISS FM 98.1. PIER 39 has the best viewing area on the bay! In addition, 39 of PIER 39′s businesses will remain open after the fireworks so that guests can miss the traffic, enjoy the PIER, have a drink, get a bite to eat, and shop. Click here for the list of locations open after the fireworks. Sponsored by Crystal Geyser ALPINE SPRING WATER, DeLoach Vineyards, Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream, The San Francisco Examiner, Tawain Tourism and Asus.”
