San Francisco with a $145 Casio EX-Z1080 point-and-shoot

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San Francisco	-> Vote for the images that you like! Look down in the lower left corner of your screen.	Palace Hotel
	Palace Hotel
The Palace	The Palace	The Palace
The Palace	The Palace	The Palace
Palace Hotel	Powell and Post Sts.	Powell St.
Geary Blvd.	Maiden Lane	Powell St.
Russian Hill	Post St.	Sir Francis Drake Hotel. I used the railing as imperfect support
Powell St.	St. Francis Hotel, Union Square	St. Francis Hotel at Union Square: Lens flare adds romantic feel to the lights
"The man in the white hat". He is seen in the beginning of the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"	St. Francis Hotel	Powell St.
Union Square, San Francisco	Union Square	Marian and Vivian, "The San Francisco Twins" and celebrities
Bride to be	Post St., St. Francis Hotel, Saturday night	Free movies at Union Square
I used scene mode "city lights" here.	Free drinks are served during the free movie! Direct Flash; I should have used "red eye" reduction. Focused in dead of night!	Brazilian Bride and Groom, street photography
street photography under yellow sodium lights	The flare of this lens on city lights adds a romantic foggy effect I like.	Entire building is Nike Shoe Store at Union Square
Bride-to-be from Winnemucca, Nevada at "Lefty O'Doul's"	Dashiel Hammett, the hard boiled crime novelist, walked these streets. He wrote "The Maltese Falcon"	He plays lots of "Santana" and Jimi Hendrix tunes, Geary and Powell Sts., Union Square ISO 3200 while using a tripod
Market St.	Club 500; Bachelorette Party in limousine	Bachelorette Party
Bachelorette Party, leaning into a limousine	Bachelorette Party	Bachelorette Party
Read their signs. Entrance to Union Square	Union Square	Union Square, San Francisco
Click "original" to enjoy details	Alma Spreckles, sugar baronness; War in Philippines memorial 1899	Union Square
Brazilian martial arts practice at Union Square	Union Square	He is the "Erhu" player seen and heard in the movie, "The Pursuit of Happyness" with Will Smith
Stockton St., in front of Macy's	.	Stockton St.
Stockton St.	Read this. Important!	In 1926, on the 2nd floor of this building, Philo T. Farnesworth invented and patented television when he was 21 years old.
Crocker Galleria, The Financial District	Crocker Galleria; Financial District	America's oldest Chess club upstairs. Also California's oldest library upstairs.
Corner sharpness: Look down in lower right corner	Cable Car turnaround, end of Powell St.	Click "original" to blow it up and see details
Christmas in San Francisco	Cable Car Turnaround	.
1 Man Band at the Cable Car turnaround	1 Man Band	Powell St., and Geary St.; Union Square
Powell St., Union Square	Maiden Lane	Opera Singer on Maiden Lane, Union Square
Near Union Square, Stockton St.	Maiden Lane
.	Union Square	Post St.
Stockton St.	ISO 200 handheld, Macy's	.
moderate macro	ISO 800, The Apple Store	ISO 3200
Stockton St.	Market and Stockton Sts.	Sight Seeing Bus, Stockton St.
Boudin Bakery, Market St.	Market St.	Market St.
Market St., San Francisco	Market St.	Market St. - Ferry Building Tower in rear
Union Pacific Railway Building and California St. Cable Car	Market St.	Market St.
Green tree public park on a roof. Market St.	Market St.	'49er celebrating California's Entrance to Statehood; note 6-shooter on his hip. I used EV +2
Cafe de la Presse	Entrance to Chinatown	Chinatown
Chinatown	Chinatown	ISO 3200, Chinatown
Chinatown, Bust of Mao	Chinatown: See Erhu player in lower right corner	Chinatown
Chinatown	Chinatown	Chinatown
Chinatown	Fortune Cookie bakery, Chinatown	Where the revolutionaries of Sun Yat Sen, the father of modern China plotted in San Francisco
Dragon bike	Dragon Bike	Dragon bike used in Chinese New Year parades
Marijuana Store, Polk Gulch District	Female Impersonators' shows	Polk Gulch District, Female impersonators' shows
Vesuvio's, 1950's Beat Poet's Saloon; So sharp: see the stitching in her pockets	Read it	Jack Kerouac Alley, North Beach, San Francisco
Poetry reading in Jack Kerouac Alley, San Francisco, unsteady handheld 1/8th sec	Next to City Lights Bookstore and Vesuvio's, 1/8th sec unsteady handholding	Where the "Beat Generation" published and sold their poetry
Digital range: sensor crop; long telephoto; ISO 800	Northbeach bar and nightclub	Saloon in business since 1865; North Beach
Use of "Soft Flash" mode ISO 3200	Soft Flash and ISO 3200; The 1865 Saloon	ISO 3200; without "Soft Flash"
ISO 3200 and "Soft Flash" fill. Look at shadows, look at flash fill on his shirt; lack of orange hue on shirt due to flash.	A garlic restaurant, "Where food is a condiment".	City Hall , San Francisco
City Hall, Civic Center		The Financial District
The Financial District	The Financial District and Nob Hill in the distance	The Financial District
	Belden Alley, The Financial District	Belden Alley, The Financial District
Extreme (digital range) Telephoto, Faceless Figure, The Financial District	.	Long Telephoto, about 350mm (35mm equivalent)
Normal, 38mm Faceless Figures at top of the building, The Financial District	The Financial District: Shot through glass handheld	The Financial District
The Financial District	.	The Star Girl
The Star girl	Plaza at Sansome and Sutter Sts.	Wells Fargo Bank, The Financial District
Authentic Wells Fargo Stage Coach, shot through glass	Authentic Wells Fargo Stage Coach	Wells Fargo Bank, Grant and Market Sts.
Pony Express Headquarters, Montgomery St.	California's oldest restaurant, Since 1849	Where Bank of America originally started; then called "Bank of Italy", onMontgomery St.
Bank Safe inside the first location of Bank of America. Originally called "Bank of Italy"	California St. in front of the Omni Hotel	"Brides of March". Every year they get together.
"Brides of March" on Ides of March	"Brides of March" on Ides of March	Sutter St.
Sutter St., The old "White House", now "Banana Republic",	Sutter St.	Blow it up: see the detail
Post St.	Cafe Coton, a custom shirt store, Grant Ave.	Post St.
Post St.	Shreve & Co., jewelers since 1852	Saks Fifth Avenue
Saks Fifth Avenue, Post St.	Bebe, Grant Ave.	Gump's, specializing in East Asian gifts
Neiman Marcus, Union Square	Inside Neiman Marcus looking towards Union Square	Neiman Marcus
In front of Neiman Marcus fashion store.	Neiman Marcus	The original lighting does look like the picture, contrasty.
Neiman Marcus	Neiman Marcus	Stockton St.
Specialty shop district around Union Square	Larry Hunt. Drummer seen and heard in the movie "The Pursuit of Happyness"	Read his sign; enlarge it
	California St. and Grant Ave.	Balcutha
Balcutha	Steam powered tugboat "Hercules", Maritime Museum	Authentic WWII Liberty Ship, "The Jeremiah O'brien"
Rosie the Riveter	Liberty Ship, San Francisco	WWII Submarine, "Pampanito"
WWII submarine, "Pampanito" was in combat.	I used a cooler color temperature white balance	Fresnel lens for a lighthouse, Maritime Museum
Sourdough Bread	Fisherman's Wharf	"The Bushman" wiggles the bush and makes sounds like a dog. He has been scaring tourists for 28 years!
Fisherman's Wharf	Fisherman's Wharf	Peruvian Muscian: Without fill flash or "Soft Flash"; note bluish shirt.
With "Soft Flash". Note bluish shadows in shirt mostly eliminated.	Fisherman's Wharf	Laughing Sal - Musee' Mechanique, Fisherman's Wharf
Laughing Sal - Musee' Mechanique	Musee' Mechanique, Fisherman's Wharf
Musee' Mechanique, Fisherman's Wharf	Musee' Mechanique	Musee' Mechanique
Musee' Mechanique	Pier 39	A completely relaxing Sunday afternoon in The City
Pier 39	Lotta's [horse] Fountain; Kearny & Market Sts.	Vigil against Scientology
"It's a trap"	Activist against Scientology; we have eccentric activists you see	Activist against Scientology
Activist doing counter video??	Activist against Scientology; we are a theatrical town	War protest on Market St.
How the city pays its bills.	See sharpness: click "original" size	North Beach, The Italian section of San Francisco
The film, "The Pursuit of Happyness" was filmed here with Will Smith and his son seated near the front door.	Will Smith and son sat here in "The Pursuit of Happyness" movie	North Beach; enjoy detail, click "original"
Cafe Trieste, North Beach	Francis Ford Coppola: The director and script writer of "The Godfather" editing his scripts for this film in Cafe Trieste.	Beat Museum
Beat Museum, Jack Kerouac, San Francisco	"Bathtub Literature", The Beat Museum	The Beat Museum, North Beach
Beat Museum; note "Howl" book.	Al Hinkle character of "Ed Dunkle" in the book "On The Road" with admirer	Original "Beat Generation" figure. He cruised with the Beats; character in "On The Road"
He toured with Neal Cassady in book "On The Road". He was 20 years old when he knew Beat Jack Kerouac	Bachelor Party; in front of "The Condor" in North Beach	Read it. Where topless and bottomless dancing started in the U.S., "The Condor"
Stairs, North Beach, Broadway and Kearney Sts.	Albatross Saloon, Barbary Coast, 1907	performer at "The Parkside"
"Bottom of the Hill Saloon"	It has a motorcycle engine.
Low Rider in front of "Bottom of the Hill" nightclub	Low Rider	Rat Rod
Rat Rod	Rat Rod	Festival, Golden Gate Park
The Haight Ashbury		.
Increased saturation +1	click below "original" then cover your screen! Increased saturation.	French Restaurant "Boulevard" on The Embarcadero Waterfront
On The Embarcadero Waterfront	The view from the same light rail platform northward. The Bay Bridge in the background	Baseball fans walk over "Lefty O'doul Bridge" from their cars to the baseball park
Trains drop off baseball fans right in front of the baseball park	AT&T Baseball Park, San Francisco	Giant's Baseball Park on "All Star Day"
Juan Marichal, pitcher, AT&T Baseball Park	McCovey Cove; where the home runs end up in the water. Note baseball fan's commuter ferry direct to the ballpark!	The fireboat that saved San Francisco from the 1989 Loma Prieta fire and earthquake when the fire hydrants failed.
Pier 26, The Embarcadero waterfront	Along The Embarcadero	California St. Cable Car line
Cable Car ride through the Financial District	Cable Car ride to Nob Hill	Looking towards the Financial District on Nob Hill at the Cable Car crossing
Nob Hill	Nob Hill	Fairmont Hotel on left; Mark Hotel Hopkins on the right
Mark Hopkins Hotel, Top of Nob Hill; Oh, what do we have here?	Double Happyness! On the top of Nob Hill!	The Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill, San Francisco
The Fairmont Hotel, Nob Hill	The Fairmont Hotel	The Fairmont Hotel
Read it. One of the most important rooms the world has ever known. The Fairmont Hotel	The United Nations was created in this room at the Fairmont Hotel. This is where delegates first met to draft the U.N. Charter.	Russian Hill
Coming up next: The world's most crooked street	Lombard Street	Old Italian street car
The Ferry Building at The Embarcadero	Fort Point, San Francisco	The entire Golden Gate Bridge on a spectacular blue sky day.
Macy's, San Francisco; through the street window	San Francisco Married Mice and chauffeur	CIMG3177.JPG
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CIMG3179.JPG	CIMG3184.JPG	Fillmore St.
Union Square, San Francisco	710 Ashbury St.; The former home of the Grateful Dead Band	Golden Gate Bridge, captured from the Marin County North end.

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