Ferry Building and Embarcadero Center Building. San Francisco, California. July 12, 2010. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Embarcadero Center and Ferry Building near the San Francisco waterfront on a foggy morning.
This is another photograph that I’ve been sitting on for a while – first while it languished as a raw file between last July and early this year when I did my annual review of the previous year’s images, and then after post-processing as I posted photographs from Death Valley, the Sierra, and the coast. It has been sitting on my desktop long enough.
The photograph was made from the dock side of the San Francisco Ferry Building, looking back over the building past its iconic tower towards some of the modern buildings in the Financial District. The light was very interesting – there was still, obviously, the usual summer morning overcast where I was. However, behind me and out over the Bay the clouds were breaking up and the light was starting to come in at a low angle from off the bay, providing a glow to features like the windows of the tall background building.
This photo was made while walking streets in San Francisco and shooting mostly “old school” with just a 50mm prime.
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The juxtaposition of the similar shapes of the towers, old and new, works very well. Takes me back…I used to eat lunch in the plaza there while working summers in S.F. to put myself through college. Even farther back, I remember taking the car ferry from Oakland as a kid. And then there was the great 1906 quake…oh, wait, that wasn’t me.