San Francisco is a wonderful city.  Never ever visit without a camera in tow.  🙂  Whether shooting casually along the streets, or visiting iconic locations, there is so much to shoot.  It is a very vibrant city with lots of texture and diversity.

I wanted to do an evening shoot on my last night of a recent visit.  Hoping to photograph the Golden Gate Bridge at dusk, I realized this would be virtually impossible with no car.  There are little or no public transportation options after business hours.  So I started looking for other options … the Warf area, Coit Tower, Lombard Street, Twin Peaks … as I mentioned before, there are SO many places and things to shoot.

I came across this location on Potrero Hill during my research.  It was something different – less iconic, yet a stunning view, particularly with the foreground curving highway.  So my colleague Logan and I set forth to find it.  We took BART to the 16th street stop, then quickly came to realize our destination was much farther away than expected from the train station.  We walked at least 30 minutes to get here, through some very rough neighborhoods of the Mission District and up several gargantuan hills.  Unfortunately all light in the sky was lost by the time we arrived, but the view was still incredible.  It was well worth the adventure.  And not only did I get the image I wanted, and a fantastic dinner at an authentic, local neighborhood restaurant, but we could see AT&T Park as the Giants sealed their position in the World Series.

I wish the small real estate of your screen could to this justice (click on image to enlarge).

San Francisco from Potrero Hill area

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