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The many moods of San Francisco… the final chapter…

All things considered, my experiment with taking pictures of San Francisco with a big zoom lens, while using a tripod, worked fairly well. I just wanted some photos of the city lit up at night, without the bouncing effect that … Continue reading

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The many moods of San Francisco… part 4…

So, yeah, using the tripod to shoot pictures of San Francisco from way over across the bay worked out pretty well. There were a few problems. It looked dark to me, but the camera still picked up light from the … Continue reading

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The many moods of San Francisco… part 3…

Okay, so there was a reason I went down to the bay on my last night in the Bay Area, to that beach where I usually take the pictures of all the dogs… and to pet them when I miss … Continue reading

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The many moods of San Francisco… part 2…

I went down to the bay on my last night in the Bay Area, for a specific purpose… But I can explain what that was in another post, because I have at least two more posts worth of pictures from … Continue reading

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The many moods of San Francisco… part 1…

We are reaching the end… well, I say that, but I still have a lot of photos to post before the end actually happens… of my latest adventure in the Bay Area. And then, I had a lot of adventures … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: The final chapter…

Well, there are Big Johnny and I, at the last bar we visited at the end of a very long day in San Francisco. Man, I was pretty toasted by that point. I think, by that point, I had walked … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: In which I explain how a visit to a sixties exhibit at a museum ties in nicely with a long walk interspersed with much beer drinking… part 3…

In spite of the title, I am not really going to explain why I was with Big Johnny, dive-bar hopping through the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco, or who Big Johnny is, or how all this came about. You … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: In which I explain how a visit to a sixties exhibit at a museum ties in nicely with a long walk interspersed with much beer drinking… part 2… ***(Oh, and if you read all the posts about my adventure in San Francisco from the top down, the way the wordpress overlords have it set up, it will make even less sense than my blog usually does)***

The little postscript note in my title brings up an interesting problem we face as bloggers. If you do multiple posts about the same thing, the odds are that people will red them in the wrong order…  Which means that … Continue reading

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Bar hopping: In which I explain how a visit to a sixties exhibit at a museum ties in nicely with a long walk interspersed with much beer drinking… part 1…

Well, some of you may have seen this coming a mile away… which is about how far ‘the Haight’… (as we who grew up the Bay Area call the Haight/Ashbury district in San Francisco)… is from that museum. If you … Continue reading

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We came groovin’ up slowly…

Okay, I swear this is the last post for today, about my big San Francisco adventure a couple of days ago… I will finish off with the top picture of me, and that picture of Big Johnny, in a room … Continue reading

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