This photo was shot with my iPhone pressed against the window on the top floor of the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco which is located at the top of Nob Hill. This ...

The California Sea Lions (don’t call them seals) at Pier 39 are a big draw for tourists. A couple of years ago they just went away and then just as mysteriously returned. ...

Some of the best views of Alcatraz, short of boarding a tour boat, are from the end of Pier 39 in San Francisco.

The Embarcadero in San Francisco is a great place for a walk on a beautiful day. Pier 28 is one of the many piers around the bay. Many have been turned into ...

It was only after I took this picture of the rocket ship street art in San Francisco that I noticed the homeless person sleeping in the foreground of the picture. I found ...

Shown next to my lovely assistant for scale, this is what a main suspension cable from the Golden Gate Bridge looks like in cross-section. The steel for the cables was supplied, at ...

This photo shows a cable car “grip” form San Francisco’s Cable Car Museum and Cable Car Barn. This contraption is basically a set of pliers. Somewhere along the orange part of the ...

These crab traps at San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf are a reminder that the wharf is not just about wax museums and cheap t-shirt shops but also still has a working fishing fleet. ...

The “Blind Faith” is one of the fleet of fishing ships that still ply the waters off San Francisco from Fisherman’s Wharf.

On the left is the iconic Transamerica Pyramid and on the right the building where Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas and others founded the movie studio American Zoetrope which produced films such ...