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 [...]

This photo of the Golden Gate Bridge at sunset was taken from Crissy Field. Crissy Field was an airfield from 1921 to 1936. One reason to close the field was someone built [...]

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.

San Francisco has some of the best public art of the cities I have visited. This Jazz Mural is on a building at the corner of Broadway and Columbus Avenue in San [...]

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 [...]

Fort Mason was built to protect San Francisco’s harbor from Confederate attack during the American Civil War. But in the 1930s a very large bridge was built over the fort. This picture [...]