These are actually from last Friday, didn’t feel a ton of urgency. Also, just a crazy week. I found out Monday my foot isn’t healing (3rd metatarsal fracture on my rt foot), so I have to spend another period in a postop shoe or boot. They’re going to maybe send me a bone growth stimulator, a real medical device that exists, sometimes the future is actually awesome. Method of action is ultrasonic waves stimulate blood flow to the affected area, as I understand. Anyway.
Still really loving the black and white of it all. I had a night to myself last friday and so went back into the city to try to catch the sunset and also the hours after, I really wanted to get some photos after dark of the bridge and the Marin headlands at super high ISOs (the new rig goes to 200k, did I mention? so cool). My timing was off, though, and I had to deal with beautiful dramatic sunset light in one of the more picturesque places in the world instead. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Palace of Fine Arts, way out next to the Presidio, always feels a little bit like a movie set that someone has shored up a bunch. Which is not far from the truth, it’s been used in a lot of movies, and was originally supposed to be temporary. It was completely rebuilt at some point (‘64-74).
It really is quite big. 21mm at f/16, probably, ISO 125.
It was super windy at the overlook. My original plan was to go and find the good spot that views the bridge from the SF side, not the ocean side, because it’s a parking lot that’s reasonably sheltered, but I couldn’t find it on the map. I ran across it years ago riding my bike the long way (out embarcadero, lands’ end, then south down through the Richmond) to Ocean Beach. I stopped and took a photo, I think? but I don’t even know what year it was, so finding the photo would be hard.
Turns out finding the parking lot is even harder. I thought it was here but actually it’s probably here. I’ll have to check, next time I’m out there in a couple years.
Land’s End and the area around GGB is all this weird touristy area that’s all former millitary, back when the Golden Gate was strategically important. Maybe it still is but we don’t need like, missile batteries front and center to protect the shipping lanes any more. So I went from simulated Roman ruins to actual American ruins.
The ocean: It’s Big! Really astoundingly so. It’s cool to be up on a cliff and get a better idea of just how big. It just keeps going, mysterious and wine-dark.
I stopped way down for this one to force it to go to ISO 100,000. It looks better and sharper than T-Max 400. I might make a big print of it, just to see what that looks like.
f/2 with the classic Canon LTM 50/1.2, this is the look that I was thinking of that made me buy the new camera in the first place. I think it has potential. I also need to take the new body out with the Noct. Just so many new things to try! Love it. Lotta shooting to do.
