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Specs – North Beach
Saturday night – fast-forward about 1 hour. Specs is a bar in North Beach with a lot of (interesting) history. The word i’ve heard (please take this with a grain of salt) is that it’s connected to the strip bar (now Larry Flynt’s Hustler club, or some such nonsense) upstairs via an old, now unused…
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North Beach Pub Crawl
After the waltzing across the bridge there was some walking around North Beach before dinner. This lead to an impromptu bar crawl – a warm-up to real one that Michelle and Mark will be hosting come January. Here we are at the first stop, Vesivio, a well-known San Francisco bar located right next to City…
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Mason and Green St: Right In Front of My Old House
Everyone loves cable cars right? The tourists sure do. It’s kind of funny – if you take pictures of the cable car the people riding them pose for you. They’re really proud of the fact that they’re on the cable car – maybe just that they made it through the line to ride the thing…
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Washington Square Park, San Francisco
Looking south into Washington Square Park the sky seemed much more omnious with an infrared filter strapped to the front. (although a couple of hours later i got totally soaked) For some reason all of north beach was deserted Sunday morning… it may have been the fact that daylight savings went into effect in the…
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Weeping Willow – Washington Square Park
Shaking in the wind this tree looks like it’s made of cotton. Many new digital cameras have a built in filter to block infrared light. Seems that the new CCDs/CMOS sensors are super-sensitive to IR. Without a filter there to block the unnecessary IR your color pictures look strung out (sort of like those ones…