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45 Fremont, #4
Made by Thomas Hawk
So today there I was minding my own business shooting 45 Fremont in downtown San Francisco when all of a sudden a Shorenstein Company employee security guard decides to give me the finger in my photographs of the building. Next thing you know I get the typical hassle. Except normally when the guards come out all polite like and all this guy instead comes out middle finger a blazing and telling me that I'm not allowed to photograph the building from the public space. He goes on to tell me how he doesn't like to have his photograph taken, etc. (hint, if you don't like your photograph taken, probably best not to come swaggering out of a public building middle finger a blazin', remember any old asshole can have a blog these days). And insists on telling me how if I want to photograph the building I'm going to need to get approval from building management. blah, blah, blah. Well, this guy got off on the wrong foot with me in the first place so I politely inform him that despite his objections that I'm on public property and as such have every right to photograph whatever I want and if he'd like he can feel free to call the police and the three of us can have a conversation. Of course he asks me why I need to be such an asshole and I remind him that he was the one giving me the bird, etc. etc. All I am is a lowly photography hobbyist but that since he was being so nice and all that he could look forward to his photo being on the internet. He asks me if I *really* want him to call the police. Again, I answer nicely, yes. Click through for the rest of the story... thomashawk.com/2006/04/photographing-architecture-is-not....
The Bay Bridge, from the Embarcadero
Made by MumbleyJoe
This was taken along the Embarcadero in San Francisco, just south of the Ferry Building. For those who don't know that's the Bay Bridge which connects San Francisco to the Berkeley & Oakland area via Yerba Beuna Island in the middle of the bay. I made two tiny tiny adjustment to the raw file before posting this which were pretty subtle - I've shot in RAW format on some occasions, but still haven't really decided how to work with them yet, so this was a small experiment. For the most part this is how it looked at the time, and coming out of the camera.
Alamo Square
Made by Aaron Siladi
These are some Victorian homes nearby Alamo Square Park known as the Painted Ladies. One of the cliche SF postcard views, I thought I would try my hand at shooting it since it's only a mile or so from my apt.... Also my first time using the Photomatix 3.0 beta from hdrsoft, it seemed pretty smooth. Alamo_Square_20080102_0077_78_79_80_81_tonemapped
Before the KABOOM
Made by Sutanto
The Bay Bridge as seen from 15th floor terrace of 400 Beale Street. Recommended . You can check out the KABOOM .
Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption
Made by hyfen
for another take. San Francisco, California Pier Luigi Nervi, Pietro Belluschi 1971
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