San Francisco -- Part 1
The really nice thing about seeing Byron again
after all those years was the way our conversation picked up as though
it had never been interrupted. The fact that he was still as bleary-eyed
as in our Princeton days (his son, Alexander Triantaphyllos had been
born hours before), probably helped. That's the old familiar grin as he
drove us toward Burlingame where he has bought a rather pleasant house
next to a bubbling brook.
He promptly put the Mavica to use...
And this is Poobah whom we hauled off to the vet
almost immediately after I arrived...
Beth and said baby. Hey, it's a baby. What else is
there to say?
Burlingame Railway Station. I thought the
Roman-style "V" instead of "U" was a trifle California but... Wait a second.
I am in California!
I love trains. There's probably some Freudian
explanation that also will reveal that I am deeply deranged. (Y'all know
this already of course.) This is the train from San Francisco to San
Jose...
A statue of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, a former lawyer
from South Africa, takes centre stage on the plaza at the port offices
gazing out at the Bay Bridge.
This is another of those pictures which isn't. I
photoshopped these two together. Because the Mavica autoexposes, one
side ended up brighter than the other. This technology is going to be so
much fun as it gets better and cheaper...
The obligatory picture of Alcatraz. What about
that other bridge, you may ask? Well, I've got a series of 8 pix that I
need to photoshop together. I'll get to it eventually...
We stopped at a camera shop to try to rent a
super-wide lens for Byron's Hasselblad. No such luck, but we did get a
wide lens. Byron and I got so caught up in gadgets that it severely
delayed our heading off to Big Basin. The fact that I was running a
fever didn't help either...
This picture doesn't really do justice to the
sheer size of this thing. You need to look at the next picture...
... which was shot by Byron with the Hasselblad
and developed and printed in his bathroom at home. The scan doesn't
really do justice to the print which looks quite mind-blowing.
And here's Byron halfway along the same tree.
This is the magic of computer enhancement again.
I'm standing inside this tree (along with zillions of spiders).
And here's a zoom out of the same shot...
It's so wide!
My friend!
We took the long way home because I was determined
to get a picture of a Pacific sunset. I took this shot at Half Moon Bay
with literally seconds to spare... Nice!
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