Photos: San Francisco Bay Area 1999-2002

Sometimes I see things around San Francisco that need to be photographed. There are a lot of interesting things to see; some perhaps unbelievable. A good photographer can have trouble keeping up. I'm not a good photographer, so I just try to document the things that I think other people are missing.

	I saw this truck in the Potrero Hill neighborhood. It must be art
	Handless mannequin facing razor wire, Pier warehouse
	Graffiti wall, China Basin railyard
	mossy wall, a pipe, a fence, and a hillock at the end of 20th Street
	Some cranes at the end of 20th Street
	The Hudson's gantry, Mission Rock Terminal. I think the Hudson carries automobiles.
	Abandoned piers, S. China Basin
	The tall ship Europa, in town for the 2002 Sail San Francisco festival.
	At an intermodal shipping center like the Port of Oakland, you need an efficient way to store lots of flat truck trailers. This is a photo of a structure that looks something like a big ski/snowboard rack. Really big. Perhaps the snowboard rack of the gods.
	Cargo-manipulating devices. Someone told me that these inspired the design of the At-At walkers in the "Star Wars" movies.
	Stairs, pipes; in background, a door into empty space, all part of the mysterious areas behind UCSF's Parnassus campus.
	Stairs meeting at odd angles; fans and filters. This area behind UCSF has been renovated, and now the stairs are even stranger than this photo suggests.
	UCSF has no shortage of interesting Industrial containers
	Statue at the School of Nursing
	Smokestacks
	View of Baker Beach from Coastal Trail
	Rolling golden hills of manure and mulch
	Old gun battery
	Clearly-labelled log cabin
	Lush growth
	Low, vine-covered wall, palm trees
	Mysterious gears
	All Kinds of Grease
	Climb in case of fire
	All Kinds of Wrenches
	One night I worked very late. I barely caught the last train back to San Francisco from Berkeley. I'd missed the last streetcar from the train station to my home, so I decided to walk back rather than bother with the bus.
	As I was walking along the street, I found a utility box sitting open. Looking inside, I saw wiring and boxes, but I couldn't really focus. I'd been working very late and my vision was blurry.
	Still, I was curious to know what I was looking at, so I took a bunch of pictures. They turned out well enough such that, after I'd rested and got the pictures developed, I was able to tell that I'd been looking at a controller for some crossing lights.

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