The Legion of Honor looks like Paris at Night.

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Disembarking Ship, San Francisco Bay at Sunset.

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Early Morning before the lights go down on the San Francisco Bay.

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The newly remodeled Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park with Alcatraz and Angel Island Behind. The museum should be re-opening soon.

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Who us?

Pregnant
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Here comes the sun.

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Shadow Play.

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Aerial Palace of Fine Arts with the New Lucas Arts building on the Presidio in the background.

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San Francisco Hospitality at the Newly Renovated San Francisco Hilton Lobby near Chinatown.

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Good morning SF Bay.

Sunrise behind Angel Island, San Francisco Bay.
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Got to protect from those barbarians at the Gate.

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Cascade Waterfall, Mill Valley after rain.

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Red Sky at morning, Sailors Take Warning.
Red Sky at night, Sailors Delight

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The Transamerica Tower sure looks different from the ground.

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Incoming.

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Aerial San Francisco from the South Side of the City during the Allstar Games, The China Building, South Beach Marina Summer 2007.
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Sometimes a single image can evoke a peaceful feeling and remind you of lost days of summers aimless hours. For me it also goes in hand with remember loss days of youth where we summered and the days were filled with cousins, beaches and boats, and moms preparing picnics and parties. Hope this works for you too.


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Dances with Whales - The Humpback whale is nicknamed the Ballerina of the Sea. This is more like a modern dance. Below is a video taken with a hand held camera on board while we were shooting a nature documentary in HD with a makohead stabilizer. We were in the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary, near the continental shelf.
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Almost Fits - I was working on recreating an aerial photograph from a balloon taken in 1906, and this was one of the first mock-ups. Of course the final product was more professional, but I always liked this mock up. Almost a perfect fit. Sometimes almost a perfect fit looks more interesting. The perfect fit, the final for my client, was actually a cosmetic make over with photoshop and multiple images composited. Artificial. I liked the almost perfect fit better.

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Handsome young buck peeing as he strikes a handsome pose. This stikes me as visual perfect of the young male attitude. Yes, I can. No, I wont. You are not the boss of me. I know I am drop dead gorgeous, or at least my Mother told me I was. Deal with it. What do you mean you want me to behave?

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Early morning tug navigates the San Francisco Bay in the fog. There is nothing diminutive about the Tug Boat. It is the backbone of the San Francisco Bay. The guide that brings the ships in over the "bar" outside the gate. The "bar" is very shallow at points and is quite literally a sand bar that has collected from silt and other sediments flowing out the Golden Gate. In days of yore (before the GPS) entering the San Francisco Bay was a precarious endeavor. The Tugboats knew the lay of the ocean floor, the waters, currents and tides. They could guide an incoming ship laden with valuable cargo safely.

Of course, not to be overlooked, is the Potatoe Patch right outside the North side of the mouth of the San Francisco Bay near Point Bonita. Early navigators were heard to have downed a few shots of whiskey before navigating through the Potatoe Patch. The Potatoe Patch supposedly got its name in either of the following two ways: 1) The waters were so rough it made boats laden with potatoes heading for Sacremento spill their load. or 2)The waters get so frothed up in the winter the foam looks like mashed Potatoes. I have seen the latter at about four feet thick.
Of course if you know the tides, you can figure out what time of day the waters will lay down at Point Bonita.

There is nothing small about the tugboat. I have always seen the tugs as sort of bulldog tough with their thick rubber exterior. I guess if you compare it to the size of a Cargo Ship, a Cruise Ship or a Tanker it might seem small, but those vessels are lumbering giants, slow to start, and once in motion slow to stop, turns on football field (as compared to turning on a dime), not sleek and lean agile hydro machines.

Not being a local born and raised here, a recent transplant arriving in 1985, I was surprised to learn being a Tugboat Captain is a great and high paying job. It is a job passed down from generation to generation with the knowledge of the Sea. They refer to themselves as being in the lucky sperm club.

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Blue Angels Video Narrated by Fred Patton, ex pilot explains the maneuvers. Video by SF Bay Digital Images SFBayImages.com

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Check their website for updates on the 2008 Parade of Ships, Air Shows, Event Schedules and more.


Chairman's Greeting


Since 1981, San Francisco Fleet Week has been an annual opportunity for Northern Californians to honor the men and women serving in the United States Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps. This year we are fortunate to have increased participation from the Coast Guard and the Canadian Navy. In so doing, we expand the scope of Fleet Week internationally as well as across the armed services.


Please help me make our visitors feel welcome and assist me in thanking them for serving in the military and for the remarkable contribution they are making to our security and well being.



Edward M. Leonard

Chairman, San Francisco Fleet Week Committee

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The fog horns in the distance at night has always been a quintesential favorite that sounds like home.

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Signs of fall. Young Buck checking me out, early one morning up on the headlands while I was stalking sunrise.

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Happy Halloween San Francisco.

Sunrise over San Francisco
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Harvest Moon Rising over Alcatraz on an October Night, giving a Halloween feeling to the Bay.

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Magic Sunset over the Potatoe Patch, the infamous waters that have wreeked havoc to mariner since the San Francisco Bay was discovered, flat for a cruise past Point Bonita Lighthouse on the Five Stars Yacht. A gracious gift. Ocotber 26, 2007

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Sometimes there is just unexplainable magic in the air.

Sunrise San Francisco Bay, October 25, 2007.

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Lions Mane Jellies Pulse Dance in a deep cobalt blue tank at the Jellyfish as Art Exhibit at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This exhibit displays moon jellies, hat box, and many other exotic jellyfish, even some that have LCD like displays.

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Sunset over the Pacific Ocean, to the west out beyond the Golden Gate Bridge, October 2007. The light guiding now, on Alcatraz, the oldest Lighthouse on the West Coast. Somethings never change.


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Rolex Big Boat Series. Ok. So this is a delayed reaction and the video is a bit of an after thought, but none the less here is a small video from the Big Boat Series 2007, one of the largest annual sailing events on the San Francisco Bay. Sailors, Races, Boats and crew come from all over the world to participate in this sailing regatta. I personally consider this a moveable iconic landmark on the San Francisco Bay. Please enjoy this little video.

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SQUARED

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Bolinas Lagoon as Art looking Very Western.
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Bolinas Lagoon is a tidal estuary, approximately 3 square miles (8 square km) in area, in the West Marin area of Marin County in California in the United States. It is a part of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary. The lagoon is a back bay of Bolinas Bay on the Pacific coast approximately 15 mi (25 km) northwest of San Francisco. The trough in which the lagoon sits was formed by the San Andreas Fault which runs directly through it. The lagoon is fed by several small streams and separated from the main bay by a small spit of land, known as Stinson Beach. The sand bar that encloses this lagoon is full of beachgoers and surfers on hot days, seeking to escape both heat and the urban Bay Area.

Bolinas Lagoon is on the list of wetlands of international importance as defined by the Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands.
The lagoon is considered to be among the possible landing spots of Francis Drake on the coast of North America in 1579.

The lagoon certainly mirrors the clouds at sunset like fire on a mirror. (See Photo Below.)

October 19, 2007 - On this day in 1985, the first Blockbuster Video store opened in Dallas, Texas. In 1954, Herbert Tichy, Joseph Jöchler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama made the first ascent of Cho Oyu, the world's 6th highest mountain. In 1943, researchers at Rutgers University isolated Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis. In 1917, Love Field opened in Dallas, Texas. And in 1469, Ferdinand II of Aragon married Isabella of Castile, paving the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain. Happy Birthday Chris Kattan (1970), Trey Parker (1969), Jon Favreau (1966), Evander Holyfield (1962), John Lithgow (1945) and Robert Reed (1932 - 1992).

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Point Reyes in Black and White at Sunset, a state of mind.

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Turning Leaf, Healdsburg Wine Country, Northern California.

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I love the morning commute around here. Everytime I cross the Golden Gate Bridge I am always struck with Awe.

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Nothing like a boat ride on the San Francisco Bay.

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Blue Angels Airshow San Francisco Bay Fleetweek 2007

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San Francisco Classic Fog, Golden Gate Bridge Poking up through a thick layer.

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Let your mind drift. The sky is the limit.

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Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, todays is a gift, that is why they call it present. Someone told me that today, I liked it.

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I have always been a moon stalker. This past year my photography friend Fred Larson, photographer extraordanaire from the SF Chronicle, showed me how to finesse my shooting the moon skills. Having always enjoyed a good game, I found shooting the moon has many ins and outs. Sometimes the moon does not show up, sometimes it is not in the right place, sometimes if you get distracted by another photo op you miss the show.

With it being October and the night creeping into our day, I thought this a fine time to start debuting some night photography I have been working on.

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Strange looking bird. This is the new Airbus A380.

They're Here! The Blue Angels are buzzing over our beautiful San Francisco Bay. You can enjoy them from almost anywhere on the SF Bay.

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Join SF BAY ADVENTURES BLUE ANGELS CRUISE aboard the 90' Luxury Yacht "Empress" For a memorable afternoon on the
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Bring your friends, family and co-workers for a day on the Bay.

October 6

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Fleet Week events
Events taking place through Tuesday for Fleet Week in San Francisco.

Today


-- Noon to 3:30 p.m. - Blue Angels survey flights


Friday


-- 1 p.m. - Blue Angels practice

-- 3 p.m. - Blue Angels practice

Saturday


-- Noon to 1 p.m. - Parade of U.S. and Canadian Navy ships.

-- 1 p.m.- Air show begins

-- 3 p.m. - Blue Angels perform

Sunday


-- Noon to 4 p.m. -- Ship tours

-- 1 p.m. - Air show begins

-- 3 p.m. - Blue Angels perform

Monday and Tuesday


-- 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. - Ship tours

Bryce Canyon in an afternoon Storm.

Sorry about the week lag. We went off to Canyonlands Utah on a bit of an adventure.


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