Astoria (Part 3)

There are a few ships docked in the tourist-accessible part of Astoria harbor, for cruises and historic interest, as well as Coast Guard vessels for rescue operations. The Columbia River Bar pilots require a great deal of skill to guide the large ships across the bar, and quite a few have lost their lives in bad storms.

Astoria (Part 2)

I found the decayed pilings of piers to be photographically evocative, as were the container vessels waiting offshore under a brooding sky. The passage from the Pacific Ocean into the Columbia River is regarded as the most difficult and dangerous in the world.

Astoria, Oregon in B&W

Now for a substantial change in both location and style. A few months ago, a friend and I drove to Astoria, Oregon, about two hours from Portland. It's a historic town, at the mouth of the Columbia River, near where the Lewis and Clark expedition reached the Pacific Ocean. (It's named for John Jacob Astor, who based his fur trade there.)

The weather was cool and overcast, and there's not a lot of color in Astoria in any case, so I decided to photograph using a rather dark monochrome. For the next week or so I'll be posting photos from this trip.

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Puna, Peru, 2010

Varna, Bulgaria, 2013

Kashmir, 2015

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Bihar, India, 2017

Kolkata, 2017

Soweto, 1999

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Addis Ababa, 2014

London, 2014

Paris, 2014

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Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar, 2013

Inle Lake, Myanmar, 2013

Lalibela, Ethiopia, 2014

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Panama City, 2010

Panama, 2011

Xinjiang, China, 2012

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San Francisco, 2010

London, 2010

New York City, 2010

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Peter Turnley asked us to bring some of our best previous photos to his San Francisco street photography workshop, so they could be compared with the photos we took during the workshop. I'll take the opportunity to post 21, three a day, for the next week. They come from all over the world, and from a number of years past.

Naples, 2004

Paris, 2005

Taos, 2006

Yerba Buena Gardens (Part 3)

Across Mission Street, to the north of the central Esplanade of Yerba Buena Gardens, is a block containing, among other things, the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Jessie Square, and the site for the new Mexican Museum. I took a series of photos of the vivid walls shielding the construction site for the Mexican Museum, reflected in the Jessie Square reflection pool.

This ice creamery is on Market Street (not in Yerba Buena Gardens), but I felt that its colors and mood fit with the other photos on this page.

Yerba Buena Gardens (Part 3)

Parts of Yerba Buena Gardens are good for just relaxing or meditating.

Yerba Buena Gardens (Part 2)

Yerba Buena Gardens

On the last full day of the Peter Turnley workshop, he gave us a big list of interesting San Francisco sites, and urged us to explore. I went to Yerba Buena Gardens, not too long a walk from our hotel and a very interesting place, claiming (with some justification) to be "at the heart of the City's cultural district." Over the next few days I'll post some of the images from this diverse park.