When we visited San Francisco in 2008, we booked a tour that took us down the Pacific coast with stops in Monterey, Pebble Beach and Carmel. We began by traveling south on Pacific Coast Highway 1. The pictures in this section are some I took of views along the highway. We stopped in Monterey for lunch and had a little time to explore the town. Monterey was once home to a sardine-canning industry. Unfortunately it was over-fished and most of…
While in San Francisco, we booked a sunrise photography tour through Doc Miles Photo Tours. Doc is a professional photographer and also a great teacher. He knew several places that presented the opportunity for photos with intriguing compositions. He explained camera settings and helped me use light to my advantage – and best of all, he assisted as needed (which was quite a bit). If you are interested in a photography tour, you will find more information on his website….
These are some of the other sites we saw while exploring San Francisco. In addition to independent exploring, we also did a walking tour and a sunrise photography tour. This is the Palace of Fine Arts which we saw on our sunrise photography tour. The Palace was originally built in 1915 for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. It is one of the few buildings remaining from the Exposition. It was never meant to last longer than the Exposition so was rebuilt in…
We visited San Francisco in 2008 and just returned from visiting again. We stayed at a hotel near the Embarcadero for both of our visits. Prior to the 1989 earthquake, a double-decker highway, the Embarcadero Freeway, connected the Golden Gate Bridge and Bay Bridge, but it blocked the view of much of the shoreline. There were people opposed to the freeway before it was ever completed and others who liked the convenience it provided. The 1989 earthquake damaged the freeway…