Re: San Francisco

[Gavin Wrigley <minty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert Lynch sent an email on 26/5/00 5:17 am and had this to say:

>>Annual photo trip is planned to San Francisco.  Can anyone recommend some 
>>good sites to shoot in IR?
>
>I plan on trying the Palace of Fine Arts and Muir Woods, but this will only
>be my second trip to SF.

Just returned from a trip to SF and San Jose . . . . .

Aim for Route 1, Ocean Drive I think they call it, or Cabrillio Highway, 
can't remember now, its the most stunning drive I've ever taken, just 
watch out for sea mist, I was there last Saturday and it was cold, right 
from Half Moon Bay to just north of Big Basin Redwood City, I've got some 
IR pics waiting to be processed from around there.  Carry on down further 
south to Monterey and Carmel, some great locations around there,  17 Mile 
Drive just south of Carmel is worth the $7.50 to drive around it, some 
wonderful coastal locations and some magnificent buildings too, once 
you've done that another drive down to Big Sur recommended by Andy Finney
 and definitely by me now!  As mentioned before, Redwoods are stunning to 
look at but cut out way too much light, 100ASA film in the camera and I 
easily managed a 10sec f11 exposure without filters at 5:00pm on a sunny 
day!   Although I found some stunning scenery while driving on the 
interstates, mainly on I17, if you come off the roads and just drive 
around you'll find all sorts of wonderful views, the Old Santa Cruz 
Highway is worth driving down, as mentioned before route 9 too, if 
driving south take 280, not 101, its a much better route to drive down, 
the Vista Point turn off will take you to route 35, another one worth 
driving along to look for spectacular scenery!

Closer to SF, well closer to San Jose,  aim for Los Gatos and take route 
9 to Boulder Creek, its the kind of place the time forgot, the newest 
building seems to date from the 60's, worth looking around, all sorts of 
potential, just south of Boulder Creek there's an old old car sat on the 
side of the road, I've no idea what model it is but definitely dates from 
the 20's!


>Actually, I was just about to post my own SF question.  I will be there for
>a business trip about 10 days from now.  I plan on packing light.  Can
>anyone recommend a well stocked photo store in the dowtown area (preferably
>near Union Square/financial district/Moscone Center) where I can get HIE
>and any thing else I might decide to use depending on the weather and time
>constraints?

Calumet in downtown SF, already mentioned, I've no idea how to get to it, 
but their website does have directions.  I ended up at Keeble and Shuchat 
in California Ave, Palo Alto, which in my opinion is an excellent store, 
they even had what looked like the full range of Wratten filters in 
stock, including the 87C that I bought there.

TTFN
Gavin


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