On the last visit to San Francisco we had a chance to visit the California Academy of Sciences. What an amazing place! We spent so much time in the Rainforest and the aquarium, that we ran out of time for the Planetarium…DANG! I guess we’ll have to go back. I had seen the Living Roof from across the concourse, while visiting the De Young last year,...
I remember coming to Griffith Park as a kid for weekend pic-nics with my family. Going for a pony ride and riding the wooden horses of the Merry-Go-Round. Sadly, these horses have seen better days. The Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round was built in 1926 by the Spillman Engineering Company (horses carved by Charles I.D. Looff), and was once-upon-a-time, located in Mission Beach, San Diego. The...
Quick shot of the Palace of Fine Arts on the May 2013 full moon. Wish I’d been able to get the moon in the shot. San Francisco, California. Originally constructed to be temporary, as part of the Pananma-Pacific Exposition (1915), Beaux-Arts. It was demolished in 1967 and rebuilt to be a permanent structure. Architects: William Gladstone Merchant; Bernard...
This torii was pretty impressive. It’s on the island of Miyajima, just outside of Hiroshima, Japan. The torii gate symbolically marks the transition from the non-sacred ground into sacred grounds. They identify the entrance into a Shinto shrine. This shot was taken at low tide, so you can see how grand it is in comparison to the tiny people that trekked out...