Below are 20 of my favourite photographs taken on various trips to the City by the Bay over the past decade. You can view a much larger image just by clicking once on the picture.
Raging Pacific
Golden Gate Bridge from Marin Headlands
Sutro Baths and the Cliff House 
Hyde Street – Cable Car and Pier
Haight-Ashbury
Ferry Building on the Embarcadero
Cable car cresting Nob Hill
Alamo Square – Painted Ladies
Palace of Fine Arts
Seal Rock
City Hall
de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park
Aquatic Park and Hyde Street Pier
Conservatory of Flowers in Golden Gate Park
under the Golden Gate Bridge
Alcatraz – Exercise Yard
Mission Dolores
AT & T Park – home of the World Champions
Palace of Fine Arts and the Bay
Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park
Aaah, the painted ladies. Beautiful old ‘Victorian’ (why on earth do the Americans happily adopt ‘Victorian’ as a descriptive term for a period when the British monarch had long given up any attempt to rule the colonies? America certainly didn’t have a president Victoria, that’s for sure; and they revolted long before then, so why don’t they mark their eras with things that are apposite to America? Oh yes, I suppose Americans do refer to the depression era and the prohibitioin years. But perhaps that gives us the answer – don’t sound very glamorous, do they?)
But there are those beautiful old Victorian wooden houses still surviving after fires and earthquakes have ravished the city, lovingly maintained by some pretty zealous homeowners with adquate funds. I still have the photo I took of them almost 30 years ago across a neat park which reminded me of a genteel London square, whilst a police siren wailed and two officers spreadeagled a man against the side of their car.
I think I need to go back to San Francisco.