{"id":2502,"date":"2013-05-16T10:16:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/?p=2502"},"modified":"2013-05-16T10:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T14:35:37","slug":"san-francisco-bay-and-port-of-oakland-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/briansolomon.com\/trackingthelight\/san-francisco-bay-and-port-of-oakland-august-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco Bay and Port of Oakland, August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Working with Wonderful Light in an Infrastructure-Intense Environment<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

San Francisco Bay is famous for its beautiful light; the combination of soft sun with rolling Pacific fog and layers of pollution make for a rich textured golden glow in evening and mellow bright conditions during the height of the day.<\/p>\n

Following my Northern California theme presented over the last few posts to Tracking the Light, I\u2019m offering a few views of San Francisco Bay exposed in August 2009.<\/p>\n

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On August 10, 2009, a loaded Pacific containership catches the glint of the morning sun as it passes San Francisco on its way to the Port of Oakland. Where historically San Francisco served as a primary port, today very little heavy shipping happens in the City itself; most port activities are focused in the East Bay around Oakland. Oakland container traffic represents an important business for both Union Pacific and BNSF. Until 1957, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (seen here in silhouette) carried Key System interurban electric trains, and originally also hosted SP\u2019s red electrics as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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An Amtrak Capitols train passes CP North King Street near Jack London Square in Oakland, California on August 25, 2009. The Port of Oakland makes for a fascinating industrial backdrop. Notice the approaches to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. At the time of this photo, new approaches were under construction to replace the 1930s-era steel-lattice cantilever structure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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On August 24, 2009, the rarely photographed Oakland Terminal Railway navigates former electric line trackage beneath the maze of Interstate highways in Oakland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

These images were exposed on Fujichrome slide film with a Canon EOS 3 and 100-400mm lens.<\/p>\n

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