San Francisco is an amazing city. Unless you’re looking for a parking spot. I didn’t live in the city, so I didn’t have to endure the sometimes endless search for a place to put my car on a daily basis, but I did go into the city enough to develop a real disdain for driving there.

Fortunately, San Francisco, much like NYC, is a town you can get to, and around in, without a car. And as a photographer who likes to walk, and walk, and walk, well a car only gets in the way. When this was taken, sometime in 2000, I was living in Marin, which is north of the Golden Gate. There are two options for mass transit for getting into S.F. One is the bus, which takes forever, and the other is the ferry. Which is a 45 minute bit of heaven. Awesome views, wind in your face observation decks, warm and toasty inside seating, AND they serve beer and wine.

Suffice to say, I took the ferry. Which is how and why I got this shot. After a day in the city, I was on my way back to catch the boat home, walking up Market Street. The building in the lower left is the clock tower at the Ferry Building, and the spotlights that run up the center originate at The Embarcadero.

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Market Street, San Francisco, 2000.