Chinese New Year
April 11th, 2005
Winter, 1998. 35mm. Can’t remember if it was cross processed or not.
Taken on my fact finding trip to San Francisco to determine if I had what it takes to make it in the city and what rent was going to be like. It was crazy. I was very fortunate to have great friends to host me and help me make the move. I also remember being very cold.
April 11th, 2005 at 8:11 am
Something so cool about light streaks. I took some very cool fireworks photos last year. My Nikon actually has a FIREWORKS setting It’s very odd
April 11th, 2005 at 9:12 am
I froze my behind off while living in San Francisco. We were only there for six months and decided to head back to NYC, but man, I will remember being cold forever. The only time we had been there before actually moving there, was during that one freakish week last May (we were apartment hunting) and it happen to be 90 degrees. The natives are still talking about that week. hehe. We were fooled! Fooled, I tell ya! It is not warm in San Francisco! It is cold and windy! But man is she ever pretty.
April 11th, 2005 at 11:48 am
I’m actually moving to South Bay/North Silicon Valley at the end of this month.
I’m looking forward to outrageous living costs.
April 11th, 2005 at 11:55 am
i will forever misunderstand those who claim San Francisco to be so damn cold. Perhaps it’s all in the way you were ‘introduced’ to the 7X7. It’s all about being prepared. There are no less then 12 microclimates in SF proper, and if you simply prepare for both ends, you allow yourself to remove the negative connotations from ‘the cold’, ‘the wind’ and ‘the unpredictable’. Where its a grey blustery 56 in say Cow Hollow, it will be a sunny and calm 76 in the shelter of Financial. When it’s a huge sunny gorgeous out my deck in Marin, i still verify the conditions in the city before i go on an adventure.
I just hate to hear people cite the weather as such a negative about this place. Unlike the ‘natives’ (i’m from AZ), i trully *WANT* people to enjoy enough of this place on visits that they re-locate here. This place has been ebbing strong people for too long. The brackish pool of vapid pastey-willed souls left here is odd.
but i digress.
this place rocks and the weather is one of the crowning factors in that statement. the weather here undulates like a lava-lamp: patterns, yes.. but wonderfully unpredictable ones.
April 11th, 2005 at 1:16 pm
I think we were there during what the locals call “mono-season.” The weather was exactly the same every single day. It was foggy, windy and cold where we lived. Downtown, where I worked, would be sunny but it was still a wee bit chilly. While we were there, the weather didn’t change at all. It was mind-numbingly predictable, actually.
Like I said, seannarae, we were only there for six months. And those six months were exactly the same, weather-wise. And that was hard for an East coast person to get used to. Everything I had grown accustomed to weather-wise over the 31 years I’ve been alive was totally not the case out in SF. That’s not to say she ain’t pretty and perfect. I guess I like the schizophrenic weather we have back east. :] I remember really missing thunderstorms. But man was that fog ever spectacular!
April 11th, 2005 at 1:17 pm
utah native moving to san francisco in three weeks. i love the weather there, you just have to master the art of layering. i don’t understand how anybody living here in salt lake for the last few weeks can complain about bizarre weather patterns. utah weather is predictably unpredictable, even more so than the bay area.
April 12th, 2005 at 8:10 am
Blurb, this picture is so gorgeous. It is so beautiful I want to eat it. I LOVE IT.
April 12th, 2005 at 5:40 pm
Chanel Baby, are we suffering from a case of PICA? Perhaps you need to go and eat some real food, like chocolate, or cotton candy, pictures should not be eaten my dear.
April 13th, 2005 at 12:22 pm
http://tinyurl.com/6g5aq
an interesting read about a re-loaction from New York to San Francisco. Which by the time you get into it, reveals more of a story about the original move to New York.