
Wooden House, Telegraph Hill

Downtown
Just back from a too short a trip to San Francisco. Had a few days of just wandering the city and taking pictures - a real treat. Henry Wessel said that he moved from the east coast of the USA to California just because of the light. It's true. Coming from the greyness of western Scotland the light in San Francisco appears to have an amazing clarity and photographs that would look flat and dull at home have real pop about them. If I could move there like Henry I would. For some reason it is also a place for black and white photography; in colour you just don't have the same sense of place.



