Jeremy Brooks

Golden Gate Fields is in Berkeley, next door to Richmond, so that’s close enough for me to say this is my shot for this week of the 2008 Challenge.

Sunset over San Francisco, as seen from a railroad yard in Oakland.

Sunset over San Francisco, as seen from Oakland. Both spans of the Bay Bridge are visible.

Just testing a trackback on another blog:

http://www.scribkin.com/2008/06/18/trackback-this/

If you are around San Francisco, don’t miss the Dale Chihuly exhibit at the de Young museum. The de Young is a photo-friendly museum, and they are allowing photos (no flash) in this exhibit.

You can see all my shots from the exhibit here. There are more to come, so check back if you like what you see in the set.

Week 24 of the 2008 Challenge.
Sited at the former Kaiser Shipyard No. 2, the memorial evokes the act of constructing the ships with mass-assembly techniques adopted by Kaiser to make ships in Richmond more quickly, and the process of reconstructing memories of women who worked on the home front.
The principal component is a walkway, the length of a ship’s keel, which slopes toward the San Francisco Bay and aligns with the Golden Gate Bridge.
The path is inscribed with a timeline about the home front and quotes from women workers sandblasted into white granite. Sculptural elements of stainless steel encountered on the walkway are drawn from ship’s blueprints and suggest the unfinished forms of hull, stack and stern under construction.

This is a tagcloud of all the tags on my photos over at Flickr. Rev Dan threw together a very cool hack that lets you extract your tags, which you can then post into the creator at wordle.net.