RON HENGGELER |
1/18/14
Nighttime photos, and the light of the full moon
These photos were taken on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week.
The night shots were taken on evenings that were exceptionally pleasant.
On Tuesday it was 72º at 8pm in the Marin Headlands when I was photographing the Golden Gate Bridge.
The ascending full moon’s luminous light, and this unusually warm weather, made the Bay Area a magical place to be.
The Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, seen through the ‘eye of a needle’, the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. |
The south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from near the Point Bonita in the Marin Headlands. |
The Golden Gate Bridge just after sunset, seen from Battery Spencer, |
A view of the Gray Whale Cove area, seen from Highway One a mile or two south of Devil’s Slide. |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the second turn-out along the Conzelman Road in the Marin Headlands. |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the second turn-out along the Conzelman Road in the Marin Headlands. |
Looking south along the California Coast from Highway One, a mile or so south of Gray Whale Cove, on the way to San Gregoria Beach. |
The nearly full moon, and the roadway on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from Battery Spencer at the first turn-out along the Conzelman Road in the Marin Headlands. As the moon came up, four or five coyotes high on the hill above us were howling at the moon. |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the trail at Battery Spencer, |
Looking south along the California Coast from Highway One, a mile or so south of Gray Whale Cove, on the way to San Gregoria Beach. |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
The San Francisco City Hall flood-lit gold and red for the San Francisco 49’s. |
Highway One at San Gregoria Beach. |
The Golden Gate Bridge seen with a 300mm lens from high atop Twin Peaks in San Francisco. |
The Sutro Tower illuminated in the full moonlight, seen from Twin Peaks in San Francisco. |
Looking south along the coast, at San Gregoria Beach |
The ascending full moon and the San Francisco City Hall flood-lit gold and red for the San Francisco 49’s. |
Violane, Fleur, and Celine at Battery Spencer overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge |
Looking south along the coast on Highway One near Pomponio Beach |
San Francisco’s City Hall, flood-lit gold and red for the San Francisco 49’s. |
The fast-moving traffic on the roadway passing through the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, viewed from Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
Looking south along the California coast at Pescadero Beach on Highway One |
A close-up of the top of the Sutro Tower illuminated in the full moonlight, seen with a 300mm lens from Twin Peaks in San Francisco. |
At dusk, looking south along the California coast at Pescadero Beach on Highway One |
The Golden Gate Bridge seen from the edge of the coastal cliff at from Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
The Golden Gate Bridge seen from the edge of the coastal cliff at from Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
‘Hauled-out’ California Sea Lions at Pescadero Beach on Highway One, south of Half Moon Bay |
A close-up of the top of the Sutro Tower illuminated in the full moonlight, seen with a 300mm lens from Twin Peaks in San Francisco. |
The top of the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, seen with a 300mm lens from the edge of the coastal cliff at from Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
Market Street in San Francisco seen from Twin Peaks |
A tide pool at Pescadero Beach on Highway One, south of Half Moon Bay |
The San Francisco City Hall flood-lit gold and red for the San Francisco 49’s. |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the trail at Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the trail at Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
The ascending full moon and the San Francisco City Hall flood-lit gold and red for the San Francisco 49’s. |
A surfer riding the waves at Pescadero Beach on Highway One, south of Half Moon Bay and San Gregoria |
San Francisco and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge seen from Twin Peaks |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the trail at Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
San Francisco and the distant East Bay illuminated in the full moonlight, seen from Twin Peaks |
The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge viewed from the ruins of World War Two bunkers at Battery Spencer in the Marin Headlands. |
A view looking north along the coast towards Half Moon Bay seen from San Gregoria Beach |
San Francisco, Market Street, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge seen from Twin Peaks |
Surfer Todd riding the waves at Pescadero Beach on Highway One, south of Half Moon Bay and San Gregoria |
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