Posts Tagged "Fleet Week"

Fleet week this year was celebrating its 31th year running. Wikipedia article estimates that the event attracts over 1 million people to watch the airshow along the San Francisco bay. This year was no exception. I went as usual on Thursday to photograph the Blue Angels first practice run. The weather was largely overcast and I had some issues with my lens, so I have only a few images from Thursday (the only one which made the cut, has a 25% grey background). But Saturday I went sailing and I got great images, including a F-22 raptor, a stealth bomber (B-2 Spirit Bomber) and images of the Blue Angels with San Francisco in the background. Shooting from a moving boat has made getting a sharp shot a more challenging exercise. Fortunately, the planes are making...

This weekend was probably the busiest weekend in San Francisco in a very long time. At the same time, we had the America’s cup world serie, Fleet week, Castro Street, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Italian Heritage Parade in North Beach,  a playoff between the Giants and the Reds and a football game between the 49ers and the Buffalo. Generally, simply Fleet Week is crazy. This year it was overwhelming, and everyone was in San Francisco. I tried to escape the crowd somehow by getting on the water. The bay was really packed but still manageable. The good news is that the weather was very sunny and it has allowed me to take some new images of San Francisco that I was never able to get before. Sailing the bay is definitely something you should do if you...