It's not elaborately staged, and she's dressed casually, but this is one of my favorite photos of my mother.
Dad took this picture of Mom with a sculpture of a mother bear and her cubs at the Oakland Museum in 1978.
She left us far too soon, in 1982. Much of what's best about me comes directly from her, and she's a presence in my life every day.
This statue is the work of sculptor Beniamino Bufano.
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Aerial view of Mt. Diablo from the southwest, with city of San Ramon in foreground, August 1983. Image made using Kodak Infrared Ektachrome, a film which differed from conventional color slide film in its sensitivity to infrared wavelengths.
Leica M4, 35mm f2.8 Summaron-M with Leitz medium yellow filter; Leica MR-4 meter set to ASA 100.
For more information, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography#Color_infrared...
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Aerial view of the East Bay hills and San Francisco Bay, August 1983, with the wing of the Cessna 172 at the top of the frame.
The San Mateo - Hayward Bridge is visible on the left side of the frame, and Mt. Tamalpais in Marin County is visible on the right. Image made using Kodak Infrared Ektachrome, a film which differed from conventional color slide film in its sensitivity to infrared wavelengths.
Leica M4, 35mm f2.8 Summaron-M with Leitz medium yellow filter; Leica MR-4 meter set to ASA 100.
For more information, read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared_photography#Color_infrared...
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South San Francisco, or "South City," is not a neighborhood of the City of San Francisco - it is a separate municipality, just north of San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
Nearly all of the land visible in this picture, which I took as our 737 departed SFO for San Diego in March, 1990, is South San Francisco.
Many of the buildings visible around the point of land extending into the Bay are those of the biotechnology company Genentech, Inc. The curved street near the shore is Forbes Blvd. At its end, near the shore and near the center of the picture, it joins what used to be Grandview Avenue, a portion of which has since been renamed "DNA Way."
The land along the shore toward the left side of the picture, with the large, blue tanks, was a facility that extracted magnesium from the sea water in the Bay. That facility was demolished in the early 1990s to make room for Genentech's Founders Research Center.
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Aerial view flying south along San Francisco's Ocean Beach. The large dark area is Golden Gate Park.
In the early 1990s, the same company that made Otis Spunkmeyer cookies operated a pair of DC-3 aircraft for sight-seeing tours of the San Francisco area.
The flights were conducted from the Oakland Airport (OAK). We took one of these sight-seeing flights in May 1994 aboard this DC-3, N97H.
After the tours were discontinued and the aircraft were sold, N97H passed through several owners in California before being sold to its latest owner in Russia. The aircraft now carries the Russian civil registration RA-2059G.
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