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This is news to me, but Wikipedia says that San Francisco Bay is thought to be a "down-warping" of the Earth's crust between the San Andreas Fault to the west and the Hayward Fault to the east.
During the last ice age, the basin now filled by the bay was a large linear valley with small hills, similar to most of the valleys of the Coast Ranges. The rivers of the Central Valley ran out to sea through a canyon that is now the Golden Gate. As the great ice sheets melted, sea level rose 300 feet (91 m) over 4,000 years, and the valley filled with water from the Pacific, becoming a bay. The small hills became islands. Source: Wikipedia
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The "holy grail" of a San Francisco skyline shot is getting a good sharp focus on the Ghirardelli sign all the way across the bay. Hand-held--no tripod!
f2.8 at 1/50sec, ISO-100, 200mm with Canon 70-200 f2.8 "L" II I.S. zoom.
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Wide view from my favorite viewing area at Point Cavallo near Fort Baker.
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Sunrise! and it can be quite a show of light and color in the several minutes before the actual ball-of-fire arrives. Sunrise always seems to be to be a much more grand event than a fading sunset at the other end of the day.
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