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Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, SF Mission: ¡Vamos Gigantes!

In 2007, a local artists’ group from the city’s Mission District, Precita Eyes Muralists, completed this mural to cheer on the city’s Giants (Gigantes) and honour the long-standing presence of baseball in San Francisco, and to recognize how the city’s deep roots in baseball goes back to the 1920s and 1930s when the Pacific Coast League team Mission Reds played their home games in former Seals Stadium in the district at the corner of 16th Street and Bryant Street.

“Todos somos creados iguales, solo algunos crecemos a ser Gigantes.”
(All of us are created equal, but some grow up to be Giants.)

I made the images above with an iPhone15 on 19 Dec 2024. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-wiF.

Balmy Street Murals, Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, SF Mission: “Mission Makeover”

“Mission Makeover“, by Lucia Gonzalez Ippolito and her father Tirso Araiza, painted originally in 2012 and restored in 2022. This mural is one of many featured in the Balmy Street Murals on Balmy Street between 24th and 25th Streets in San Francisco’s vibrant and culturally diverse Mission District.

I made the images above on 1 Nov 2024 with an iPhone15. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-wlx.

Cypress Street Murals, Mission District, San Francisco, California, USA, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, SF Mission: “Mission Love 2.0”

At the corner of 24th Street and Cypress Street is the 2023 mural “Mission Love 2.0” by Josué Rojas with Anthony Jimenez. From 24th Street, this mural is a lead-off to a stretch of murals on Cypress Street between 24th and 25th Streets. Prominent is the date 1989 October 17 for the 6.9 magnitude earthquake whose epicenter was near Mt. Loma Prieta in the Santa Cruz area.

I made the image above on 1 Nov 2024 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime with the following settings: 1/125-sec, f/9, ISO1000, and focal length 18.5mm (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-wiF.

Schwarz Rot Gold, Gerhard Richter, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Deutschland, Germany, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday: Tag der deutschen Einheit

After the fall of the Wall in November 1989, voices grew louder for quick reunification, for both capital city and country. In under one year, not only did the two Berlins become one, the former West and East Germany nations reunited to form a single Germany, made official in a grand ceremony on 3 October 1990. Annually, the federal government of Germany observes October 3 as Tag der deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity) and as gesetzlicher Feiertag (federal statutory holiday).

Shown here is the 1999 artwork “Schwarz, Rot, Gold” (Black, Red, Gold) by German artist Gerhard Richter, on display within the exhibition “Gerhard Richter: 100 Works for Berlin” at Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie. Consisting of synthetic resin paint on glass, this smaller version of Richter’s original art piece refers to the much larger version he created for the entrance hall of the German Reichstag building to indicate at the time new beginnings for both Germany and its Bundestag federal parliament.

I made the image above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 22 May 2025 with the following settings: 1/60-sec, f/4, ISO2000, 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-whL.

Helgoland, Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Düne, Nordsee, North Sea, Germany, Deutschland, fotoeins.com

Fotoeins Friday, Helgoland: Helgoländer Felssockel marine reserve

It’s overcast with light “mizzle” (mist-drizzle), but the winds are relatively light and the water chop reasonable. Not only are these are the waters of the North Sea just off Helgoland island, but this is also the Helgoländer Felssockel marine nature reserve, designated and established in 1981. The reserve does not include Helgoland nor the Düne islet. In the background at centre are the two tall remaining rock formations: “Kurze Anna” (Little Anna) and “Lange Anna” (Tall Anna).

I made the image above with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime on 25 May 2024 with the following settings: 1/500-sec, f/11, ISO1000, 18.5mm focal length (28mm full-frame equivalent). This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-w95.