Record store mural, Berkeley, CA

Complex historical mural on the side of a record store on Telegraph.

Avoiding going down the drain, Berkeley, CA

This mural I truly loved, each day I walked by it, watching the uncomfortable suited man attempt to avoid going down the drain.

Municipal bong, Berkeley, CA

And of course the Telegraph mural includes an industrial-scale municipal bong. Why would you even think it might be otherwise?

Icons of Telegraph, Berkeley, CA

An iconography of the self-perception of Telegraph in Berkeley, presented in a mural by one of its cross-streets.

Apartment birds, Berkeley, CA

Birds protruding from the side of this apartment building, the artist's signature itself raised from the surface in the lower right.

Musicians breaking through, Berkeley, CA

Musicians breaking through the walls that hold them back.

Art bike, Berkeley, CA

Beautifully plus red-and-blue art bike parked in downtown Berkeley.

Organic unicorn, Berkeley, CA

100% natural USDA-approved organic unicorn.

Delivery robots, Berkeley, CA

Downtown Berkeley is filled with these little delivery robots, navigating their way through traffic filled with people's lunch orders, and signaling another endangered service industry job.

Art actuators, Berkeley, CA

Small motors actuating the motions of an active mobile in a Berkeley meeting center.

City Hall, San Francisco, CA

Stately and strangely out-of-place feeling in its lack of crowding, San Francisco's City Hall.

3 Kinds Carnation Mush, San Francisco, CA

Old fading advertisement, back from the era in which you could advertising something as "mush" and still have people want to eat it.

Sidewalk lace, San Francisco, CA

Thin white pattern of lace on the concrete sidewalk.

Those we love don't go away, San Francisco, CA

A poem on loss, found on the sidewalk near a hip convention center.

Tenderloin People's Garden, San Francisco, CA

The beautiful hippie imagery of the Tenderloin People's Garden contrast's harshly with the economic Darwinism afflicting downtown San Francisco that it is attempting to ameliorate.

Wise old eyes, San Francisco, CA

Wise eyes above the Arriba Juntos community center in San Francisco's Mission District.

Dissolving face, San Francisco, CA

Flowers and a face dissolving on this mural.

Second by second, San Francisco, CA

Poetry drives this beautiful Mission District mural.

Pointing dude, San Francisco, CA

Another very cool graffiti person in the Mission District.

Fast booty, San Francisco, CA

Fast and curvy graffiti mural in San Francisco's Mission District.

Roof Portal, San Francisco, CA

View of the sky upward from a convention building in San Francisco.

Low-lying clouds near SFO

Cloud resting thickly over the hills above the San Francisco airport.

Foster City Islands, CA

Another batch of densely settled artificial islands with interesting forms, just before landing at SFO.

Foster City Islands, CA

Perfectly sausage-shaped artificial islands just outside of San Francisco airport.

Circle clusters, Foster City, CA

Another heavily geometric building, this one a cluster of low nested cylinders.

Beehive building, Foster City, CA

Hexagonal structures make this building feel like a beehive to me.

Power lines, San Francisco Bay

Two sets of power line towers, nearly connecting together through their outstretched shadows in the early morning light.

Power lines, San Francisco Bay

High-voltage power line towers, standing in a lacy cluster high above the salt marshes of San Francisco Bay.

Blair Island channels, San Francisco Bay

One more shot of the intricacies binding water and land together around Blair Inland.

Blair Island channels, San Francisco Bay

Another complex mix of lines and curves in the channels off Blair Island.

Blair Island channels, San Francisco Bay

Light and dark in the complex patterns of tidal flats and dredging around Blair Island off the shores of Redwood City.

Love sprocket, Ghent, Belgium

A momentary pause in our flight for Valentine's Day, in which to appreciate this loving rusted whatsit from the side of a canal in Belgium.

Working the salt flats, San Francisco Bay

Some of the San Francisco Bay salt flats are under restoration, while others are still working industrial sites. Here we see one such, with construction equipment working back and forth across the flats to collect the dense results of evaporation accumulated there.

San Francisco Bay Salt Flats

Another boundary between straight lines and curves in strong unnatural-seeming colors.

San Francisco Bay Salt Flats

Ragged-edged curve of orange brown on the border between two control zones in the flats.

San Francisco Bay Salt Flats

A sinuous red-brown curve through the salt flats.

San Francisco Bay Salt Flats

More of the mix of natural windings and straight manmade cuts in the archaea-driven edges of browns and oranges.

San Francisco Bay Salt Flats

Another set of colorful salt flats, these on the West side of the Bay near Palo Alto.

Mystery structures near Dunbarton Bridge, San Francisco Bay

I have no idea what these structures are: they are clearly man-made protrusions up from the tidal flats beside the Dunbarton Bridge. They appear to be concrete, and are all aligned in a way that looks hydrodynamic, but I can't figure out what they are or find any reference online.

Dumbarton Bridge, San Francisco Bay

The Dumbarton Bridge cuts across various well-constrained and colored patches of San Francisco Bay.

Algae pond, Palo Alto, CA

Deep green algae pond by the packed flow on Highway 101 in Palo Alto.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

One more shot of lite and dark geometries in the Southern bay salt ponds.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Coming to the end of the salt ponds, shining channels in the marshes.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Slices of dividing barriers in the colors of the salt ponds.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

More beautiful and striking salt pond colors and patterns.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

More intense and unusual microbially-driven water colors in the salt ponds.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Extremophile bacteria and archaea make intense red coloring in some parts of the salt ponds.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Layers of channels through the dividing lines of the salt ponds.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Crisp lined fractal patterns in the salt ponds.

San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds

Stark whites in the San Francisco salt ponds.