Category: america’s cup

THERE IS ALOT GOING ON

Just going to see the America’s Cup event yesterday was a full event. If I pause to think of all the layers and parallel lives occurring simultaneously, I marvel that large cities can function at all. Where Market Street meets the Embarcadero the best dressed and the worst dressed are side by side. The homeless, the occupiers, who at first glance look homeless. It took me a moment to understand why the Federal Reserve  was blockaded. Gabriel Angelo looking natty hoping for fame.A few blocks down the America’s Cup teams have a staging area where the real work is done. Marina Green is for show. The teams spend as little time as possible there. I have the sense that at the Green they really do feel like circus performers and they are not so sure they like the thought.

Then of course the weather in San Francisco changes the landscape at every moment of the day.

 

ANOTHER LOOK AT YESTERDAY

The forecast for today is for more wind. It could be exciting. As you might see there is a camera arms race on. This is BIG glass as they say. Canon is making their presence known. You can borrow this equipment for the week. I happen to shoot Nikon.Where are they?  Next to this equipment is it easy to feel inadequate. It is a good thing I am comfortable in my own skin.

TUESDAY AUGUST 21, 2012 IN SAN FRANCISCO

The Golden Gate Bridge never fully appeared, but the show went on anyway. Lots of boats and lots of capsizes. The breeze out of the West at about 15 knots. The wind and tide were flowing in the same direction during racing , so the water was flat. The racing was close to the Green. I think, having seen the racing, here and in Newport, that in fact, the viewing was better in Newport.