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Quarry Lakes Regional Recreation Area
2012.12.09

A 20-minute walk from Fremont BART Station gets us to this secluded park featuring a series of small lakes (once gravel quarries) and creeks at the west end of Niles Canyon. We enter at the southern end by crossing Alameda Creek, which runs from Niles Canyon to the Bay. Gravel from these quarries was used to lay tracks for the Transcontinental Railroad.





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Modern suburban planned developments ring the southern edge of the park















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Etched into the hills is “Niles”, one of the five independent towns that were eventually incorporated to form Fremont in the 1950s. The Altamont Commuter Express, a commuter railway, cuts through Niles Canyon connecting Pleasanton and Livermore to the East Bay and San Jose. The train begins way out beyond the Altamont Pass in Stockton in the San Joaquin Valley. Unlike the newer parts of Fremont, Niles is an old railroad town, at the junction of three Union Pacific (ex-Southern Pacific) subdivisions (Oakland, Niles, and Warm Springs)… You can frequently hear the distant horns of freight and passenger (Capitol Corridor and ACE) trains. The tracks at bottom here, comprising the UP Oakland Sub and BART, run along the northern edge of the park. In the past, Niles also had a booming motion picture industry, and Charlie Chaplin would film many scenes here.



It wasn’t spring, but the rolling hills were blanketed in green… This doesn’t quite feel like the Bay Area.





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Just fantastic thread quashlo! Beautiful shots showing the great variety here, could easily be a Bay Area welcome guide book!
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Thanks for the comment.
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Corona Heights Park
2013.01.12

Corona Heights is a micro-neighborhood in the hilly area immediately north of The Castro. It’s bordered on the north by Buena Vista, on the east by Duboce Triangle, on the west by Ashbury Heights, and on the south by The Castro and Eureka Valley. The area’s defining feature is Corona Heights Park, a rocky outcrop that offers some nice views and serves as home to the Randall Museum, a small, nature museum for city kids. The views aren’t quite as nice as Twin Peaks, but it’s far more accessible, with the entrance only a couple blocks away from Castro / Market.

We start off facing east…



Mission Bay South in the distance











Some of the buildings along the southern face of Buena Vista Park…



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In the distance is AT&T Park (home of the Giants) and Mission Bay North, with Downtown Oakland across the Bay.





The much-maligned Central Freeway swings in from the left. This portion remains, although the parts north of Market have been replaced by Octavia Boulevard. A bit further out is the high aerial structure of I-280. Proposals were recently announced to bring that section of freeway down.



16th Street and Mission Dolores





Large red brick building with the arched roof is the National Guard Armory and Arsenal (1914), a historic landmark.



The large warehouse is San Francisco Municipal Railway’s Flynn Division, housing Muni’s fleet of articulated diesel buses.



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Noe Valley



Looking northeast towards SOMA, Rincon Hill, and the Bay Bridge. The big building at bottom right is the U.S. Mint.



Dolores Park





Bayview and Hunters Point Shipyard in the distance







Mission High School





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Bernal Heights



Eureka Valley



Kite Hill











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General Hospital and Potrero Hill





Upper Market
Past Castro, San Francisco’s main thoroughfare climbs up and up towards Twin Peaks, eventually becoming Portola Drive and continuing all the way to West Portal.











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amazing photos. They captured so much detail and so much beauty.
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I love your photography, quashlo. You have a great eye for both natural and man-made beauty. Sometimes both at the same time.
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Chinese New Year Parade
2013.03.23

The parade is typically a couple of weeks after the actual Lunar New Year… We start off in Chinatown to do some people-watching at the Chinatown Community Street Fair. This is actually the second street fair during the new year, catering more to tourists and visitors—the first is the flower market that takes place on the weekend of the actual Lunar New Year holiday that caters more to the local Chinese community.

Old St. Mary’s Cathedral (1854) at the corner of California and Grant



Looking down Commercial towards the Ferry Building
There’s always a lot of free promotional goodies available at the booths (if you’re willing to stand in line and wait).















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Now moving to the actual parade… Went a bit early to get a good spot.









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Here we go…









Matsu (媽祖), goddess of the sea









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