On Sunday, we had a free day and decided to go somewhere new and take photographs. After some discussion, we decided on the Mission District in San Francisco. On Saturday, I had passed a new mural being painted, and wanted to show Jason.
We spent most of our time on 24th street - a many block area which is full of restaurants, markets, and has many murals to check out.
I have lived in San Francisco for over four years, and had never really taken the chance to stop and look at the amazing murals around the Mission. They are thanks to the Precita Eyes project - one of only a few community mural projects in the nation. After spending only a short time really looking at them yesterday, I would highly recommend taking a tour, or just wandering around the Mission neighborhoods to find them yourself.
I often go to the Mission during the week to pick up a bite to eat, or food to go for dinner. However, we don't often make it down there during the weekend days. Sunday mornings and afternoons, many of the taquerias set up on the sidewalks outside and you can purchase tacos from their stands.
Before we left for the day I had to bite my tongue to keep from trying to establish ground rules with Jason like "If I am taking a shot, you can't encroach on me and take the same picture." I decided just to let it go and see what happened. It was amazing. The two of us were side by side all day, and took over a hundred shots between us. Not one of them was the same. Not one of them duplicated pictures taken by the other in any sense of the word. Jason has started a blog (yippee!), and you can see one of his mural shots here. He told me that he will be putting up more shots from yesteday, so keep an eye out for them. Where I was testing out the close-up features of my Nikon 5700, he was playing with his new fish-eye lens for wide-angle shots of the murals.
You can see more of my album on the Mission by clicking here.
