CraigBILL

Walking around San Francisco is fun enough.... but night hiking is altogether different. From the Embarcadero district, you can watch the dancing lights of the Bay Bridge. Like a giant laser show, the bridge lighting displays shapes like fish and stars and is supposedly choreographed to the city’s rhythms somehow. All I knew is this was a great place to set up my camera.

Even though the Golden Gate Bridge is just around the corner of the bay, it is no match for the Bay Bridge’s nightly concert of light. And this can only be seen from the San Francisco side of the bridge, not the Oakland side.

While I setup my equipment, skaters, bikers and strolling spectators spun around me. For this shot I used a nice long exposure of about 30 seconds to get the dreamy effect. I just loved how the old concrete pier stands stood out in front of the newly updated Bay Bridge. From this sight, you can feel a San Francisco stretch of time at one glance - older buildings and pier ruins right along side of new soaring sky towers overlooking the shining Bay Bridge.