Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island 1989 by joysabin

Bay Bridge from Yerba Buena Island 1989

While continuing my scanning of negatives project I found this. The Island is in the middle of San Francisco Bay between the SF and Oakland. A shot taken looking towards SF on a typical summer day, cloudy. Just a touch up in Photoshop.
Amazing view and the bw works so well!
August 25th, 2016  
Great view and super processing..
August 25th, 2016  
Excellent shot
August 25th, 2016  
Bay Bridge on the left hand side really draws the eye into the rest of the image. Like the processing too!
August 25th, 2016  
Gerat shot -- I remember it well (the bridge alas is but a memory now post earthquake)
August 25th, 2016  
Amazing shot. I especially love how the white clouds show up. FAV for sure.
August 25th, 2016  
@izzyromilly This is a B&W film negative. I was only shooting B&W back then. I need to get back into film since I have the scanner and don't need an enlarger. @jeffinvt I only real processing I did was to clean up the scratches and dust spots that were on the film. I started with B&W film and now am scanning those oldie moldy negatives. @graemestevens Thank you, am openning old boxes and finding more negatives to scan and play with.
@megpicatilly Thank you, when I shot this, the Navy still had its base there. I was worried that I would be caught climbing around 'their' island and put in jail.
@jaybutterfield My sister and her husband lived on Yerba Buena for years and I got to visit them form time to time, this was in the summer before the earthq uake. $7 billion for the new bridge- oh my goodness. @miata2u Thank you so much for the fav. I took this so long ago and was very happy to find the negative so I can now scan it. Digital is so much easier to clean up and way less smelly but, I do miss being in a darkroom.
August 26th, 2016  
Brilliant shot and so cool to see this film version.
August 26th, 2016  
You have time to scan your oldies; it takes ages? Well done, I like the POV, the picture has a gentle softness .
August 26th, 2016  
What a great bridge and beautiful composition.
August 26th, 2016  
Wonderful
August 26th, 2016  
beautifully captured! love it
August 27th, 2016  
Fabulous!
August 27th, 2016  
Wonderful:)
August 28th, 2016  
@taffy Thank you so much, I haven't been back to that Island in years. No longer owed by the Navy so who knows what it is like now?
@paulmann Thank you, I was only shooting B&W back then. I've never learned color processing (yet). I use an Epson flatbed but I didn't realize that I can only two strips at a time but it really does a great job. @deborah63 Thank you, the bridge has been replaced on the eastern side of the Island due to the earthquake in 1989 for only 3billion. It is a major commute route from Oakland to San Francisco.
@allycoxon Thank you a great deal. Used to love to visit but haven't in years. Now the city (SF) is dot.com central and much too expensive. @jerome Thank you, The city is/was a favorite of mine.
@frappa77 Thank you, scanning my old film negatives really does bring back good memories.
@sketch2 Thank you a great deal.
August 28th, 2016  
Outstanding! Great range of tones.
August 29th, 2016  
What an interesting shot, fav. Great cityscape to the right and it looks more rural to the left.. Is that the golden gate bridge @joysabin ?
August 29th, 2016  
@pickerandagrinner Thank you so very much, I was so surprised that I didn't need to do much clean up of this old negative. Film does have so many possibilities.
@stephanies I am very grateful for the fav. The left side is South SF, the old Candlestick Park is there-Baseball and Football Stadium. Today that area is probably built up and so longer looks the same. This is the Oakland Bay Bridge which a part of it co-lapsed in the 1989 earthquake. They have re-built that part now only cost $3 billion.
August 30th, 2016  
nice..fav
September 3rd, 2016  
@moviegal1 So very grateful for the fav. Such an old negative but amazed that I found it (again).
September 4th, 2016  
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