SUNSETS ARE PRETTY GUYS

The Best Way to Take in a San Francisco Sunset

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Here's what you're going to do at TIMF 2012: about 20 minutes before sunset (when the sun is touching the tops of the buildings/imminent fog), buy yourself a ticket for the ferris wheel and get in line.  If you get too close to the front of the line before the sky turns bright orange, jump out and go to the back of the line again.  The best five bucks you'll spend inside the festival gates.

[Oh, and feel free to blow up that grainy pano]

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Apparently Sunsets Are Also Nice in Oakland

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

These last few weeks have definitely felt more like Montana summers than late fall in San Francisco.  Warm days, nights that don't make you want to curl up in the fetal position and die, and epic sunsets.

While my nightly dose of Sutro protruding into the orange sky is nice, it's refreshing to see some shots of the Port of Oakland set to the familiar orange backdrop.

(photo by Emily Davis, who happens to have plenty of other shots from Oakland worth checking out)

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Nice Evening in the Richmond

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Last night I had the particular misfortune of being in the Richmond, which is some neighborhood that isn't the Mission.  Instead of being full of taquerias, dive bars and snarky internet assholes with iPhones, it was populated with Chinese restaurants, Chase banks and people generally aware of their surroundings.  Awful.  Anyway, after sneering at the lack of vegan options at the pizza place I went to, I looked up in the air and realized it was pretty outside.  Lucky for you, I had my trusty 7-year old camera that I still don't know how to operate on me at the time.

Of course, if my grainy photography isn't enough to wet your whistle, here's an HDR shot of Dolores Park, the view from the Presidio, and, the most stunning of all, a shot from the Berkeley Hills.