We walked through Chinatown en route to Ghirardelli Square…
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San Francisco Skyline (Part 2), August 1997
We wanted to take a look at the San Francisco skyline from the TransAmerica Pyramid, but the building was closed for the weekend. So we went to the Mandarin Oriental Hotel instead; the building contains a number of beautiful glass walkways over 40 stories up.
The hotel is visible in the photo below; it’s the tall building to the right of the TransAmerica Pyramid. Click the image to see the rest of the skyline photos.
Tea at the Sheraton Palace San Francisco, August 1997
We had tea at the Sheraton Palace with our friends Janet, Jennifer, and Dan. The Sheraton Palace is a grand old hotel; the photo of the interior space hardly does it justice.
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San Francisco Skyline (Part 1), August 1997
We stayed at the Stanford Court Hotel while in San Francisco. We were fortunate and had a nice view from our room…
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Napa Valley, August 1997
Holly and I drove up to Napa Valley for a day; it’s a really nice place to visit.
We visited the Sterling Vineyards Winery, partially because it has a pretty nifty sky tram from which one can see a lot of Napa Valley. The winery tour itself was pretty interesting as well; even relatively small vineyards have to work on a fairly massive scale (note the size of those tanks!)
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Clouds En Route to San Francisco, August 1997
National Airport, August 1997
Several photos of the terminal at Washington National Airport (August 1997). These photos were taken within a couple of weeks of the opening of the new terminal, which is an architecturally-striking place (and a huge improvement over the dingy old terminal).
Clouds, July 1997
A few photos of some interesting clouds preceding a July 1997 summer storm. Click the photo below for the full set of images.
Digital photo of Matt McIrvin, June 1997
Photo of my friend Matt McIrvin, June 1997 in Cambridge, MA.
Additional comments (Feb. 2014): Matt’s seen here checking out my awe-inspiring Toshiba Tecra 740 laptop. 16MB of RAM! 1024×768 screen! 2G disk! Nine pounds! Battery life was easily an hour if you didn’t need to use the screen.
Photo taken with the equally awe-inspiring Kodak DC120 digital camera, with mind-bending 1280×960 resolution.
The Nikon LS-1000 Super Coolscan 35mm Film Scanner
The Nikon LS-1000 Super Coolscan is a SCSI film scanner capable of scanning from both slides (positive images) and color negatives. Both PC and Mac software is supplied with the scanner.
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