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Day 44: February 13, 2014: Oyster Point, South San Francisco

Today was a strange weather day down in South San Francisco. Normally, we get pretty consistent clear skies during the day, with the wind picking up quite a bit in the afternoon. However, today it was warm, with a weird shallow fog rolling in off the bay, probably 40-50 feet thick at most.

I took the opportunity for a little walk down the bay trail to see what I could see and test out my new borrowed Yashicaflex medium format TLR. It’s been well used, with some missing pieces and a few dents, but the important bits seem to be working fine, so I set out to see what it could do. Turns out I had a bit of difficulty keeping it closed on this roll, giving me the leaky haze around the bottom of the photo at right. I think I’ve figured that part out now, and I have a ton of expired 120 film left, so I’ll keep on carrying on with it. It certainly gets attention when I’m out walking around with it…

All of these shots were taken at the Oyster Point Pier, with the other two on 35mm. I was digging the way it faded off into the fog, with only faint glimpses of the fishermen at the end coming through the fog, so this seemed like the best place for a few shots. That, and this was about as far as I could walk before it was time to get back and finish my work.

(Expired Kodak Portra 400 120 film in a well worn borrowed Yashicaflex C TLR and fresh 35mm Portra 400 in the thrift shop Canon 650)