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Ty of Twin Lights Publishers Property of Twin Lights Publ Ty of Twin Lights Publishers Property of Twin Lights Publ Ty O $26.95 A photographic portrait Photographer Bob Morris takes you on a visual journey, Bob Morris visiting the historic landmarks, natural wonders, and PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTSSan Francisco PUBLISHERS is a city founded by Bob Morris is a San Francisco Bay Area a phoTOGRaphic porTRAIT and for adventure seekers rooted based photographer specializing in vibrant creativity of San Francisco, a city of artists, in the ideal of progressive values. people, architecture, interiors, and stock. At once cosmopolitan and relaxed, With over 25 years’ experience, he began iconoclasts, innovators, and adventure seekers. his career as a staff photographer for the professional and playful, the “City Southern Pacific Railroad based in San by the Bay” captures tens of thou- Francisco. With that company’s vast land sands of new residents a year even holdings in the western states, assignments A P though the physical boundaries of were varied and challenging. Included H the peninsula that San Francisco is PROPERTY OF TWINOTOGRAP LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS were aerials, logging operations, coal situated on prevents the advance- mines, industrial parks, executive portraits, and, of course, trains for the company’s ment of urban sprawl. Just outside public relations, annual reports, adver- this seven-by-seven swath, Golden H tising, and brochures. Bob now shoots IC PORT Gate National Parkland stretches assignments for various clients around up and down the coast, providing the U.S. and adds to his stock library as visitors with plenty of outdoor rec- time allows. To learn more about Bob, RAIT reation opportunities in addition please visit www.bobmorrisphoto.com to the myriad of cultural happen- and www.sfstockphoto.com. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS ings within the city limits. Photographer Bob Morris cap- tures the vibrant creativity and passion of San Francisco with his B O eloquent and powerful photog- B M raphy, while writer Joslyn Ham- ORRIs • ilton shares the stories behind the images. From San Francisco’s Joslyn Hamilton PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Native American, Mexican, and J A lifelong writer by nature, Joslyn Hamil- OSLYN Spanish Mission heritage, through ton parlayed her passion for words into a settlement by gold seekers and freelance copywriting business, Outside H the great earthquakes of 1906 and Eye Consulting, and has also written for A M 1989, San Francisco is a resilient various publications including NYTimes. ILTON com, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, city with a heart of gold. Common Ground, and Elephant Journal. She has edited and ghostwritten books on a variety of themes such as cooking, PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS poetry, personal finance, and yoga. She is the co-founder and co-managing editor of the irreverent website RecoveringYogi. T com as well as a frequent contributor to W photography by the site. IN LIG Bob Morris Joslyn lives, writes, and hikes through the H merciless Bay Area fog from her home TS narrative by in Marin County, just north of the always P breathtaking Golden Gate Bridge. Her UB Joslyn Hamilton PROPERTY OF TWINLIS LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS unflagging reverence for the many sights and landscapes of San Francisco and the HE surrounding countryside stem from her RS chilly upbringing in cold, blustery New England. To read more of Joslyn’s writing, Book Design by: visit www.outsideeyeconsulting.com. SYP Design & Production, Inc. www.sypdesign.com PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS SAN FRANCISCO A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PHOTOGRAPHY BY Bob Morris NARRATIVE BY PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Joslyn Hamilton twin lights publishers, rockport, massachusetts Copyright © 2014 by Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS copyright owners. All images in this book have been reproduced with the knowledge and prior consent of the artists concerned and no responsibility is accepted by producer, publisher, or printer for any infringement of copyright or otherwise, arising from the contents of this publication. Every effort has been made to ensure that credits accurately comply with information supplied. PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS First published in the United States of America by: Twin Lights Publishers, Inc. 51 Broadway Rockport, Massachusetts 01966 Telephone: (978) 546-7398 www.twinlightspub.com PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS ISBN: 978-1-934907-31-3 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS (opposite) Golden Gate Bridge (frontispiece) Transamerica Building and Sentinel Building (jacket front) Golden Gate Bridge PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Book design by: SYP Design & Production, Inc. www.sypdesign.com 2Printed in China 3 PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS magnet for iconoclasts and adventure seek- material attachment. San Francisco’s first European A ers, San Francisco is a city with a rich history mission—which still stands in the aptly-named that includes settlement by the Ohlone Indians, Mission District—was Mission San Francisco de Asís, Spanish missionaries, Mexican colonizers, European otherwise known as Mission Dolores. Eventually, San gold seekers, and Asian immigrants. All came in Francisco gained independence from Spain and was search of a new life in a better place; San Francisco annexed by Mexico, and the town was renamed PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS still holds the allure of a better life for the tens of Yerba Buena, after a local aromatic mint plant, before thousands who move to the city every year. officially becoming San Francisco in 1776—seventy- “The City by the Bay” has the distinction of being four years before California’s official induction into the only city in the state of California that is its own the United States. self-contained county. Situated on a peninsula Unlike St. Francis, San Francisco’s European settlers bound by water on three sides, the city measures were indeed motivated by riches as they migrated 46.9 square miles, or roughly seven by seven miles— west during the Gold Rush. Over the centuries, a relatively small urban area with plenty to love. San San Francisco has been a revolutionary hotbed for PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS PROPERTY OF TWIN LIGHTS PUBLISHERS Francisco is an incredibly diverse place, known for its plenty of other renegades as well, from the racy open-minded and free-spirited ethos. Inclusion has Barbary Coast characters to the Beat Generation always been a priority for San Franciscans, and cre- and the hippies who put Haight-Ashbury on the ativity a championed quality—as illustrated by the map and launched the career of the Grateful Dead. many outdoor artworks scattered around the various The progressive spirit of counterculture is still alive neighborhoods and the festivals and events that take and well in San Francisco; today, it’s epitomized by place year-round in the mild climate of the Bay Area. Burning Man and the many tech startups revolution- Long before California became part of the Union, izing our modern lifestyle. 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