The Bay Lights Framed Print

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As usual on a recent trip to San Francisco, it was hard for me to resist the draws of the bridges, and I especially wanted to check out the new art installation by Leo Villareal, The Bay Lights.

The tide was perfect to show the tops of these old pier pilings at Rincon Park as a foreground element. I wanted to smooth out the water by using a long exposure, so even though this was shot when it was getting quite dark, I used a 3-stop ND filter to extend the exposure time to four and a half minutes, giving the water this silky, reflective quality.

The 25,000 lights that make up the art installation have been installed on the vertical supporting cables of the Bay Bridge on the side facing downtown San Francisco, and will be up for the next two years. They are individually controlled and show sweeping patterns running from one end of the bridge to the other, but in this long exposure, they all appear to be on at once (apart from a few segments which can be seen to have fail...

Born in the UK, I moved to Vancouver, BC in 2011. My career in photography has grown from a long-held passion for capturing the beauty of the world, aided on the technical side by my background as a software developer. I specialise in fine art photography of landscapes, seascapes and cityscapes in and around the Pacific Northwest, with work exhibited internationally. Many of my photographs feature the beautiful city of Vancouver, but as well as capturing its iconic cityscapes, I can often be found exploring the BC and Washington coastline for new photographic opportunities, as well as developing my portfolio of night sky photographs featuring the Milky Way and the Aurora Borealis.

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