Burton Rast

I always wonder whether the framing of the Empire State Building by the Manhattan Bridge was intentional. (I feel the same way about California St. and the Bay Bridge back home.)

Raise your hand if you knew the Empire State Building had an unapologetically art deco spire that was restored in 2020. Hello, NY. 🗽

30,000 strong taking a knee on Santa Monica Boulevard for All Black Lives Matter and LA Pride.

Of the Sutro Tower, San Francisco Chronicle journalist Herb Caen famously wrote, "I keep waiting for it to stalk down the hill and attack the Golden Gate Bridge." 👽

Digging in the crates for the August monthly category.

Bringing the fog of my adoptive city to my hometown. ✶✶✶✶

A day late for the wildlife monthly category, though I did capture this one on on June 27, fwiw. 🐝

Buena Vista Park is the oldest park in San Francisco, and the refuge that keeps me sane between meetings. Its west side paths are lined with broken headstones from the city’s Victorian cemeteries, some of which have discernible inscriptions placed facing up. 🪦

175 Fifth Avenue. This is the first image I ever captured in this style that I knew I loved. 🖤

A friend suggested the only unifying architectural characteristic of the buildings of Tel Aviv is that they don’t fall over. She’s not wrong.

The sounds of indoctrination, division, and subjugation; Western Wall, Old City.

A series I’ve recently considered revitalizing. ‘Winter Wavelengths’ β8. 

Process grief. 6 September 2021. Forty-three.

The 2.2 mi / 3.5 km, 525’ tall Eastern span replacement of the San Francisco—Oakland Bay Bridge. At 258.33 ft / 78.74 m in width, it is the world's widest bridge. And, with a final price tag of $6.5 billion (a 2,500% cost overrun from the original estimate of $250 million), it is the most expensive public works project in California history.

An iPhone capture from a week spent in flux, and a reminder that the best camera is the one that’s with you. Happy World Photography Day, all.