On Dec. 28th, we decided to go to the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive for a showing of the Miles Davis documentary - Birth of the Cool . While walking around Berkeley, before the film, we encountered the Cinnaholic Bakery. We knew that meant a return trip to Berkeley to procure cinnamon rolls for consumption the next day, New Year’s Day.
But how to spend our 41st wedding anniversary day on the 30th?
I had read a N.Y. Times Dec. 22nd article about an SF MoMA exhibit of John Beasley Greene's photographs & was intrigued. The exhibit was to be there until January 5th before moving on to Chicago. It was wonderful. A lot of folks knew about Greene. The carefully curated exhibit included photographs from collections from around the world. Some of the collections were private, or from intriguing ones like a Canadian school of architecture. The captions were well written & clear. I have included an abundance of photos & captions because the exhibit is now in Chicago. Greene was fortunate to study with Gustave Le Gray, who developed a waxed paper negative that had greater definition than the earlier version. Not using heavy, cumbersome, wet-colloidan glass plates enabled Greene to take more photographs than was previously feasible.
We planned our anniversary day starting @ SFMoMA & ending @ Mr. Tipple's on Fell St. for cocktails, dinner & music. We parked at the Civic Center Garage & proceeded to walk 10.5 miles this day. The next day’s adventure took us, once again to Berkeley. We had a shopping & “to see” list that took us around Berkeley, starting with a late breakfast at Bette’s Ocean View Diner & ending at the Pacific East Mall. Only 3.3 miles of walking were chalked up.
San Francisco photos taken with an Apple iPhone X. A FujiFilm X30 camera was used for all the rest.
