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The N-Judah Streetcar
Powell Street Station
December 13th, 2025, 2:13 p.m.
A 1 second exposure, handheld.
Notice there are no trees... which is a funny thing I discovered last night, confirmed by thumbing through the 1500 photos I've posted in the last 3 years. Out of all those 1500 photos, only a dozen or so have significant trees in them. Sure, there's an odd branch or two. But there are no trees.
Am I a monster? An orc?
Awesome. Color, motion.
@BobHorowitz This pic needs no trees.
I like it.
@frederic_edler I'm still laughing at this discovery I made last night. Someone had said they could recognize my photos instantly without knowing I was the photographer... So I looked for a tell, a common theme, because I thought every photo look different from the previous one.
The tell, apparently, is no trees.
@BobHorowitz meanwhile in tokyo this man is angry with me for being close to the barrier the stands a meter tall between the platform and the train... dont know what foreigners have been doing in tokyo while i've been away, but the staff are now terrified for them!
@jon_ellis you are clearly a scofflaw 😉
@BobHorowitz clearly! when the law wears its hat at a jaunty angle one has an obligation to scoff, does one not?
@jon_ellis
Indeed.
*raises martini glass to that*
@BobHorowitz For a Chicagoan, San Francisco has very few trees outside of the parks.
@clonezone This is sadly true. We are very good at poles with overhead wires but totally lacking in the tree department.
@BobHorowitz On the overhead wires front, I had a close brush with death when I was standing on a curb in North Beach when one of the electric busses went over a bump, causing a yank on the wires connecting to a lamp post and the glass cover for the light came crashing down 3 feet from me.
@BobHorowitz In ‘95, I was working at the top of 75 Hawthorn, which has 2 story tall diagonal windows with views in all directions. One day, I’m looking out over the city and I had a sudden realization that there’s no trees. Just a weird thing at the time.
@BobHorowitz fascinating and beautiful, nonetheless
@fondoffawns Your pictures have trees. You are not broken.
@BobHorowitz I spend an awful lot of time under the trees
@BobHorowitz no, you just live in the hellscape that is San Francisco
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<please god nobody miss the sarcasm>
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