San Francisco - Part 1 - Embarcadero Center

Today was a beautiful day in San Francisco, perfect to take pictures. I started early morning on my way to the office with a few building shots from Embarcadero Center:


Some beautiful staircase, my 17-40mm was barely enough to capture everything I wanted to put in the frame.

Then for my lunch break I visited the Hyatt on Embarcadero and took some pretty interesting shots. I did not have a tripod with me so the pictures inside were taken at 800 ISO, but they came up pretty well.

For the following two I was glad to have with me my CP to darken the sky and cut the reflection on the glass:


This is the same one as the first one, in black and white:

Canon 17-40mm L - 17mm - f4.0 - 1/40s - handled