This picture is from my first roll of film through a borrowed Hasselblad. This was taken on Slacker Hill, my favorite location from which to view the bridge. Everyone has seen views of the Golden Gate bridge with San Francisco in the background, but they're nearly always taken from about a mile to the left (west) of this spot, missing the curving approach to the bridge on the Marin side. The reason is simple: You can drive your car to Hawk Hill to the west of here, but you have to walk almost 300 yards off pavement and uphill to get to this spot. You can usually have this hill to yourself. It's arguable which hill offers the prettier view, but this view is certainly more novel.
The web scan really doesn't do justice to this picture. It's from a medium format negative, and there is great detail on the negative. For example, here's a blow-up from this same negative, showing the steel girders underneath the Marin approach on the left side of the bridge.
Because I don't have a medium format scanner, I scanned this negative with my 35mm scanner. The original negative was square, but I cut the top and bottom off the negative with scissors, and fed it into my scanner, telling the scanner to treat it as a panoramic negative.
Date: December 2, 2000.
Camera: Hasselblad 500C/M
Lens: 50mm f4 CF T*
Film: Fuji Reala
Exposure: 30 seconds @ f16
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