Bay City Reflections Canvas Print

In Bay City Reflections, buildings in San Francisco’s financial district are reflected in the beautiful store window along with its own light, airy design.
San Francisco is that famous city by the bay in California, USA. The city is actually is the only combo or combined city and county in California, the densest city by population and the smallest county. . The first known human habitation here precedes the Spanish by thousands of years. Earliest archaeological evidence checks in around 3000 BC.
The Spanish arrived in 1776, establishing the original Presidio and a Mission. In 1846, San Francisco and the California territory were ceded to the United States at the end of the Mexican-American War.
The influx of people during the California Gold Rush in 1848-9 soon made San Francisco the largest city in the West, its population going from 1000 to 25,000 in about a year. The gold rush wealth brought the banks to the city, followed by the railroad and business. San Franc...

Creating portals of light, love, joy, beauty, compassion, hope and gratitude is my lifelong passion and purpose. My mother painted when i was young and encouraged drawing and painting and handcrafting in all forms and my father, the photographer, gave me my first camera at age 8. As a result, i have been a lifelong student of both mediums. Formal training of my eye and technique has been with the wonderful Pacific NW painter teachers, Stan Capon and Edi Olson. i hope you will enjoy these images as much as i enjoyed their creation.