Coasting

Alcatraz Island in the fog, San Francisco, Ca.

A woman reaches over to strangle her sister's panda puppet during a San Francisco Giants game against the L.A. Dodgers. "The Panda," a nickname for Giants player Pablo Sandoval, had just struck out in the second inning, and the Giants lost 8-2.

Cable car, downtown San Francisco, Ca.


Perhaps one of the stranger homes along the California coast, Nit Wit Ridge is an eight-story handmade creation by a one-time garbage man, who used to deposit his collections in the back yard. Most of the structure is held together with random objects - especially beer cans - cemented together over the 60 or so years he lived there.