The Bay Bridge through a hotel window

I go to San Francisco a few times a year for work, and, when the nightly rates allow it, I get to stay at the Hyatt Regency. The Regency faces the Ferry Building, the bay, and the Bay Bridge. However most rooms look into adjacent office buildings as opposed to the bay, and you have to crane your neck out the sliding glass door (which opens) to see the bay so it's hard to get interesting photos.

However, my last trip I got lucky & they messed up my reservation. They said the only thing available was a bay-view room for an extra $15 a night, and would I like that? Well shucks, I guess so.

Now, I had already planned a photography objective for this trip, in that Saturday evening the moon was going to rise before sunset, and I like to chase those shots. So, I had used my TPE app to explore locations around the bay, looking for a location that would let me place the moon against an interesting landmark. Low & behold, I get to my 9th floor room, and I can see that all I have to do is open the sliding glass door & set up the tripod, and I'll be able to get the moon right through the Bay Bridge. Perfect!

I did indeed get a few shots like that, but the conditions turned out to be less than ideal that particular night. Far better where the sunrise, blue-hour, and night shots I was able to get. For better or worse, there was a guy playing the saxophone every morning in front of the Ferry Building that woke me up before sunrise, but hey I got some good shots out of it, so no harm, now foul.

These were all with the X-T2, 16-55, and 50-140.  Shot raw and processed in Capture One v10.

Hope you enjoy!

Night shot.

First of a sequence of three sunrise shots.

The moon shot I looking for.  Not much color that night due to clouds to my back.

Blue hour.