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Grand Staircase

            From a March, 2007 trip to the abandoned Bethlehem Shipyard offices, a four-story 1917 Beaux Arts office building in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood. Access was difficult, climbing tall fences and crawling in through a basement window, but the building was a spectacular ruin inside. Ensuing years saw it fall into extreme decline, until it was meticulously renovated in 2020. It's now an upscale furniture store and restaurant.

The massive (and difficult to light) first floor lobby vestibule.  Made entirely of marble. 

Night, completely dark room (except the streetlight shining on the steps through a crack in the boarded up windows), blue and red-gelled strobe flash.  Minor perspective adjust in Photoshop.

Reprocessed and replaced, September 2023.

Taken on: March 30, 2007

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