San Francisco

It’s easier to ride than walk the Hyde Street hill.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

Lombard Street in San Francisco is known as “The Crookedest Street In The World.”  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

San Francisco visitor Chetan Hans from Louisiana sees himself and the Ferry Building reflected in a puddle.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

The sun sets behind Coit Tower in San Francisco.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

Evening commuters on the Bay Bridge, looking toward San Francisco from Yerba Buena Island.  (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

A golden sunset finds the Golden Gate Bridge.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

Dusk drapes the San Francisco skyline.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

Visitors silhouetted in the Ferry Building of San Francisco with the Bay Bridge beyond.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

With nightfall, the Ferry Building dons neon and the Transamerica Pyramid emerges in sharp relief.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

San Francisco’s Lotta’s Fountain at Kearny and Market streets is where residents gathered in search of loved ones after the 1906 earthquake.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

A girl at the H. Dana Bowers Memorial Vista Point in Marin County on a rainy day by the Golden Gate Bridge.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)

The Transamerica Pyramid and downtown San Francisco are framed within the windows of the Carnelian Room restaurant.  (Genaro Molina / LAT)