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Fleet week this year was celebrating its 31th year running. Wikipedia article estimates that the event attracts over 1 million people to watch the airshow along the San Francisco bay. This year was no exception. I went as usual on Thursday to photograph the Blue Angels first practice run. The weather was largely overcast and I had some issues with my lens, so I have only a few images from Thursday (the only one which made the cut, has a 25% grey background). But Saturday I went sailing and I got great images, including a F-22 raptor, a...

This weekend was probably the busiest weekend in San Francisco in a very long time. At the same time, we had the America’s cup world serie, Fleet week, Castro Street, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, Italian Heritage Parade in North Beach,  a playoff between the Giants and the Reds and a football game between the 49ers and the Buffalo. Generally, simply Fleet Week is crazy. This year it was overwhelming, and everyone was in San Francisco. I tried to escape the crowd somehow by getting on the water. The bay was really packed but still...