A photo story

Alcatraz

Alcatraz from the San Francisco waterfront in September 2026. I zoomed in all the way and you can still make out the lighthouse, the cellhouse up top, and the old ruins along the rocks, with choppy water out front and a gray sky to match. It was in the mid 60s, and the sky stayed mostly gray all morning.

The island sits out in the bay, and even from the waterfront you can still read the old prison buildings if you zoom in hard enough. That gray sky and the chop on the water were a good match for the place.