I’ve been search­ing for clues on get­ting those spec­tac­u­lar shots of build­ings, bridges and sun­sets peek­ing through the San Fran­cis­co bay area fog. Here is an arti­cle by Tom Ste­in­stra from Date­Book’s Fog Week on the SFGate web site that dis­cuss­es oppor­tu­ni­ties for catch­ing those views. In addi­tion to their moun­tain top sug­ges­tions, read the com­ments for a few more. (Warn­ing: some col­or­ful and angry com­men­tary.)

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/16/SP6618ORUH.DTL&type=living

“For the total­ly lazy, or if you’re trav­el­ing, you can often get above the fog shots, up to the minute, from the cam­era at Lawrence hall of Sci­ence above Berke­ley. http://sv.berkeley.edu/view/”

And 2 oth­er use­ful web­cams I picked up from fel­low pho­togs at the World Wide Web Pho­to Walk:

Hi-Def San Fran­cis­co — is a cam locat­ed in Sausal­i­to point­ed at San Fran­cis­co dis­play­ing up to 1080 res­o­lu­tion and pro­vid­ed by Cloud­View Pho­tog­ra­phy. This is the best SF cam I have found to date.

CBS5.com pro­vides many traf­fic and bay area site cam links from Ocean Beach to Heav­en­ly Val­ley Ski Resort.