West Oakland, July 2024: a quick-and-dirty iPhone video morsel while I worked on other things.
Just an iPhone pressed against the window of a BART train between West Oakland and Embarcadero (San Francisco) stations, with no particular intentions in mind. I lucked out with the weather (the cloudy sky and subdued high-saturation light in particular) and the unusually slow speed of the train… and the even more unusually clean(ish) window. I know the area shown in the video — an always-struggling uneasy mixture of industry and residential blocks — from decades of criss-crossing it on a bike and having friends and acquaintances in the neighbourhood (lately getting worried about gentrification even here, though).