Vision Longboards The pastel is the marine

The pastel is the marine layer doing its work: a low band of cloud over the cold California current that diffuses and warms the dropping sun

Locals call it Ajax — 3

From a high road

they hold on the gravel bar through October and November

Vision Longboards The pastel is the marineCoit Tower has stood on Telegraph Hill in San Francisco since 1933, paid for by Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to the city she said had saved her brother's life. The Tower Optical Co. viewers bolted to its observation deck are the same brand that's stood on overlooks across America since the 1930s. Quarters only the price has gone up a few times, but the mechanism hasn't really changed in ninety years. Alex shoots in black and white.