It all began one February, with a decision by Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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I'm far from being a morning person, yet somehow I managed to drag myself out of bed at 5am to catch the cross-bay BART train to meet up with the first morning couples waiting outside. What can I say: the light's great, people are filled with anticipation, and often they'll do interesting things to pass the time. For example, Jake, the boy in the above picture, was absolutely irrepressible:
And some pictures just don't work under any other kind of light:
Aside from my nocturnal predisposition, the main problem with early mornings was that by the end of the day, I wound up falling asleep on the commute home. I've woken up all the way at the end of Richmond line four or five times in just three weeks of shooting.