Metal Crowd control devices in a hallway that is old and decrepit with peeling paint and moss, mold, and plants gowing out of the walls at Alcatraz Island…
Pipe and metal support
Gray pipe with green moss growing on it at a diagonal to a wal with peeling paint and exposed and rusting steel metal rebar at Alcatraz Island Prison National…
Given any small chance
Delicate green leaves and purple flowers enamate from a hole in an old peeling painted white brick wall at Alcatraz Island Prison National Monument, San…
Looking out from jail
Gray concrete wall with green moss growing on it punctuated by small slit windows allowing a view to the San Francisco Bay beyond and sailboats and Marin County…
Bird and Boat
A sailboat at full sail and chaparral covered coastal hills topped with a thick enveloping fog bank can be seen in the distance beyond crumbling concrete and…
Nob Hill and downtown San Francisco from on the water on a cloudy day
View of the city of San Francisco from a ferry in the SF Bay with very flat light and muted colors and the buildings of Nob Hill and Coit Tower visible in the…
Abandoned building at Alcatraz
Old building with peeling paint and dead vines fills half the frame, while Angel Island and the San Francisco Bay with one sailboat on it fill the other half
The Western Gull can escape from Alcatraz anytime it wants.
Closeup of the white head and grey body of a seagull that is cleaning its beak or its feathers
Alcatraz detail #1
The roof and a window on an old brick and concrete window on an overcast day
Alcatraz detail #2
A seagull sits in the concrete ruins of a building on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz detail #3
Abstract of a crumbling wall of a building on Alcatraz with an exposed rebar an exposed window frame and whole window with a fake owl in it
Alcatraz detail #4
Crumbling wall with painted grey wooden slats, exposed rebar and wooden door and window frames
Alcatraz detail #5
metal bar windows and an old fire escape on Alcatraz
Rusty old water tank on Alcatraz
Rusted green and white metal girders support the large rusting water tank which fills the background
Alcatraz detail #6
Closeup of a corrugated metal roof with moss and lichen with an old glass window with a faded painted frame
Nesting Season for the Western Gull
Seagull with food in its mouth on a crumbling concrete railing behind flower bushes and in front of the sea
Dont drop the soap in the Alcatraz showers
Row of metal showerheads emerging from a common pipe with only one in the middle in focus and the rest defocused
Colorful cell at Alcatraz
multicolored painted cell wall and broken toilet and dirty sink in an inmates cell in Alcatraz Island
Windows with Bars on Alcatraz prisoner block
Row of windows trailing off into the distance with a disintegrating wall and thick metal bars over every window
Brandts Cormorants have taken over Alcatraz.
Many black birds with bright blue throat patches nest and relax amidst crumbling concrete and brick structures