SHOW TIME!

“It’s always show time in San Francisco,” says Bruce Detlefsen, who
does street photography in the City by the Bay for part of every year.
“What I mean is that legions of musicians, dancers, acrobats and so
forth can be found performing somewhere day and night, from
tourist-clogged Pier 39 and Union Square to such other locales as Golden
Gate Park, Dolores Park and Yerba Buena Gardens. YBG alone stages one
hundred outdoor events each summer, and they’re all free.”

Detlefsen adds that his favorite festivities for shooting pictures
are the annual, razzle-dazzle Gay Pride Parade along Market Street,
Dragon Boat Races at Treasure Island and Trolley Dances at various spots
close to MUNI streetcar lines.

A small sampling of his work appears on this web site.

Detlefsen is a retiree living in Virginia’s Rockbridge County. He
uses a Canon digital camera and belongs to the Rockbridge Camera Club
and Rockbridge Arts Guild. He is fond of quoting this remark by the
late philosopher George Santayana: “Never have I enjoyed youth so
thoroughly as in my old age. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young
except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the
quiet of old age, and dwell there more undisturbed, than in the turmoil
that comes before.”