This could also be titled: the Sutro Baths Engagement Session that almost wasn’t.
Carolyn, Robert and I met for some delicious cocktails and apps at Outerlands which serves delicious food sustainably sourced from local resources. It was a beautiful afternoon, sunny and warm, and we got to know each other, and their adorable pup, Khaleesi. Things did not go quite as planned, however, when we left, because all the sudden we realized that no one had a car key. Cue some scrambling on the street corner, some back and forth back to the restaurant, and some uncertainty as to the fate of the afternoon. Turns out, the key was in the car door and thankfully both it, and the car, were still there!
The Sutro Baths are a really incredible space that I had been wanting to photograph at for quite some time. Adolph Sutro developed the baths in Baths in 1894 but they were unfortunately never commercially viable. At one point, his family turned them into an ice skating rink. Eventually, there were plans to tear them down and build condos, but thankfully those plans never came to fruition. They were destroyed by a fire in 1966 and in the next decade they were adopted into the recreational area they are now apart of. In the evening at sunset, the baths are filled with folks watching the sunset, hiking, and tons of photographers and their clients taking advantage of the awesome and unique area.
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