Dear readers,
As always, welcome and thanks for visiting Poached Egg Quest!
I just finished celebrating one year anniversary of this little adventure in writing and photography (Poached Egg turned one year old this past April 🙂 ) and was pondering what is going to be the next step for this project. I came to the realization that addition of little video segments may be something interesting for everyone to see.
Not quite sure how this will go, but let’s see. You will be the judge.
Before moving further I must give you some context.
I recently bought Sony A7-ii, which is much anticipated follow up to Sony’s mirrorless full-frame camera–A7–that was introduced couple years back. A7-ii has some cool revamp to the previous model including mighty 5-axis in-camera image stabilization which opened whole new possibilities in video recording and I am pretty enthralled by it.
So that’s the basic idea how I came about this new direction in video.
I am now in full action to shoot videos along with my usual drill with still photos! This is rather exciting news as some of you may know, I am coming from video/film production background and have been neglecting on my passion in videography for long while. Now I have a great companion in my hands to take the quest to next level. I am stoked, and I hope you are too 🙂
So what you should expect to see?
Good question.
Starting this post, you will start to see “video type” posts featuring short clips that capture the atmosphere of place, event, people, community, and activity around the world… starting from the humble beginning at my doorsteps in San Francisco. Each segment of video will put focus on one of the elements mentioned above.
Stay tuned and you will be in the know of many exciting things happening around San Francisco Bay Area and beyond — doesn’t that sound fun?
As for the first part of the series (tadaa!) I already choose the best one… Here it goes.
#001 – Stonestown Farmers Market (San Francisco, CA)
Location: Stonestown Galleria
When: Sunday 9am – 1pm, Year Round
Map:
Website
When I first moved to San Francisco in the summer of 2013, I was so new to the farmers market culture and this city’s communal sense of responsibility in sustainable living. Especially, moving from larger cities like Los Angeles and London the expenditure of resources seemed rather natural part of living and abundance of supplies often disillusioned me into excess. 
In all frankness, it took a while for me to get used to the 25 cent charge on paper bags at grocery store and I was not very keen on buying local craft over giant corporate supply and justify the extra bucks spent on ‘organic’ goods. Although I am still not 100% sold on the whole idea (the idea of paying more particularly), now I can kind of see how the positive aspects of making such choice exist. I think not many other cities in US offer these options to people or even make people aware of it at all.
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The first time I’ve visited Stonestown Farmers Market, which is located just 5 minutes drive away from my previous home, made me realize what the city of San Francisco is made of. This city truly knows the meaning of phrase “quality over quantity” and markets are overflowing with fresh-from-farm quality products. All the local farmers at the market has pride in their products and really assuring to think you are buying something that you know it was grown with care.
Stonestown Farmers Market takes place in the parking lot behind the massive shopping galleria right off 19th Avenue (gateway to State Route 1) and Winston Drive. Every Sunday morning from 9am until 1pm, people from all around San Francisco come here with tote bag and hungry stomach to buy fresh fruits, vegetables, poultry, eggs, honey, and other local crafts as they sample through berries and peaches along the way. There are also live music performers on site to entertain the people enjoying flavorful Indian curry, ramen, rotisserie chicken, and banh mi sandwich bought from the local vendors.
The market also has inflated playhouse for kids, and cool coffee stand called Gaga Coffee that drips some delicious pour over. This is place not only to sort out your grocery list, but it is also a place for wonderful pastime with friends and family. Even on the day with overcast foggy weather this place always offers vivid colors and liveliness of San Francisco’s cultural legacy. [end]
（日本語）
このシリーズではちいさなビデオクリップと共に日々の中での発見とサンフランシスコのおすすめを紹介していきます。
第一弾の今回はSonestown Farmers Marketの紹介をします。
まずはビデオをどうぞ。
サンフランシスコの郊外、サンセット地区の南にあるStonestown Galleriaでは毎週日曜日の朝から昼にかけて市場が催されます。
ここでは地元の農場で栽培飼育された野菜や果物、肉や卵などはもちろん、他にも地元の業者の方々が作った料理や石鹸などを買うことが出来ます。こういうイベントが年中とおしてあるというのも農業が盛んな北カリフォルニアならではですが、もやもやと霧がかった日や雨の日でも決行するまさに自然と一体化したイベントなのです！
ビデオの背景に流れる東洋風の弦楽器の音色は、先週この市場で演奏していた（おそらく）中国人のアーティストによるものです。こういうアジアン的なアートが自然と場を彩っているのもアジア人口の多いサンフランシスコならではですね。
場所へのアクセスはバスか電車が便利です。Daly CityのBARTの駅から28番のバスをFort Mason（北）に向かって乗り、Winston Driveの大きなモールのところで降りればそこから徒歩で8分ほどです。
もやもやと霧の多いサンセット地区ですが、曇り空にも負けないくらいカラフルで活気のある市場の雰囲気を是非一度味わってみてください！