The October 2008 photograph for the Twelve Images of 2008 comes from a trip out to San Francisco, Napa and Sacramento during October.  Mixing some time away with business I was able to photograph for stock as well as some clients during the trip.  While in the Bay Area for a few days visiting my sister and her family, I headed into San Francisco via BART on two of the days and just photographed on the street.  As I had a tilt-shift lens with me the majority of the images taken on the first of the two days was with this lens as shown in the image below.

The tilt-shift lens lets you control the focal plane of the camera different than with a normal lens.  This lens is commonly used for architecture in order to remove any converging lines you may get when photographing a building from below.  In this instance I used the features of the lens to provide some selective focus for this cable car waiting to be turned around and head back to Market Street.