I enjoyed your photoblog tonight. I was out Christmas morning and was also struck by the santas and factory and took a similar shot. I love this factory next to the water. It's so Oakland. You have a great eye. Thanks for sharing your photos.

Karen -- thanks! For a while the Santas were lying deflated across the boat's top which was even more surreal, but that didn't photograph quite as well :-). And yes, the whole scene is very Oakland... I walk past that factory every day -- It has a certain rhythm to the noise and movements that I know so well after all the years here.