When you live in the Cole Valley and Haight-Ashbury neighborhoods in San Francisco for a long time, you find yourself frequenting the same cafés, restaurants, shops, and bars. These are the spots you feel comfortable and, as the song goes, where everybody knows your name. You get to know the folks working at these spots and you even become friends. They do so much for all of us that I wanted to do something for them. This portrait series was my way of saying “Thank you.”