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Watch These Videos and Decide: Is This The Best of San Francisco?

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Update: Brant Ozanich has nominated this video by his relative, Dylan Ozanich, in our "best of San Francisco" contest. "Here's what I think is a pretty good take on a early 20-something's life in a SF," he writes. "Not quite as detailed as the other video, but there sure is 'grittier' parts than just the touristic spots":

The City from Dylan Ozanich on Vimeo.

Original Post: Sail boats slide under the Golden Gate. A cable car turns. A flower blooms in front of City Hall. In a new video, Jeremy Williams offers this valentine to the City of San Francisco. "I captured 30,000 photos over ten months of everything I love about San Francisco," he wrote in his YouTube caption. "The end result required 750 hours of rendering to generate 62 tilt shift timelapse sequences."

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Right away some users on the social media site Reddit raised their eyebrows. "The best parts of SF are not near downtown," wrote a user called someone-do-something.

It's true that the zanier and grittier parts of the city aren't featured here. Williams apparently isn't a fan of celebrations like Critical Mass, for example.

A sample of the color in the Critical Mass ride of 2012 (Cristiano Valli)

Still, 91 percent of Reddit users gave the video thumbs up.

For the sake of competition, here's a wider ranging "Best of San Francisco" post-card slideshow:

So what's your opinion? Has anyone come closer to capturing this town in a web video? Send your nominations to lharrison@kqed.org.

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