This is the last post about my recent trip to Marina Del Rey. As the sun was setting, we noticed that the sailboats passing before the sun had amazing silhouettes. “Yacht Silhouette II” Marina Del Rey, CA ISO 100, 146 mm, 1/2500 s at f/5.6 Of course I knew that the character of light changes [...]
Categories: Locations
Tagged: Los Angeles, Sailboats, Sunset, Water
After the big storms in California two weeks ago, I was hoping to see some great sunsets in the Malibu area, so I headed out to El Matador State Beach. It was a bit hard to find: the sign along the Pacific Coast Highway only says ‘Coastal Access’, but this beach is well worth the [...]
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In December I went to San Francisco for a week, for the yearly AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting. Five days of meetings, talks and posters with 17,000 other geophysicists. Yes – crazy. Fortunately I was able to go into town for a couple of hours to (temporarily) satisfy my photography hunger. This time I [...]
Categories: Locations
Tagged: San Francisco, Sunset, Water
This Saturday, a storm was moving in over Southern California from the Pacific, bringing the first snow to the local mountains. Well – a dusting; not quite the snow storm yet. A storm over the Los Angeles basin can often clear the skies and create great cloud scenes. The hope for clear skies was not [...]
Categories: Locations
Tagged: Los Angeles, Sunset
This is the last post to highlight the photography work I did before I started this blog. In October, I went to Venice Beach with my friend Alejandro. Venice Beach is a unicum in many ways, most of all because of the people. In this outing I wanted to capture that. See the Urban Landscape [...]
Categories: Locations
Tagged: Beach, Los Angeles, Portrait, Sunset, Water