Forget that Corona on the white-sand-clear-water-with-a-lime-wedge-on-top vision. Beers on the beach are better under the deep marine layer emanating from the cold California current. A bit of stew, a Sierra Nevada and the fall weather of Half Moon Bay. All those suckers up in the Ritz-Carlton, playing golf and sitting in the four-star restaurant were...
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Once I took photographs of Mishigami locked in ice, with the great temples of commerce on the horizon. Now the waters that lap my tripod bathe towers of stone and the next city is hidden below the Earth’s gentle curve. By the sea’s ceaseless churn, those monoliths are a beach yet to be made. Photo...
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Today’s photograph is a fabulous one that my wife took on the beach along The Great Highway, just south of Cliff House. You can see what are called the Seal Rocks in the background. She made a photograph with a huge seagull that was following us around. Her and I photograph in very different ways,...
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I thought I’d put the “Alt Perspective” piece I did for Brian up for today’s post. At the end I’ve also included two entries by Dave Weglarz for the tWp workshop contest – check out some of the cool images he made during our stint on North Ave Beach! “I’m a career scientist and an...
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My last weekend in Chicago is half done. What a whirlwind the past month has been – with the exception of the workshops, I’ve done little to no photography (well the workshops and a visit to the newly arrived niece!). I wanted to go out with a bang, and I saved this image for the...

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