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This past week – Sept 21

The weather has started to turn cooler, and with it the summer crowds are lightening up. I've been spending some time between Central California and home, painting a lot of fruits and vegetables and burning lots of film at Doheny. It's fun to shoot blind and wonder if you're really…
September 21, 2025
Ocean side moments near homePhotography

Ocean side moments near home

Sharing a few detailed moments from the beach near home. One of our go-to beaches is steep, and when the tide and swell combine lots of mini sea debris gets deposited in the sand. Tiny shells, sea glass, and smoothed over stones sit in a vein running north to south…
March 1, 2024
Last light at Salt CreekPhotography

Last light at Salt Creek

A seagull mimics the flight of a passing surfer at Salt Creek beach in Dana Point.
November 22, 2023
Under the LipPhotography

Under the Lip

Dana Shaw tucking under an offshore lip near Lincoln Boulevard at Ocean Beach on Thanksgiving morning. Ocean Beach is seemingly always good on Thanksgiving -- in the 15 years I lived there I can remember 10+ Thanksgiving Days full of good surf. Sometimes in the shoulder high range seen here,…
November 21, 2023
A trip up northTravel

A trip up north

My parents recently sold our childhood home, so I packed up the wife and kid (and dog) and we ventured north to revisit past memories and make some new ones. We dipped into the City and continued further north to reconnect with the natural world around Lake Shasta. Waterfalls, glacial…
September 19, 2023
Large Ocean Beach on an overcast day.Photography

Large Ocean Beach on an overcast day.

Large Ocean Beach on an overcast day. I wonder, how many normal people stop to take in this site in top of the hill? Do they even notice how special this is?
February 11, 2022