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 getting anything, and it’s almost time to ship another pack to Photoworks.
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 along the beach. Finding the interesting bits and pieces takes a leisurely pace and a patient eye, but it’s fun to assemble a little collection before leaving it behind for the next person to find.
I also found an interesting bit of sand erosion creating a miniature plateau. The creek diverted up the beach and eroded the west side bank into various sand-forms. Regular visits to the beach change your perspective on time and change. To the visitor a beach is a beach, but to the regular there are so many individual changes that are worth paying attention to.
A seagull mimics the flight of a passing surfer at Salt Creek beach in Dana Point.
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 melt, red clay, railroad towns where my grandparents lived — all a welcome change from the I-5/405 brain scramble. A few select visions from north of the Golden Gate attached.
A recent collection of textures from around the neighborhood.
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?
