Photography

CEE’S BLACK & WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE: BUILDINGS

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I love this stretch of coast.  It can get pretty wild at high tide and quite tame at low tide.  Late afternoon I took my camera for a walk.  In case you missed it, yesterday I shot big surf video at the pier and challenged the camera’s reputation for being slash proof.  It worked fine today for both stills and HD Video.

We call this area Boat Docks.  Is sits at the base of an area called Pedro Point.   It’s one of my favorite buildings in town.  Today, toward sunset, the tide was low and returning.  Gulls bathed in the fresh water from San Pedro Valley Creek as it emptied into the Pacific.  This morning, at high tide, I would have been standing in 3 feet of water taking this shot.

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Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Buildings

Write Here Write Now

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The wind is up, my hands are dry. I’m cold.  There’s a solitary paddle boarder on the water who looks like a spec without binoculars.  portrait landscapes-1000049

The second shot is a little closer.  The paddleboarder is just left of the pump house at the far right of the parking lot.  He looks like a slender stick in the water.

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With the zoom as far as it goes, the paddle is visible, but where are the waves?

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I plan to go out and get a few shots, but later, when I’m warm, when the tide is out.  For now, I like it Write Here, Write Now.

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Near Solstice Light

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File Dec 17, 7 56 09 PMWinter solstice is right around the corner and the late afternoon light is kind of errie.

My cold/flu/virus/tired-to-the-bone “whatever it is” seems to be waning.  So I walked the 3/4 of a mile to the spot where I’d seen one stand up paddle boarder from my window.  He was still there.

The tide was just starting to ebb so some of the wave’s punch was pulled back.  BUT, there were surfers from one end of the beach to the other.  The light kept slipping in and out of the clouds.  One moment it was on the water, then on the hills, then gone.  I sat on a piece of plywood someone had left on the rocks.  I didn’t take the time to anchor it so I teetered and tottered a bit, which makes shooting video with a long lens a challenge.  There was one guy on a fat orange board who caught one wave while I was watching.  Mostly I was happy to smell the salt air and hear the hollow roar of waves crashing.

I got one shot of the scene as the light lit up the Rockaway Headlands.  That was the last of the light, so I headed home.

CEE’S BLACK & WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE: FARAWAY

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We visited Peru a few years back and made two stops in Cusco.  At 13,000 feet it takes your breath away.  Then there’s the mountains above Cusco; higher and mightier.  At the end of our stay we had the lungs to hike the hills and got above the city.

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Cusco, Peru

The fog played around Machu Picchu, sometimes obscuring it and sometimes framing it.

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Machu Picchu

 

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Faraway