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Abandoned Davenport Pier, Davenport, California.

Big thanks goes to my buddy Jim Patterson, who faithfully geo-tags all his photos, for helping me find this location. BlackStar GPS app for my Blackberry also comes handy (I’ll review it in my next post), as now I can get exact coordinates for all my photos or pre-map the locations before I head of of the house.

Having no photos I was happy with to submit to Flickr 64 Challenge, a contest where you are paired up in against other photographers in March Madness style (I’m was actually in the final – I have no idea how that happened), I woke up early on Saturday and headed to the Pacific Coast. In the summers that typically means fog, but I decided to deal with it anyway and focus on minimalistic composition. The fog was coupled with smoke from the nearby Santa Cruz fires, but the beach was completely empty, which is always a photographer’s dream.

A hike to get to this place is actually very steep, and I kept telling myself not to look down. Time to upgrade my hiking shoes.

http://aegallerie.com Ed

This is an absolutely stunning photograph. I hope I can achieve this level of composition and tone in the future. I especially like the way the eye is drawn continually along the length of the would be pier, and the way the horizon is blurred by the merging of the fog and smoke.
http://vivekthakyal.blogspot.com/ Vivek Thakyal

This photograph is beyond awesome. Perfect composition, it has a dreamy feel to it.

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