Ivan Makarov Blog

Here is another photo from the beautiful Panther Beach where we are organizing a clean up this coming Sunday. For all details, please see my previous post.

As we were on our way out from Panther Beach where I shot recently together with Jim Patterson, I decided to take one more shot. The winds were strong and waves unpredictable (which always makes long exposures a bit tricky), so I decided to protect myself by hiding behind the rock, which turned out to [...]

Here is a more traditional view of the the James ‘Sunny Jim’ Rolph Bridge, aka the Bay Bridge, taken on Embarcadero walkway right before sun appeared. It was a good place to start a day. After trying shots at longer exposures when water is smooth and shorter exposures when waves are frozen in time, I [...]

On our last visit to Hawaii in November of 2007, we were lucky to stay with relatives of my wife who live right on the beach in in Kailua, on the island of Oahu. This was a view from their backyard, and I’m not kidding. All I had to do to capture this was to [...]

Point Lobos is one of my favorite places on Earth and I could not pass up on including this photo in my portfolio. I first visited it in 2000 during my first visit to the United States and it left a lasting impression on me. The luck had it that one day I would live [...]

McWay Waterfall is one of the few waterfalls in the world that empties directly into the ocean. Also, because of the waves constantly moving the sand, there is no usual pool of water underneath it. While this is one of the more photographed spots along the Big Sur coast in Central California, it is typically [...]

“Luck is what makes photography an entirely different medium from art forms based only on planned creative acts.” — Galen Rowell I believe luck is an important part of photography, and this image shows exactly why. I actually didn’t know I had this shot in my collection for almost two months afterI took it. I [...]