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Tag: Garrapata Beach

Elusive Light, Garrapata Beach

This is another shot from an outing with Patrick Smith to the Big Sur where we witnessed what probably was the best light of the season. The color was changing every minute in different parts of the sky and we had to be aware of what was going by taking our eyes off the viewfinder. [...]

Wave Stoppers, Garrapata Beach

I still have a few more photos left to post from the previous outings to the Big Sur in the past few weeks, so here is another one. I have a feeling that our winter is now over and we’re slowly entering a period of boredom when weeks pass by without a cloud in the [...]

Trio, Garrapata Beach

And yet another photo from the Garrapata Beach. Do you think I like this beach? Before the winter began I set a goal to build a winter set from a spot or several spots around the Big Sur area. It just happened that this place turned out to be Garrapata Beach, a place I visited [...]

Respect for the Ocean – Garrapata Beach

I’m really slow processing the photos from that night, because I’m still bitter about that evening. The evening at Garrapata Beach at Big Sur was going fine. Beautiful light, no wind, big waves (it was the day before the Mavericks competition took place), no one but me and a few teenagers at the beach. What [...]

Garrapata Blue

Some shots get you really into the scene, like this one. Last Sunday was another cloudy post-stormy day here in Northern California, and I met up with Jim Patterson and Kendra back at Garrapata Beach. This time around it was a negative tide, so many layers of sand were gone, revealing all kinds of big [...]