I love this portrait of my wife, taken at sunset near the Balboa Pier in Newport Beach a couple of days ago.
JMH - Newport Beach
JMH at the Beach
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Laguna Beach – November 21
I love the ethereal, other-worldliness of this image. It’s a photograph of a couple of fairly ordinary rocks, but the long exposure turns the rocks into mysterious islands shrouded in mist.
Rocks - Laguna Beach
Newport Beach – Dawn
Another early morning expedition down to the pier at Newport Beach. Saturday mornings are much busier than weekdays, but I arrived early enough to set up my camera and capture several images before the throngs of tourists and fishermen arrived.
Here is the pier, just before sunrise.
Newport Pier - Dawn
Newport Pier – Dawn
I was up and out early this morning to photograph the goings-on in and around the Newport Pier in Newport Beach, California. It was an overcast morning, so the line between sea and sky was diffuse, almost unrecognizable, which can make for interesting images. One of my favorite photographers, Hiroshi Sugimoto, has made a series of sensational seascapes using the blending of water and sky to great effect. This was a Sugimoto kind of day.
I arrived early enough to capture several long exposures before the sun came up and then stuck around to photograph the dawn surf patrol.
Newport Pier - Newport Beach, CA
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Newport Pier - Newport Beach, CA
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Solitary Surfer - Newport Beach, CA
Table Rock Beach – Laguna Beach, CA
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Crescent Bay – Night
A couple of images from a recent, very brief stop in Laguna Beach. These were long exposure images made at night, hence the milky white appearance of the breaking waves. In the first image, the waves look almost like clouds. It feels to me like a scene from a dream. The second photograph also feels slightly surreal… more like a Rothko painting than a photographic image.
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Longing
Main Beach – Corona del Mar
