Ocean Swells and Fog. Pacific Ocean south of San Francisco, California. January 12, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

This is one in a series of minimalist ocean photographs that I’m working on.

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Pacific Surf, Winter. South of San Francisco, California. January 12, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

A rugged section of the California Pacific coast south of San Francisco on a winter day with huge surf. Shooting this one was fun – I stopped amost randomly near this spot and carried my gear across a mostly untracked meadow to the top of these cliffs.

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Wave, Fog, and Reflected Light – Pacific Ocean. South of San Francisco, California. January 12, 2008. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

I photographed this wave and the ocean receding into sunlit coastal clouds and fog along the Pacific coast between Santa Cruz and San Francisco – on the day of the Mavericks Surf competition a bit further up the coast.

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Birds, Rocks, and Surf at Dusk. Point Lobos State Park, California. December 30, 2007. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell.

One more from the End of 2007 Point Lobos Series. That line of shore birds was very obliging to fly into the frame behind the rock so close to the horizon as if on cue. (I made several exposures of this scene, and I am starting to like another version better.)

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