Photographer Ivan Makarov recently emailed to let me know about an beach cleanup and photography event at Panther Beach on the Pacific Coast north of Santa Cruz. (Ivan, I have shot at Panther Beach – this past winter – and it is a really wonderful location! Proof below… ;-) Follow the link for more information.
Last Light, Panther Beach. Pacific Ocean North of Santa Cruz, California. January 11, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Pacific Ocean, Beach, Evening Panorama. North of Santa Cruz, California. January 11, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Panoramic photograph of a Pacific coast beach at sunset with one small figure on the beach.
Like one of the other photographs in this series that I posted earlier, this was made from the top of the bluff near the thin extension across the beach where a natural bridge is found. I waited for an interesting set of waves to come in and for the right number of people (one!) to be on the beach and in the scene. The small figure standing at the end of the patch of rocks on the beach near the right side of the frame is another photographer who eventually made his way out onto the rocks where the wave is crashing to shoot close-ups of the surf. Conditions were a bit odd on this evening. January is, obviously, in the middle of winter – but this scene looks almost like summer, and it felt like summer as we were having unusually warm conditions.
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Boulders, Beach, Twilight. North of Santa Cruz, California. January 11, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Large surf-worn boulders near the waterline in the twilight – south of Santa Cruz, California.
Just after the sun dropped below the horizon, I passed through a “natural bridge” between the two sections of the beach and came out on the south side by these two large boulders set in the sand. I used a 35mm prime and positioned the camera quite close to the boulder on the left to get this shot, pausing long enough to let people in brightly colored clothes walk through the scene before making my long exposure. (In one frame there is a very interesting smear or color passing behind the rock! :-)
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Cliffs, Sand, and Surf. North of Santa Cruz, California. January 11, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Late sun illuminates sand, cliffs, and surf near Santa Cruz, California.
I suppose I must count myself lucky for living in a place where I get head to out in the late afternoon for the coast, wander around on the beach shooting photographs of scenes like this as the sun drops toward the horizon… and be home in time for dinner. :-)
Another in what will be a series of perhaps a half dozen photographs from this spot north of Santa Cruz, California, where I photographed this past weekend. In this photograph the sun is dropping beyond the horizon and the very last light is hitting the beach in the center foreground.
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