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Playful Sea Lions at La Jolla Cove

2022/04/222022/01/16
California Sea Lion (Zalophus californianus) jumping into a breaking wave, La Jolla Cove, California; January 2022.

Photos from a morning visit to La Jolla Cove, where playful California Sea Lions jumped, dove and swam in the waves.

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Categories Photos Tags Animals, Coast, La Jolla, Wildlife 10 Comments

Rising Tide at Hospital Point

2021/10/28
Rising tide at the famous "potholes" of the tide pools of Hospital Point, La Jolla, California; October 2021.

Last Saturday, I went to La Jolla with my photo club, for dawn photos at the tide pools of Hospital Point — and the conditions were quite challenging!

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Categories Photos Tags Coast, Hospital Point, La Jolla, Long Exposure, Marine Layer, Seascape, Tide Pool 10 Comments

Don’t Disturb the Noise

2021/10/112021/10/11
Steel blue ocean at Ragged Point, Big Sur, California; August 2021.

“If my mind doesn’t go out to disturb the noise, the noise won’t disturb me” (Ajahn Chah)

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Categories Photos, Quotes, Trips & Travel Tags August 2021 Trip, Big Sur, Blue, Central Coast, Coast, Empty, Ocean, Seascape, Seeking Zen 15 Comments

Red Tide in San Diego, 2020

2021/09/102020/05/07
Venus is about the set over waves glowing blue from bioluminescent algae (red tide phenomenon). Solana Beach, California, May 2020.

Currently, we’re seeing a “red tide” algae bloom in San Diego. It’s a bit smelly and awful looking in the daytime (it smells of rotting trash and the ocean has a brownish color), but at night, when the breaking waves agitate the algae, they give off a somewhat eerie, blue glow, which is quite mesmerizing.

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Categories Photos Tags Cardiff by the Sea, Coast, Night Photography, Seascape Leave a comment

The Bluest Hour, Solana Beach

2021/05/232020/02/19
Tide pools of Tabletop Reef at the blue hour, South Cardiff State Beach, California

Long exposure seascapes at a very, very blue hour (three photos), and an bit of an aha moment about the camera position I ended up using for these images.

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Categories Photos Tags Blue, Cardiff by the Sea, Coast, Long Exposure, Seascape, Tabletop Reef 15 Comments

The First Sunset, Solana Beach

2022/02/152020/01/05
The first sunset of 2020 at the tide pools of Tabletop Reef, Solana Beach, California. January 2020.

Impressions from a visit to the Solana Beach tide pools for the first sunset of 2020.

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Categories Photos Tags Coast, Low Tide, Seascape, Sunset, Tabletop Reef, Tide Pool 6 Comments
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