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Tabletop Reef

Tabletop Reef is a rock structure at the southern end of South Cardiff State Beach/Seaside State Beach. I guess it is one of the places that I visit and photograph most frequently when taking walks at the beach with our dog, Toni. This archive gives you an overview of what it looks like through the seasons and over the years.

Tide Pool Details Triptych

2023/01/082023/01/01
Detail of the Tabletop Reef tide pools, Solana Beach, California; December 2022.

The first blog post of 2023 has the last photos I made in 2022 — in the morning of December 31st, we went for a walk at the beach. It was drizzly and overcast and I didn’t bring the big camera, but as usual, once there some things were too intriguing to not make a photo of them.

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Categories Small Set Tags Close-Up, Coast, Mobile Art, Tabletop Reef, Triptych 6 Comments

A Long Lens at the Beach

2022/11/23
Colorful clouds showing some iridescence right after sunset against a calm blue ocean, Solana Beach, California; November 2022.

Sunday we went for a late afternoon walk at the beach, hoping to make a few photos of birds in flight for my photo club’s monthly “Photo Quest”. Since I’m running this photo quest and came up with the theme, I’d better get a photo for it!

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Categories Photos Tags Animals, Birds, Close-Up, Coast, Tabletop Reef, Wildlife 8 Comments

Weight of Summer, Premonition

2022/07/252021/09/27
The sun briefly appears as a faint red dot over the horizon. Tabletop Reef tide pools, Solana Beach, California; September 2021.

Last Friday, a storm system brought lightning, thunder and a little bit of rain to San Diego again. This isn’t entirely unusual, but this year’s amount of summer storms that actually reach the coastal areas of the county is higher than what I’ve experienced in the past.

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Categories Photos Tags Long Exposure, Low Tide, Seascape, Sunset, Tabletop Reef, Tide Pool 11 Comments

Light

2022/01/202020/09/10
Twilight sky glows over the tide pools of Tabletop Reef, Solana Beach, California; October 2011.

“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” (George Eastman)

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Categories Quotes Tags Cardiff by the Sea, Seascape, Sunset, Tabletop Reef 4 Comments

The Bluest Hour, Solana Beach

2021/05/232020/02/19
Tide pools of Tabletop Reef at the blue hour, South Cardiff State Beach, California; December 2019.

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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  • Galleries
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    • Plant Portraits
    • Native Flowers & Plants in San Diego County
  • Weblog
    • Latest
    • Quotes
    • Lightroom
  • Services
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    • Photo Discussion & Critique
    • Lightroom Tutoring & Help
    • Talks, Teaching, Judging, etc.
    • Real Estate Photography
  • Photo Archive
    • Overview & Search
    • Abstract
    • Close-Up/Macro
    • Desert
    • Intimate
    • Landscape
    • Miscellaneous
    • Mountains
    • Plants
    • Sea & Coast
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    • Water
    • Wildlife
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    • Alexander
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