It takes around 3-1/2 hours to get to Point Lobos from my house, so going there is not really any kind of exotic pilgrimage. Last week I rented a motel in Monterey for 2 nights in order to get some early morning and sunset pix.
In a way it’s too late. One is going to be forever chasing after Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Minor White and other luminaries, seeing the same rock formations, twisted cypresses and crashing surf just as they saw it, doomed to repeat the same compositions over and over again. High-key, black and white, color, close-ups, abstractions . . . all truly have been done before.
Withal, it’s a neat place, particularly with the sound of the surf in the background and a stiff sea breeze in your face. I was there to take some 10MP shots using the E-510 and my new 12-60 lens. Hopefully, I’ll be able to add some of the shots to my "for sale" portfolio. My goals were to take some sequenced, close-up rock pictures to be merged later in Photoshop. And, of course, some overall multi-photo panoramic shots, together with whatever I might happen to see while there.
The weather—almost—didn’t cooperate. Very bright and full of glare, especially during the middle of the day. There was one moment, though, towards Wednesday evening, when residual moisture in the atmosphere produced a series of vaporous low clouds drifting overhead and into the hills. After some quick shots in the rocks down by the surf’s edge I headed up into the bluffs for this three-photo panorama.
Photo: Clouds & Ocean—Point Lobos, 2008
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