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I went down to Huntington Beach to do some timelapse video's with my GoPro of the crowds around there. I also brought one of my cameras along for the ride just in case the sunset was good, though that wasn't my focus. As it was getting too dark to video anymore as the sun was setting, I took the...

My romance with the fog had several moments of breaking up last night at Huntington Beach. In a normal relationship, that would cause heartache, in my case it got me excited! :) Now I know @AlanLichty might think I am a bit crazy as he has dealt with 10 lifetimes of fog, and probably gets...

I went out to do timelapses at Huntington Beach California on January 1st, but couldn't resist a few still photos too. :) The timelapse in located in the Video Forum, as more of us are doing timelapses now, please add the Video Forum to your daily viewing habits as it will be very encouraging...

I am back in California for a few weeks so I could not resist going down to the beach at Sunset! It had been clear blue skies all day, but about 2 hours before sunset, a few clouds started to roll in, so I thought I better get down to Huntington Beach. With Ben and I working on doing Timelapses...

In the local hills that I run in, I have been watching the wildflowers slowly pick up and make their display. These are not very impressive flowers, nothing exotic, but they do cover an area really well. So on Friday when I ran, though it was still a bit stormy out, I made sure to run with the...

Another shot from a few weeks ago at Woods Cove in Laguna Beach California. The clouds were a bit heavy on the horizon, the sunset never turned Nuclear but it still produced some nice color I thought. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is a kind of large Sea Cave, but not a very deep cave at Woods Cove in Laguna Beach. I didn't use any lighting in this, the Nikon D850 is just really great at Shadow Recovery which makes it so useful for these shooting locations. Due to the higher tide there wasn't anyone congregating in...

Out at Venice Beach, California last weekend I was heading away from the side show sidewalk area and down to the beach. There was this berm I spotted where it would silhouette people with the almost setting sun in front. I thought there were a lot of stories here. I initially composed it with...

I went to Venice Beach in California last Sunday, mainly to see a few unusual people and do some Street Photography. But fortunately for me, the partly cloudy forecast held and I got some really sweet sunset photography in too. I don't get to Venice Beach very often as it's an hour drive or more...

From a few months ago when the hills near the beaches in SoCal were blooming with wildflowers. I was out trail running with my D850 which might seem a bit odd, but hey I knew the flowers were great and I didn't mind stopping a time or two to get some shots. :rolleyes: When I saw these mushroom...

This is a more typical shot from Huntington Beach. This is from a week or so ago, there was some really nice waves coming in. All comments are welcome, Jim

A few weeks ago from down at Huntington Beach California. I was focusing on the waves, but the oil rigs kept getting in the way. One nice thing when there is limited visibility is that the rigs tend to disappear on the horizon. And they can be avoided for the most part with careful composing...

I was at Huntington Beach in California on Tuesday evening and there was a nice spattering of clouds in the sky as sunset approached. But behind the clouds I saw these other cyan colored thin clouds. I am thinking that they are the left over from a rocket launch. That does happen on a regular...

After the sun had set at Huntington Beach and the lights turned on at the pier there was still some cool looking clouds being lit up and the atmospherics were pretty cool I thought. I liked from this position how the reflection of the Life Guard station was being framed by the incoming water...

It was really overcast late yesterday at Huntington Beach, the bland gray clouds that we normally get in SoCal filled the sky. But as I went to run I threw the Sony A6400 with the 18-135mm over my shoulder just in case. I didn't get too far in my running before the clouds started to open up...

I took these yesterday afternoon at a local area that I trail run in. I haven't been to this spot in Fullerton California since the wildflowers took off, but knowing the area I figured and hoped there would be some wildflowers going, and man was there. It was another great chance to play with...

This was last night at the Huntington Beach Pier. I almost wasn't able to get in there to run since there was some kind of car show at the large main parking lot and the place was packed. I was able to find parking fortunately closer to the pier since it was almost sunset and people were...

From this last week at the San Gabriel mountains here in Southern California. There is a pair of nesting bald eagles there with 2 young bald eagles that hatched a while back. Thanks to a kind photographer Annie (who joined the FocalWorld too) I made a few adjustments to my camera to better shoot...

This is back from a couple of weeks ago at Little Corona Beach in SoCal. The wind was pretty windy that evening and it was blowing the tide surges even more then normal it seemed. In this one, I may have had to wipe off water drops from the lens after it was done. :rolleyes: All comments are...

It was truly amazing to see the southern end of Joshua Tree so completely carpeted with wildflowers, so much so I drove out there 3 times to shoot them with this being from the final evening last Sunday. The wildflowers were so thick that even as I took extreme care as I moved about in them my...