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With the rare snowfall in Joshua Tree as described in my previous post I had found the clouds opening up and allowing the stars to shine through. This classic composition kind of felt like it was a gateway to the stars for me. While I never mind sharing a location with someone, it was pretty...

Snow in Joshua Tree National Park! :) Who would have thought? I know it does snow there every 5 or 6 years, but it's been well over 20 years I think since I have been out there in the snow. It was a fun and fast overnight trip. As I already posted, I ran up there in time to catch the sunset...

It's sure been a windy place in California, at least in SoCal over the last week. I ran to the beach a couple of nights last week as the clouds were looking cool. In this case the tide wasn't supposed to be this high, but the extreme high winds seemed to be pushing the waves closer to shore and...

Sunny clued me in on this spot, it's up in the San Gabriel Mountains here in Southern California. I was shocked to hear we had wild Bald Eagles in SoCal. I am surrounded basically by hundreds of miles of houses and buildings here, so I would never have guessed we had a pair of Bald Eagles so...

Even though I had just gotten back from 3 weeks on the road in Colorado and New Mexico when I saw that the rain could stop just before sunset, I took the chance and ran down to Little Corona Beach here in SoCal. I got there 30 minutes before sunset and I was still using the windshield wipers on...

In Little Corona in Corona Del Mar by Newport Beach in California, as the sun dipped below the horizon this really cool crepuscular display occurred. It doesn't seem to show up here as well as I saw it in person, I moved from where I was shooting to center the display in the gap between the sea...

Yesterday late afternoon as I was trail running in the hills above Newport, I saw that despite the forecast for clear skies that there was some clouds along the horizon. So I headed to Little Corona in Corona Del Mar which is just a hop skip and a jump away from where I was running just before...

Alan will like this one! :) This is from Bolsa Chica Wetlands looking across to the Bolsa Chica State Beach. This was with the Tamron 150-600mm on the Nikon D850 in crop mode at 260mm at a distance of a 1/4 to 1/2 mile away. I could have switched to full frame mode, but then I would have had to...

One from the archives from Little Corona in Southern California. All comments are welcome, Jim

This guy seemed to have a few friends hanging around as he surveyed his work scene. :) An archive shot from Huntington Beach California that has me missing the beach while I am here in New Mexico. :confused: All comments are welcome, Jim

One from a few years back that I have finally processed... :eek: This is in Huntington Beach California and the seagulls were flocking around like this was the Birds movie by Alfred Hitchcock. All comments are welcome, Jim

A couple of shots from Laguna Beach and down by the Montage Hotel area. When the tide gets high enough the water seems to spout out against the rocks. All comments are welcome, Jim

This is from a few years back in Huntington Beach California. I have been going back through my archives lately looking for images I have skipped over or last track of, and this is one I had found that I liked. The way the clouds flowed through the image really struck as being cool. All...

Another one from last Friday shooting with Dave (Thorhammer) in Long Beach California. I was really happy with how this turned out the VR worked great since I was shooting at 80mm at 1/20th of a sec on the Nikon 24-120mm. All comments are welcome, Jim

From Little Corona in SoCal, this is an archive shot from testing out my D800 when I first got it. I liked the color version, but as I looked at it today, I thought it might have potential as a B&W, so here it is. :) All comments are welcome, Jim

The title is probably too much an attempt at cuteness. :rolleyes: I met up with JohnC this morning at Startbucks, had a nice chat with him. One of the things brought up was that he was looking to get some shots of Huntington Beach Pier with some sunset colors. So... that of course sent me...

One from a while back from Huntington Beach California. There was no clouds to be had at sunset, but for whatever the reason as the sun was getting close to setting the lower horizon turned this really cool orange. So I worked the orange glow for a while. It's one of those times that impressed...

Well, this isn't really the sea, it's the ocean, but the title was what came to mind, The series of wave splashes looked like cymbals clashing. This is from Woods Cove in Laguna Beach from a few weeks ago. The symphony was hitting on all of the right notes. All comments are welcome, Jim

Well, I found it at Treasure Island in Laguna Beach. This is a fun little area, not far from a fancy hotel so if you don't like lot's of people, this won't be the place for you. But it's still a fun area and one where you can get isolated shots pretty easily. The tide is the key as in a lot of...

This is from Laguna Beach the other day. In between shooting the mini Thors Well there I saw this outcropping a little ways out in the water that was having a really cool pour off occurring. In fact it would totally disappear under the water as the incoming waves hit it. All comments are...