These are all images made at Point Lobos State Reserve just south of Carmel, California. I am collecting them here even though they are also shown in other albums, to show what can be done at Pt. Lobos
Shot from the Info Station parking lot. I've always thought this rock looks like a bear, but Ranger Chuck Bancroft says it is a camel.
It was a foggy day as I was practicing with my new D70 on the Cypress Point Trail. I like the dark background.
Made on the Sea Lion Point Trail a few steps from the parking lot. The same cypress (on South Point) as the shot of the cypress in fog. I went here many times before I got a decent background and a clear foreground.
This shot is pretty straight except that there were only two pelicans in the original so I added some from another shot. The cypress in the background is in two other shots in this group as well.
One of the first pictures I made at Weston Beach when I got serious about photography in 1998. I modified it a bit recently to improve the composition
Hillichnus lobosensis, the fossil trace of a burrowing clamlike animal. In the past people thought it was a fossil seaweed, but it was recently shown to be an animal trace....
On the Cypress Point Trail at Pt. Lobos. Not to be confused with Spanish moss, although from a distance the amateur can't tell the difference.
Made at Weston Beach. I saw that one frond had been swept away, leaving a nice contrasting color
Made on a bright sunny day from a spot near the Bird Island parking lot at Pt. Lobos. I used crossed polarizers as an ND filter to reduce the light to the point where I had a 5 second exposure.
Off the South Shore Trail. I had to remove a lot of distractions from this one.
The best shot I have made of Pinnacle Rock, and, to be honest, the best I have seen. Made just after I led a nature walk there and spotted the foreground flowers. (Thrift and Seaside painted cups.)...
Briza maxima, not native. It is grown as an ornamental, called Quaking grass in England. Very plentiful at Pt. Lobos.
I was practicing with my new wide-angle lens and made this, which seems to be a good example of what such a lens is good for. It was hand-held.
I was practicing with my new D70 and started up the Bird Island Trail when I saw this Harbor seal posing in front of a flock of Brandt's cormorants. Notice the cormorant flapping its wings in the water on the right.
There are about two weeks near the end of October when Point Lobos is open at sunset. I chose this as a foreground and spent several evenings trying to get a good sunset. This was the best I was able to do.
Green (yes, green!) algae on the Cypress Point Trail at Pt. Lobos. The orange is carotene. This is the best shot I have made of it in years of trying. Very hard to get a good composition.
This shows the two forms of the green alga Trentepohlia on a log on the Cypress Point Trail
This shows the two forms of the green alga Trentepohlia on a log on the Cypress Point Trail
This is Hidden Beach. I used two images, one for the foreground and one for the sky, and superposed them with Layers.
