I don’t like seagulls much, but this one did nothing offensive during the brief time we were together. Anyway there can’t always be pelicans.
Ocean with gull, in landscape mode.
Ocean with gull, in portrait mode.
These photos show a glimpse of beach at San Clemente, CA, where it is always this beautiful.
(This week’s Photo Challenge wants to see one image shot two ways.)
Readers of this blog with good memories know that I love pelicans. At the beach this weekend (San Clemente, CA – can’t you tell from the photo?) I managed to snap a fast-moving squadron as they passed overhead.
Pelicans flying fast.
One of the great treats about being alive and on this planet is getting to see the ocean at sunrise and sunset. I am always staggered by the number of different colors in the water. I’ve yet to get a photo that comes close to capturing it, but maybe that’s okay. Because I don’t have a photo I need to keep going back to see the real thing.
The full moon sets and the sun rises at Carlsbad Beach, San Diego County, California
(Posted for the latest Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Incoming surf overtops a sinuous retaining wall.
East Beach, Santa Barbara, at sunset
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Engine at the beach. What are the stories it could tell?
Just outside the surf, East Beach, Santa Barbara, CA
(Posted as part of the Weekly Photo Challenge.)
Before
So what do you see in this photo? Maybe a bearded guy sticking his tongue out?
Neil Young stage garb of the ’60s?
How about this one? Lunar landscape or medical close-up?
Ocean running downhill.
Sea wall.
Ocean running uphill.
Sunset in the underwater world!
As glimpsed at East Beach, Santa Barbara, CA, Jan 2013
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