Pismo Beach, in black and white

Last week my best friend and I took a walk on the beach with the intent of getting some great landscape photos for my mom to hang in her new office.... sadly the marine layer was extremely thick, and due to an operator error on my camera a lot of the photos I took were seriously blurry (lessons learned people, if the image is blurry AND your lens is clean, your camera MAY possibly in the wrong setting for the scene).  Out of the 30+ I took that night, these were the best.

I feel like the black and white made the details pop so much better than the color images.  In color they looked dreary and sad because the lighting was depressing, but in black and white they look so much more alive.

Photo Date with the Bestie

On Saturday March 16th my BFF and I took my new camera out for a test drive along the central coast. We started out with picking up some picnic goods at DePalo & Son's deli in Shell Beach (it's off Spyglass if you haven't been there before, it's not inexpensive, but what you give up in dollars you get back in taste), took our tasty treats to Chamisal Vineyards, did a little wine tasting, had a picnic, then broke out our cameras and started snapping. We also went to Biddle Park in Arroyo Grande, and the train tracks in Oceano. I posted a few of my favorites here. Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I enjoyed taking them.