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.

Central Coast Winter

This weekend I was stir crazy and was about to jump out of my own skin... so where better to go to reclaim my inner peace than the beach. This place has been my home away from home since I got my driver's license at 16... maybe longer, I was a baby beach bunny too.

The ocean is my  favorite place to take photos, and I'm also learning how to use my photo editing software and I am constantly amazed at what I can do with pictures I already love.

Winter here on the Central Coast of California is when the big waves come to town, they aren't always evident in the pics that will follow, but if you come visit 6 months from now prepare for Lake Pacific. The water was cool and gorgeous, I was knee deep in the surf at moments.

Enjoy the photos. :-)