I made this photo at Imperial Beach Pier which is only a few miles north of the border with Mexico. I didn’t do a lot of planning on this day but I felt like photographing at the coast and making a seascape. Usually I check the directions of the clouds and the tide levels before deciding exactly where to shoot sunset – in this case I realized that conditions would be good here and I left early and managed to arrive about 50 minutes before sunset.
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This summer I made a few trips out to the California desert to photograph some abandoned trains and railway tracks. There are lots of these spots maybe just an hour east of San Diego.
Most of my shooting was done with the Milky Way as a prime subject of the composition. But on the last trip out, I decided to ignore the core completely and point my camera in the other direction.
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This is the second in a series of “making of” articles where I cover the creative and technical choices behind a photo that I’ve been working on. This is intended to give an overview of the important decisions in a short and easily digestible manner.
Crescent moon setting behind the California Tower in Balboa Park, San Diego on 4/21/23.
Planning This photo of the crescent moon was taken on 4/21/23 which is two days after the new moon.
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I thought I’d start a “making of” series where I cover the creative and technical choices behind a photo that I’ve been working on. This is intended to give an overview of the important decisions in a short and easily digestible manner.
Close-up of sand verbena in the Anza Borrego desert.
This first photo is from two weeks ago when I went out to Anza Borrego State Park. With all the rain in SoCal, we’ve had very good blooms but it’s not quite at the level of a superbloom.
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