Tuesday, June 26, 2007

From the picture album: Pacific Coast



It's been a crazy week here in North Carolina as we move from Chapel Hill to Durham. As a result, I've had no time for photography and little time for blog updates. Hopefully, I'll have a chance to get out to take some shots of the full moon later this week. If I get anything good, I'll get them up here.

In the meantime, here's a shot that I took with my old Olympus when we were in California in October, 2005. This view can be found just north of Santa Cruz. It's a short walk on a trail from a nondescript parking lot on Highway 1. The day I took this shot, views were hard to come by in Northern California due to dense fog. However, at this region of the coast, everything opened up, and the views were spectacular.

2 comments:

mainou said...

Is this before you dove in?

Nate M. said...

I cannon-balled off that cliff about three minutes later.

Actually, funny story about this shot... it was a fairly remote location along the coast. We got out of the car, walked about half a mile to the beach, and hung out for an hour or so. Only one other couple appeared during that time. On our way out, we asked them to take a photo of us, and afterwards, we began chatting. Bizarrely, they not only lived in North Carolina, they lived in Chapel Hill along what was then called Airport Road (now MLK). Small world.