07/52 – Myrtle Creek Botanical Gardens, Fallbrook, California. Located in northern San Diego, Myrtle Creek Botanical Gardens offers a beautiful, outdoor setting with some gorgeous rustic scenery for individual portraits, family and newborn shoots alike. A fully functioning nursery, they also have a quaint cafe and offer small event hosting, including parties and weddings. Even though it’s a bit of …
06/52 – San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas
06/52 – San Elijo Lagoon, Encinitas, California. If you’re looking to capture some beautiful nature shots, the San Elijo Lagoon Ecological Reserve and Nature Center is a must visit! Located off Manchester Avenue, it’s just east of the coast line and offers a short little walking hike around some beautiful, protected lagoon scenery. I’ve done fitness lifestyle and engagement shoots …
05/52 – Old Poway Park, Poway
05/52 – Old Poway Park, Poway, California. By far, Old Poway Park is defnitely one of my favorite places to capture some amazing portraits of my clients. I’ve photographed graduations, engagements, maternity, family portraits and even fashion promo shoots all throughout the Old Poway Park, and I never leave disappointed! This scenic throwback to the early 20th Century California combines …
04/52 – Presidio Park, San Diego
04/52 – Presiio Park, San Diego, California. A National Historical Landmark, Presidio Park (or San Diego Presidio) is located right next door to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, and is home to the Junipero Serra Museum. It offers a wide range of history and beauty, very similar in nature to San Diego’s Balboa Park, but without all the …
03/52 – Coasterra on Harbor Island, San Diego
03/52 – Coasterra on Harbor Island, San Diego, California. One of the latest editions to the Cohen Restaurant Group in San Diego, Coasterra on Harbor Island provides some of the most amazing views of the downtown San Diego skyline coupled with innovative and modern Mexican cuisine. Located right next door to Island Prime, Coasterra is not typically the best place …
02/52 – Sunset Cliffs, Ocean Beach, California
02/52 – Sunset Cliffs, Ocean Beach, California. This is another of my favorite places to shoot engagements and family photos, but be careful, the bluffs can be slippery (so not really suggested for small children and kids)! Sunset Cliffs is a large, long stretch of beach that stretches along the Pacific Ocean, offering a variety of sandy beaches and rocky …
01/52 – Windansea Beach, La Jolla, California
Since my surgery in 2014, the new year always brings a time of retrospect and opportunity to challenge and improve myself in some ever-so-slight, difficult, yet achievable way. I’ve quit smoking, retooled my priorities and completely eliminated sodas (the latter of which has been the hardest) in a quest to take small little baby steps towards a better quality of …
Meet the Master Photographer on a Mission to Help us See the Sea
A circle of barracuda swirls around Dinah Halstead in Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Schools of barracuda often form circles in the sea as a defensive behavior. Dinah extended her hand as they swam around her, creating a gesture that makes the picture stronger. —David Doubilet PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID DOUBILET Without photography, the world beneath the ocean’s surface would remain …
Nice Shot! How a Photographer Captured a Once-in-a-Lifetime Image of Lightning
As an evening storm lights up the sky near Wood River, Nebraska, about 413,000 sandhill cranes—tall, bugling, crimson-capped birds—arrive to roost in the shallows of the Platte River, which is fed by the aquifer. PHOTOGRAPH BY RANDY OLSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC This shot happened on my last night on assignment. I was working on astory about the Ogallala Aquifer near Wood …
Van Gogh Masterpieces Reimagined with Spellbinding Tilt-Shift Effect
Vincent van Gogh is renowned for his Post-Impressionistic paintings, depicting open air scenes with lush color and swirling movement. Using Photoshop, Redditor melonshade has reimagined some of the artist’s masterpieces, blurring the backgrounds as if filtering the works through a tilt-shift lens. The digital technique appears like a modern cousin to the hyper-stylized aesthetic of the Post-Impressionism movement, warping sharper shapes …