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Seals on the Rocks
Sea Lions on the Rocks, originally uploaded by tomkellyphoto.
A trip to San Francisco is never complete without visiting the sea lions at Pier 39. So as I cruised route 1 south of Half Moon Bay searching for a good sunset cove, imagine my surprise when I spotted a dozen sea lions resting on a rock.
It was a challenging light situation. The easiest spot to photograph them from shore was directly backlit – you could hardly see the seals. So as stealth as I could, I tried to sneak around a small peninsula to get a slightly better light angle.
Well, it didn’t work all that well. While mommy and daddy just shrugged off my presence and remained on their rock, the smaller seals (such as the ones in the photograph) made tracks for the water, sliding off the rock and into the Pacific.
While I had only seconds before the rock was evacuated, it was time enough to craft a few images with some help from Mother Nature’s waves, crashing over the rock as the sea lions headed into the water.
Breaking Surf
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We love the California coast between Half Moon Bay and San Francisco. It’s a treasure of a drive at any time of the day. Heading into the city one evening we picked a solitary cove for a sunset walk and shoot. The sun angles didn’t present any really obvious shots. At one point I even waded out through a rock channel into a smaller cove, where all of a sudden I found myself trapped with incoming tide pounding against the rocks and coating the Nikon D30o with saltwater. Eventually I setup on the beach, content to just shoot the sun streaming through the waves.
This was one of those shots that seemed pretty useless in the field. But Carole brought it to my attention during the Adobe Bridge edit that night. It was a fantastic array of color streaming through the translucent waves. It became one of her favorite photographs.
Breaking Surf
The translucent surf breaks hard against the rocks on a lonely cove along the Pacific Ocean coast south of San Francisco, California. (c) 2009 Tom Kelly
Golden Gate Sunrise
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Golden Gate Sunrise
The sun rises over San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.
Seaside in Rockport
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We’ve visited Boston many times but on a recent trip there were looking for a short sidetrip on the coast. We found the most perfect setting in Rockport, at the top of Cape Ann just an hour from the city. Rockport is a small fishing town set on a bay formed by Bearskin Neck which juts out into the harbor. The centerpiece of Rockport is Motif #1, a wonderful old fishing shack set on a dock in the quiet harbor. With its brightly colored fishing buoys adorning its walls, Motif #1 is one of the most recognizable New England coastal scenes.
Seaside in Rockport
A lonely fisherman rows into the bay past Rockport’s Motif #1 on a calm Atlantic Ocean morning. (c) 2009 Tom Kelly
Adriatic Sunset
We’ve grown to love the Adriatic coastline down the Balkans, from Slovenia through Croatia. In particular, Croatia has emerged from recent wars to rebuild into a beautiful country mixing ancient with new. Sunsets in Croatia are like no other place we’ve seen. With hundreds of miles of barrier islands just off the coastline, the sun is always setting with a perspective on both the land and sea. This scene is from the tiny fishing village of Cavtat, just south of Dubrovnik. The sun is setting on an island, while a fisherman trolls the depths at the edge of the sheltered harbor.
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