Man Alone
I sat at the beach, enjoying my cold overcast afternoon with leaks of sunlight, watching the ocean wave in and out when the most pensive man I most remember ever seeing walked by.
Here is the back of him. The front of him felt private.
Flower Beginnings
People were no longer seeing each other as quarantine was instated. I lived next to a park at the time and since there were no people to photograph and spring had arrived, I would take my camera and go find other things to photograph. Very easily, flowers became my point of focus. Several years Later, I still love photographing them very much, as they’ve become my second favorite thing to photograph. People being first.
Santa Monica Pier
Anyone who knows anything about Santa Monica or SoCal will see this picture and know exactly where it is. The famed Santa Monica Pier. I used to avoid the pier because it felt too “touristy” for a new local like me, till I found out it can be peaceful in the winter when you walk to the end and just watch the ocean ahead, with very little people around.
Santa Monica, CA.
Arabian Nights
I call this Arabian Nights, because as soon as I took the picture and looked at the preview it reminded me of the film, “Lawrence of Arabia”. Another photograph I quite love. So much to feast your eyes on. The layered sky and mountains, the scattered human interaction, the several shades of brown, and the bliss of sunset.
Venice CA
Cliff Dreaming
This was the first photoshoot I ever had in California after I moved to Los Angeles. Shot in the beautiful Palos Verdes. I still preserve that place as somewhere special. Kayla and I wanted to create a beautiful sense of self that represented the western coast where land and sea meet as friends.
Goodbye Day
I remember clearly the first sunset I experienced over the ocean which still remains one of my favorite sunsets. It was in Venice CA, when I first visited LA.
It left me mesmerized, and wanting more, and at the same time, left a satisfaction in my heart. I would be back, and back am I.