Oh, the beach!

Written on July 14, 2008 by Anna in General, My life

My favorite beach to shoot at is the Capitola city beach. It is usually not too crowded on the north side, where I like to shoot, it has a great pier that provides shade when it is too sunny and it is facing just the right direction for sweet light at sunset. (for you photographers, I am not a huge fan of sun-lit sunset images, so I mean sweet “open shade” type light). We like to head for the beach as a family whenever I have a shoot there in the summer, so we can hang out before and after the session. Saturday we headed up from San Jose to meet a most adorable family. After their shoot it stayed remarkably warm at the beach after sunset and we hung out for an hour and a half, just enjoying the beauty of it. My daughter, Layna, just can’t help herself and ALWAYS gets wet when there is even a puddle. She doesn’t even seen to notice the cold, but jumps right in. She cracks me up. Here are a few snaps from our hang-out. Isaiah was trying to demonstrate “the crane” move from Karate Kid, LOL and Alayna just has to make a silly face when the camera is out. These were all shot with a wide-angle lens (16 mm) just for fun. Soon I plan to get a true fisheye, to really crank up the distortion, but for now. . .