After a week of being back from California, I finally managed to finish going through the many, many photos I took during the five day tour. In case you haven't read my previous posts or Twitter & Facebook, I was part of a small group of photographers who went on a tour of the Central Coast of California with Dave Wyman. We had a great time, took lots of photos, and moved at an incredibly slow pace - a photographer's dream, although some of the other photographers fell asleep waiting for me :).

I could write a 10 page article on how beautiful California is, and how perfect the weather was... but I'll leave that up to others who have better writing skills. I also doubt that my pictures will do any justice to what I saw since most of the time I was too excited about the new and unusual nature/landscape. Perhaps next year I will have some time to go by myself at an even slower pace and really think through every photo before taking it. However, I do have a little over 100 photos that I took and that I am fairly pleased with - I uploaded them in a separate gallery (link on the right) divided into landscapes, portraits, and miscellaneous objects/snapshots. I should also mention that the post processing was very minimal on all of them - I shot them in RAW, adjusted the exposure, WB, color, and contrast in Capture One where needed, and then corrected the distortion in Photoshop.

I was particularly excited about this shot when I took it because I had never seen the ocean, seagulls, flowers, and mountains together in a square mile radius before. Unless you live in California on the coast, or somewhere in Southern Europe by the sea, you probably have never seen that combination before either and you will understand my excitement. This also explains why the other people in the group (who were from California with the exception of two others) thought it strange that I would wait for a seagull to fly in my photo rather than take photos of the ocean :).

I am going to post a photo every day over the next few weeks, so if you want to read more details about the photos that you see in the Central Coast of California gallery, check back tomorrow, or follow me on Facebook or Twitter (links to the right).

Thanks for stopping by... and it's good to be home! ;)

Titus