{"id":4146,"date":"2018-10-06T19:59:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T03:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2018-10-06T20:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T04:16:59","slug":"photographing-the-california-central-coast-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/06\/photographing-the-california-central-coast-day-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographing the California Central Coast &#8211; Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m on a three-day scouting trip to photograph the central coast of California from the Sonoma Coast north of San Francisco down to Santa Cruz to the south. \u00a0I am preparing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/workshops\/napa-photo-workshop.html\">2018 Central Coast and Napa photography workshop<\/a>. \u00a0The first two days covered the coast north of Frisco. Today would continue south, picking up the coast at Half Moon Bay. \u00a0You can read about the first to days here:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/06\/photographing-california-central-coast-day-1\/\">Photographing the California Central Coast &#8211; Day 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/06\/photographing-the-california-central-coast-day-2\/\">Photographing the California Central Coast &#8211; Day 2<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unlike the prior day where I didn\u2019t roll out of my sleeping bag until 8:00, this day the alarm was set for 5:00. \u00a0That\u2019s more consistent with what I\u2019m used to when photographing. \u00a0I arose in the dark, took a quick hot shower and broke camp as silently as possible. \u00a0When I left the campground it was still dark.<\/p>\n<p>Gleason Beach, which I had photographed the day before, grabbed my attention in the morning light and I had to stop for it again.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Gleason Beach Morning.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Gleason-Beach-Morning.jpg\" alt=\"Gleason Beach Morning\" width=\"597\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>These two sea stacks that hadn\u2019t impressed me in the afternoon stood out in the soft morning light. \u00a0As with the first two days, there were occasional splashes of large waves. \u00a0But, from this distance what impressed the eye didn\u2019t impress the camera. \u00a0So I was more intent on photographing the patterns made by the surf after the waves broke.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The next stretch of driving was a long one &#8211; back up to the tip of Tomales Bay, continuing on Highway 1 through Stinson Beach, up the treacherous stretch over the rugged coastal mountains and down the other side where it joins with US-101 just before crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. \u00a0I continued on through San Francisco being sure to stay on Highway 1 which eventually made its way back to the coast after enduring a large dose of city traffic. \u00a0It was a long drive but I eventually got to Pescadero State Park.<\/p>\n<p>I spent a lot of time here and finally captured two decent splashes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"pescadero-splashes.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/pescadero-splashes.jpg\" alt=\"Pescadero splashes\" width=\"597\" height=\"216\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There were some very interesting rocks and this composition jumped out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"central-coast--180920-_B0A1223-Edit.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/central-coast-180920-_B0A1223-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Pescadero State Beach\" width=\"598\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And finally, I\u2019d like to share this abstract.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"central-coast--180920-_B0A1176-Edit.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/central-coast-180920-_B0A1176-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"Pescadero Beach Abstract\" width=\"598\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some things are just impossible to pass up.<\/p>\n<p>Pescadero Beach concluded the scouting I had planned. But there was one more stop to make, this time along the Big Sur coast. \u00a0The highway was closed in May of 2017 by two landslides and one destroyed bridge. \u00a0One lane of the road was reopened at the northernmost landslide in a matter of weeks. \u00a0It\u2019s still one lane. \u00a0There\u2019s more work to be done to fully clear the slide. \u00a0It took five months to replace the bridge. \u00a0But the large landslide was too big to clear. \u00a0They had to completely rebuild the road and that wasn\u2019t completed until July of this year. \u00a0I was eager to revisit Big Sur after not seeing it for over two years.<\/p>\n<p>And I also saw this as an opportunity to rediscover a view of McWay Falls that I saw years ago and haven\u2019t been able to find since. \u00a0Well, I found it. \u00a0If you\u2019re not familiar with McWay Falls, it\u2019s in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. The waterfall falls on to the beach. \u00a0But what I was looking for was a viewpoint up the coast that just caught a bit of the falls. \u00a0And I found it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"central-coast--180920-_B0A1230-Edit.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/central-coast-180920-_B0A1230-Edit.jpg\" alt=\"McWay Falls\" width=\"598\" height=\"399\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I can\u2019t wait to take a group here, it\u2019s so dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>Well, that concludes my three days of scouting the. \u00a0I\u2019ll be returning there in November with a group and I\u2019m excited to share this dramatic California Coast with them.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re interested in joining us drop me an email. \u00a0You can also check it out by <a href=\"http:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/workshops\/napa-photo-workshop.html\">clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"bawpvc-ajax-counter\" data-id=\"4146\"> (59)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tag a long on a scouting expedition of the California Central Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[32,1438,112,1441,1439,295,785,1415,199,1262,1442,1440,1358],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-workshops","tag-california","tag-california-central-coast","tag-canon","tag-canon-5d-mark-iv","tag-central-coast","tag-journal-2","tag-pacific-ocean","tag-photograhy","tag-photography-workshops","tag-seascape","tag-seascape-photography","tag-sonoma-county","tag-workshops"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Nl7-14S","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ralphnordstromphotography.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}