Point Reyes National Seashore

• Vivien Leigh.

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Point Reyes Lighthouse during an autumn sunset. The shot was made using a makeshift reverse ND filter by combining .6 and .9 ND Lee filters from the outlook platform. Another shot I took during the recent trip to Point Reyes seashore. I almost missed the shot because we spend so much time taking pictures of the windswept cypresses. As we reached the platform the sun was about to set. My wife and I set up the tripod and the filters and got this beautiful scene on the first shot itself as the sunset happened.

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• Ellen Key.

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Recently I changed computers, and while sorting through my data files, I came across some of the old images that I missed. Some of them were due to lack of skills and some of them by accident. Anyways, I have been coming over some of my old trips to find images that I might have missed when I came across this shot at one of the windiest places in the world, Point Reyes seashore. My wife and I made this about a month after our marriage and stayed until the last light. On that evening, the lighthouse truly lived up to its reputation as the windiest place on the planet. But it was such a fun experience, and I came out of it with some decent shots.

Continuing with the tree obsession... the well-known tunnel of Cypress trees at Point Reyes California is beautiful in any light, but I think at its...

The evening before a very enjoyable workshop I did with Dave Fitzsimmons yesterday, we headed out into a rain storm to do some shooting. I had a...

I was driving to the Point Reyes Lighthouse and found this cute cute Cypress Tree Grove on the way.

• Rose Kennedy

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Point Reyes lighthouse from our last summer trip. We were in the bay area and had a day to spare so we decided t take a trip to this stunning lighthouse. We reached the location just as they were closing the gates but had enough time for a quick trip down to the lighthouse. I took this shot while were being herded back to the gates by the ranger. Albeit being a spring day the temperature was unusually warm and so there was thick fog cover at the lighthouse, hardly a surprise since its one of the foggiest places on the Pacific coast.

This was one of the few shots where you can see the shape of the lighthouse from that day. Most of the beautiful sights that are usually visible from this location were covered by fog that day but we still had a great time just enjoying the nice weather and walking around the wonderful ocean breeze. Thanks for visiting.

• Mark Twain.

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I have heard about the windswept Cypress trees of the Pacific coast for a long time and always wanted to see and photograph them. Cupressus macrocarpa, commonly known as Monterey Cypress or Macrocarpa, is a species of cypress that is endemic to the Central Coast of California. In the wild, the species is confined to two small populations, near Monterey and Carmel, California.[2] These two small populations represent what was once a very large forest on the west coast. The surviving trees from this forest are as old as 2000 years. it is a medium-sized coniferous evergreen tree, which often becomes irregular and flat-topped as a result of the strong winds that are typical of its native area. It grows to heights of up to 40m in perfect growing conditions, and its trunk diameter can reach 2.5m. The foliage grows in dense sprays, bright green in color. The leaves are scale-like, 2–5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots; seedlings up to a year old have needle-like leaves 4–8 mm long.

So when I finally made my move to CA, I decided to visit the windiest place on the Pacific coast and see if they have any cypress trees and I landed pay dirt. These trees are located on way to the Point Reyes Lighthouse just before you reach the lighthouse and are an amazing sight. I took this HDR shot as the sun was setting and I wanted to reach the lighthouse for the sunset. But I am very happy with the results and hope everyone likes it!!

One of only a couple of images from my short visit to Point Reyes National Seashore. I had looked at this location from maps and satellite imagery,...