Pfeiffer Beach

• Augustus Hare.

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One more shot from Pfeiffer State Beach. Took this one as I reached the beach when I got about 2 minutes to shoot the bridge head on without anyone walking through the frame. I like this shot a little better than the one where the sun is setting through the arch.

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Big Sur

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• James Joyce.

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wow wow wow! so three days ago I had reached about 850k views on flickr and was wondering what I need to achieve a Million views by the end of the year 2014. Then I posted the Manhattan Beach Pier shot which got explored and flickr views went crazy. In three days I crossed over to a final tally, at the time of writing, of 1,057,039 views. I am truly blown away and awed by all the comments and interest on my photos. This is pretty awesome and thanks everyone for visiting and their kind words.

Here is another shot I took at the Big Sur trip. This was taken a soon as I reached the Pfeiffer beach, the sun was still high and the light was coming through the arch of the bridge as if coming from another portal illuminating the shadows in front of the bridge. Most of the photographers were positioned directly in front of the arch trying to get the shot I posted earlier so this one was pretty easy to take.

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• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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So finally after bugging my wife for a while she agreed to make a trip up to Big Sur with me to shoot the Pfeiffer beach at sunset. I have had the opportunity to shoot this beautiful natural bridge before and heard from many friends that January is the month to be here as you will be able to observe the setting sun through the arch of the Bridge.

Unfortunately for me, many of the photographers in the area had the same Idea and that combined with the fact that it was a long weekend just made the usually peaceful beach a hugely popular destination. I literally had to walk half a mile to the beach carrying my gear while my wife and sis-in-law tried to find parking. Anyways the fact that I got a glimpse of the sun just going down made it all worthwhile. So here is the money shot from the trip, I used a 86mm focal length along with sot metering to get this shot. Thanks for visiting my pictures..

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• Henry Ward Beecher.

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I have mentioned in some earlier posts about the challenges of shooting Big Sur. There are so many locations and so few facilities that you have to be meticulous about planning your trip. It took me 4 or 5 trips to figure this out. I also was lucky enough to meet some seasoned photographers and learn some excellent tips on the way. I learned about the keyhole arch and the Pfeiffer beach from one such seasoned pro. He was also kind enough to let me know that during January, the sunset can be viewed right through the arch.

I was super excited about the trip, and I didn’t think about adding any other location to the itinerary. We booked a camping location nearby and drove straight to the beach. The last part of the drive to the beach was a bit sketchy for our Mazda 3, but we managed to get to the parking lot. Unfortunately for me, a lot of photographers had the same idea as me, and prime locations to shoot the sunset were already gone. These guys and gals were waiting on the beach since the morning. So I wandered off looking for interesting compositions around the arch, and there were many to be found. This composition is to the right of the keyhole arch. The setting sun was giving beautiful color to the few clouds that lingered. I wanted to crop in a bit to freeze the wave action that was happening near the rocks.