My Heaven

This is image number 20,000 on my Canon 5D.  I read somewhere that once you've taken 10,000 shots, you've learned a lot!   I'm happy to say that I know I have learned, though at a somewhat slow pace.   I don't have one of the those brains that just soaks it up and remembers...so I've had to take twice as many!

This beach in Cardiff-by-the-Sea is where I have had most of my client sessions, from yoga clothing to family shoots and its where I have created some of my favorite fine art images.

I'm so grateful for this place and consider it my sanctuary.    It's so peaceful and everyone here is always happy.  I'm grateful I lived right up the hill for a year and a half of my life and that I can drive out here any time.  Mostly I'm grateful that this place is truly what inspired me to pick up a DSLR and make photos that would give people the feeling of being here.  It's heaven to me...

Forever

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory. ~ Betty Smith


I have been running over to the beach every afternoon for the past few days trying to catch a sunset like this.  This kind that happens when the sky is just flirting with a storm but then suddenly the sun decides to steal the show by breaking through.   The colors are always amazing and no bad photo can be taken.     Well, the sun hasn't popped out these days... not at the ocean, anyway, so once again I went to the archives and voila!  I found what I was looking for.  Only now I see a purple heart in the sky and wonder how I missed it before...