One of the fun parts of being too poor to travel much, is that I simply have to focus on exploring more of my own backyard. And since my backyard includes rugged rocky coast, sandy beaches, and underwater kelp forests, I consider myself very lucky to have so much to photograph within an hour's drive.

As I expand my range to the north, one of the spots I am focusing in on is called Greyhound Rock. I shot here last month and on this, my second trip, I knew I wanted to see the south end of the beach. I settled on some rocks where I wouldn't get pounded by the big sets of waves that were rolling in. The wind kicked up that salty schmegma we all love to clean off our filters, so the chamois and cleaner fluid were kept in my coat pocket for easy access.

I kept the exposures short in order to capture the surf action which wound up working better from a schmegma standpoint. I really liked the smoothed over 30 second to minute long exposures I shot later with the fog bank smearing across the sky, but unfortunately, the fog wasn't the only thing smearing things up. Yup, the schmegma factored in those longer shots quite heavily, and in the end, they were ruined.

Luckily, the drive is short, and I will have opportunities for those long exposures in the future.

Nikon D300
Nikkor 12-24mm @ 14mm
0.6 sec @ f13, ISO 100
B+W Polarizer
Lee .9 Hard and .9 Soft GND Filters

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