Tuesday, May 22, 2007 – Beach Icons

Burnt out, bummed, down in the dumps?  Drive down to the beach.  Just watch. Things will be better.

California Brown Pelicans, Pelecanus occidentalis californicus, riding the onshore wind….

Manhattan Beach, a surfer dude, riding the waves…

This must be an Italian expatriate, no doubt from Venice, where he once worked as a gondolier, who does not seem to get the concept of surfing at all…

It's always five o'clock somewhere…

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Technical Note:

Most of these photographs were shot with a Nikon D70 - using lens (1) AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or (2) AF Nikkor 70-300mm telephoto, or after 5 June 2006, (3) AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor, 55-200 mm f/4-5.6G ED. They were modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0.  Earlier photography was done with a Sony Mavica digital still camera (MVC-FD-88) with built-in digital zoom.

All text and photos, unless otherwise noted, Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 - Alan M. Pavlik