On a Sunday morning, I got up much earlier than usually to go to a beach for a photo walk. I haven’t taken any photo since I got back from the North California road trip, just because of personal stuffs and I don’t feel like the city around me is photo worthy. Then I watched a YouTube video of a film photographer/YouTuber named Faizal Westcott about he created a photography club via Discord app to connect photographers and others who like photography alike. In this club/group, you can share your work, ask for feedback, discuss photo related topics and networking with others. My favorite channel is photo feedback obviously, since I really want to know what others think about my photos and I love to share value thoughts to others’ work as well. If you feel like Faizal’s Discord server, I encourage you to check it out. Here the link: https://discord.gg/99w7Z5x
After join the server and have several discussions with others inspired photographers and photographer wanna be, I got an urge to go out and shoot and get better. That’s why I woke up at 6am that Sunday morning.
Since I live in Orange County, I already visited a bunch of beaches around here (Long beach, Seal beach, Huntington beach, New Port beach, Corona Del Mar, and every small beach in between) and honestly, I don’t feel very enthusiastic to go those beaches again. So this time I tried a new one, a little further but worth it, Victoria beach in Laguna. To search for a location, I just look at Google map and pin point to a potential location to have Google street view of that area and decide if that worth going. The reason I like this beach is not because of its famous Pirate Tower but the mosses on the rocks right by the beach. You know I love trees and plants and that kind of green stuff. Another thing I like about this location the color of the water, a beautiful shade of emerald. The sand is so clean and white (not literally white but whiter than other muddy brownie sand. The sky was so clear when I driving but as soon as I got half way to the beach, I realized it’s not gonna clear anymore. I guess sky on the beach is always foggy?! Anyway I hope you can feel the cool atmosphere in that early foggy morning through these photos.
love the tones here. Fuji 160 NPS expired 
my favorite in the day
And here’re some photos that not the best.
In the first photo, the composition is just doesn’t work. I couldn’t bring out my main focus in the photo. In the second photo, the composition is bad again. Another thing doesn’t work out is lack of meaning in this photo. I tried to capture the beauty of the rocks creating a little valley and water from the waves can flow through it like a river, but the timing is not there yet, I should press the shutter right when the wave hitting the rocks. I was too late so the water run out already. I think I should open the lens up to create a shallower depth of field in order to isolate the rocks and little valley from the back ground.
Next are some casual shots around the rocks. 🙂 I know not everybody like to see rocks and mosses like me.
In the second photo, I like the way the sand feel so smooth and warm and was imbued with water from the wave so the surface was reflective so beautifully. The last photo is some cliché scene that you all get bored of :p
First time using Mamiya 645 Super and prism viewfinder and no split focusing screen, thanks God I didn’t miss focus much!
film sequence 