Scouting the Coast: Preparing for the Laguna Beach Photography Workshop
As the Laguna Beach Coastal Photography Workshop approaches, I return to Heisler Park to scout locations, study wave timing, refine compositions, and prepare for teaching in the field. This behind-the-scenes look explores how changing viewpoints, patience, and careful observation can transform the way we photograph the coast.
How to Choose Fine Art Photography for Your Home or Office
Choosing fine art photography is about more than filling an empty wall. Learn how to select the right photograph for your home or office based on mood, scale, framing, presentation, and personal connection—so the artwork continues to inspire you for years to come.
Five Photography Lessons New Orleans Taught Me
New Orleans taught me that stronger travel photographs often come from slowing down and looking beyond the obvious. Here are five lessons about observation, light, people, familiar places, and returning to discover what you missed the first time.
Travel Photography in New Orleans: Sunrise, Stories, and Sense of Place
A personal travel photography journey through New Orleans, from sunrise over the Mississippi River to Jackson Square, Café du Monde, the Crescent City Connection, City Park, and Metairie Cemetery.
Photographing Waves: Timing, Shutter Speed, and Patience Along the Laguna Beach Coast
Waves can transform a coastal photograph in seconds. Learn how timing, shutter speed, patience, and composition help capture the movement, energy, and texture of the ocean.
Behind the Blowhole: Photographing Halona Beach Cove
A local recommendation led me beyond the familiar Halona Blowhole overlook and down to a secluded cove. From sea level, I spent more than an hour exploring changing perspectives, crashing waves, and the rugged Oahu coastline.
A Photographer’s Guide to Heisler Park in Laguna Beach
Heisler Park offers one of Laguna Beach’s most rewarding coastal photography settings, with ocean views, palm trees, cliffs, tide pools, Bird Rock, and views toward Monument Point.
Waves at Monument Point
A behind-the-image look at Waves at Monument Point, where curiosity, changing perspective, foreground texture, wave timing, and coastal energy came together to create a more intentional Laguna Beach photograph.
What to Expect from a Coastal Photography Workshop
A coastal photography workshop is more than a lesson in camera settings. It is an opportunity to slow down, see more intentionally, and learn how light, composition, timing, and place come together to create stronger images.
From a Christmas Polaroid to LTL Photo Art
My photography journey began with a Christmas Polaroid and grew into a lifelong love of visual storytelling, coastal photography, and the creation of LTL Photo Art.