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Ken Rockwell and I, with the help of Larry Krauter, and a group of talented photographers, spent a few pleasant days exploring the literary landscape of California's Central Coast. We toured the landmarks and landscapes made famous by author John Steinbeck in the first half of the 20th Century. Here are some of my efforts.


For the first time on a photo trip, I relied very heavily on my point-and-shoot camera, the Panasonic Lumix LX5. I uploaded all the photographs shown here onto my iPad, and made some basic and a few advanced changes to the images, solely using apps on the iPad. (I also used my DSLR, for telephoto images and when I got serious about macro photographs.)


Pelican Feet on the Commercial Pier in Monterey

I've never focused on just the feet of a pelican before. On this overcast day, that seemed like a good choice; some of the color in the pelican's webbed feet seemed to match the red of the wood rail on which the pelican perched.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2011 08:44 AMViews: 96

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Pelican on the Monterey Commercial Dock

The colors of the pelican matched up nicely with the colors on the Commercial Pier in Monterey. A long lens let me nicely blur out the background and exclude the big, yellow boxes that made the yellow reflection behind the pelican.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2011 08:39 AMViews: 96

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Sea Lions Sleep Next to the Monterey Pier

A pod of sea lions has taken over what was once a boat dock alongside the the Fisherman's Wharf pier. I aimed my telephoto lens directly into the mass of seals, excluding the wooden remains of the dock (which didn't add anything to the composition).
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2011 09:55 AMViews: 96

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Sea Lion Yawn - Near San Simeon, California

The sea lion may have been bored, but I wasn't, as I zoomed in on my subject with a telephoto lens.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2011 09:54 AMViews: 229

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Shadow Portrait Shoot-Out

Thomas Fenady and I shoot it out next to an old barn in the Salinas Valley.
Capture Date: Aug 12, 2011 02:26 PMViews: 97

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Calendar Art in the office of the El Castell Motel

Capture Date: Aug 25, 2011 06:43 PMViews: 102

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Best Stache

The mustache belonged to the gardener at the Garden of Memories cemetery, in Salinas, where John Steinbeck is buried.
Capture Date: Aug 25, 2011 03:48 PMViews: 97

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After the Party on Cannery Row, Monterey

It's not easy to photograph people well, particularly when there isn't much time to create a rapport. In this case, my fellow photographer, Susan Manley, and I simply commented on how lovely our potential subject looked, as she stepped out of a swanky party along Cannery Row. She obviously was lovely and she just as obviously didn't mind having us make her portrait.
Capture Date: Aug 25, 2011 09:30 PMViews: 93

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Abuelita - Downtown Salinas

I've photographed this woman on each of my last three visits to Salinas. Blind, she sat on a chair on the sidewalk, selling knit hats and scarves. A few years ago, when we met, she carried bags of aluminum cans, and when I returned the next year
to to show her the portrait I'd made of her, on my iPhone's screen, she said, "Yo soy ciego" - "I'm blind."
Capture Date: Aug 25, 2011 03:29 PMViews: 95

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James Dean Poster - Downtown Salinas

Dean starred in the film adaption of Steinbeck's East of Eden; a good portion of the book takes place in Salinas, and that's where I found Dean's somewhat ghostly image, residing on poster inside a building on Central Avenue.
Capture Date: Aug 25, 2011 01:58 PMViews: 92

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At the Sang Cafe - Salinas

"John Steinbeck ate here." So says the sign at the entrance of the Sang Cafe. Mr. Sang posed for our group with two of his waitresses. "Do you have many groups of photographers ask to make your portrait, Mr. Sang?" I asked. "Never," he answered.
Capture Date: Aug 25, 2011 03:19 PMViews: 99

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The Old House At the Grapes of Wrath Vineyards

We stopped to photograph a ruined house in the Grapes of Wrath vineyards, along the west side of the Salinas Valley. Several of us picked up on the shadow people, who were using the vineyard to mask part of an ugly fence that runs around the house.
Capture Date: Aug 26, 2011 06:14 PMViews: 104

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Wet Field Hand

A worker wanders through an irrigated field in the Salina Valley. Did he raise his hands in spontaneous joy, or was he performing for our group of photographers? There's no way to know.
Capture Date: Aug 27, 2011 05:32 PMViews: 97

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BernieBoutin Mar 13, 2013 10:20 PM
awesome, best image I've seen today
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