A Photographer’s Journey — volume 1
I hope everyone is doing well and staying healthy.
Amazing Sky — Corolla Beach, NC – No.2 © jj raia
Some of my earliest memories are of the beach in Maine as a three year old. Being a child of a Navy man, the family was always on the move, so at five, it was the beach nearly every day in southern California. By eight, it was the beaches near Naples, Italy and from ten onward, it was many beaches along the Jersey shore. Friends and I made it a point to spend as much time there as possible, figuring impromptu ways to stay overnight on weekends. In college and for almost ten years, we would rent a house for a week or a whole summer to enjoy the carefree life of baking on the beach and beer.
The coast has been a constant throughout my entire life, and traveling up the California coast for two weeks in 2017 was as much to reacquaint myself to what has been missed in recent years, as it was an adventure to photograph new places on the eastern side of the Sierras. I have found that waders have helped quite a bit to be immersed in the photograph, to be in the waves as a participant rather then an observer; a true connection with the surf. Even though I no longer live near the coast, it will always be a part of who I am.
Please click here to see the next in the series of Intimate Encounters — Coast.
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