Big Sur | Travel Photography
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Our second excursion away from the city of San Francisco was to Big Sur. The decision to go was kind of last minute with us adding it to our home-made itinerary two days before we departed. Needless to say it was one of the best decisions we made as the landscape in Big Sur was absolutely phenomenal. While we're not going to claim we've seen a good representation of all the costal areas in the US and deem this the best, let's just say the other unseen areas have a high bar put forth before them. One of the longest stops we made in the Big Sur area was at Pfeiffer Beach which was absolutely amazing. While it's water temperature in September wasn't balmy, that didn't keep the surfers at bay and the rock formations jutting out of the water were truly a sight to behold. After talking to some locals we found out that the beach is foggy half the time and clear nights like the one we experienced definitely wasn't always the case so we were very thankful to have made the trip on the night we did. Also we stopped at Bixby Bridge which we've seen in print many times in various places, but were very excited to see in person. It definitely lived up to the hype as the breath taking span crossed a beautiful gorge, it was both a marvel in engineering and in nature. In addition to Pfeiffer Beach and Bixby Bridge, we stopped at other places along the cost where the rock formations looked interesting and where we could climb down to the ocean edge to look out. The opportunity to use the Lee 10 stop filter we recently acquired was definitely not missed, at times we wished we had two so we could be running both cameras on long exposures at once, however we made due just fine. Hope you enjoy the photos, this was one of our favorite parts of the trip!This work by JD Maloney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
