Took a walk up to the Santa Monica Pier for the annual paddleboard races. Not really that exciting but it is kinda funny to see a bunch of people standing up in the middle of the ocean. At certain points you don’t see the boards and it just looks like people are out there walking around. Of all the wave related sports out there this is probably the first one I would ever try.
My timing was sort of perfect as i got to Bombay Beach right at the end of the day. I got a good 45 minutes to play with changing light and a setting sun and it was fun to experiment with some shots.
The Bombay Beach beach area is extremely popular with photographers due to the “sunken trailer park” on the banks of the sea. I visited this site a year prior to this trip and was disappointed to see how much the area had changed. Some structures had been completely destroyed. A bit ironic to be upset about decomposing trailers decomposing between visits, but it is straight up disappointing to think that the trailers will be completely gone soon and the Salton Sea will be reduced to an even more depressing place.
The last leg of this trip to the Salton Sea ended at the Bombay Beach pier. The eastern coast beach community is just as scary and weird as it’s western counterparts, still there are moments of beauty in the sea, like not watching where you are going and realizing you are stepping on dead fish.
Walking around Venice with a camera is never a bad plan. There is always something going on. These are just two random shots. First a seagull with herpes and the second a few surfers just off the pier – ascending in age, descending in hair (scratch that and reverse it).
