The Pigeon Point lighthouse, seen from the beach and Pacific Ocean behind it.

View of the Pigeon Point lighthouse seen from the sandy beach.

HDR of the wetlands in front of the beach. I'm not too happy with how this came out, but the lighting was so tough that the individual photos are either 1) Completely clipped white, while showing some details or 2) Not clipped white, but completely shadowed. Oh well!

I thought these rocks made some neat pattersn that could draw the eye through the photo. Once again, the lighting made it difficult. I tried to keep this HDR more realistic looking.

I loved the shapes of these rocks. This is an HDR, but I tried to keep it realistic. I loved the contrast/texture here.

Who knew this mini-lighthouse was a cigarette trash can?!

We moved the little lighthouse in front of the big one for a "cooler" effect.

The Pigeon Point Lighthouse, which wasn't getting lit (sadly) that night :(

I found a small crack in the fence around the lighthouse and snuck my camera through it. This was a great chance to use the "Live View" on my camera since I wasn't tall enough to see through the viewfinder. I think it came out fairly well! The lighting was tough, so I tried doing an HDR too. This is the non-HDR version.

I found a small crack in the fence around the lighthouse and snuck my camera through it. This was a great chance to use the "Live View" on my camera since I wasn't tall enough to see through the viewfinder. I think it came out fairly well! The lighting was tough, so I tried doing an HDR too. This is the HDR version.

I thought this old fog-horn building was really neat. There was a really interesting orange glow coming through the windows so I thought I would de-saturate the entire image except for the windows. Thanks to Paul for teaching me about the sun-flares! See the next photo for the normal-color version (this is also an HDR).

I thought this old fog-horn building was really neat. There was a really interesting orange glow coming through the windows so I thought I would de-saturate the entire image except for the windows. Thanks to Paul for teaching me about the sun-flares! This is the normal color version. I liked the orange glow in the windows so I desaturated everything except the windows in the previous photo.

I thought there was some neat texture in this rope. HDR