On a clear day...

[AlwaysOnAuto]

...you can see the Newport Beach Pier.

https://www.cambridgeincolour.com/fo...1&d=1501513493

[rpcrowe]

I like this image. In fact, I first thought that it was shot just North of Carlsbad, California (because of the two smokestacks)...

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Maybe TinyPic will let me put a larger version in now.



Jr Lifeguards running on the beach at the US Open of Surfing this week in HB, Ca.

[IzzieK]

I kinda like the first shot...looks like a lot of people there and quite a few photographers too. I like the composition of the first shot.

[billtils]

... quite a few photographers too. I like the composition of the first shot.

I'm too much of a coward to take my gear that close to salt water! And agree re composition of the first one.

[rpcrowe]

I'm too much of a coward to take my gear that close to salt water! And agree re composition of the first one.

I agree that salt water can be very detrimental to photo equipment.

When I am around or in salt water, the first thing that I do is to make sure that my footing is secure. If I were to fall and totally dunk my camera/lens, everything that I am going to say goes out the window...

Immersion in salt water is not the only way that photo gear can be compromised. On a breezy day, there is usually enough salt spray floating around to damage a camera/lens. I always have an OPTECH Rainsleeve in my photo vest or in my camera bag. The Rainsleeve is pretty cheap, very lightweight and works well to protect the camera/lens.

Now... If I get some salt spray on my camera/lens or if my monopod or tripod legs are immersed in water. I use Salt Away.
http://www.saltawayproducts.com/4ozPage.htm
I have been using this for years on my fishing equipment.

Now for my photo gear... I always have a couple of squares of old T-shirt material in a plastic Ziplock bag. If my camera/lens gets salt spray on it, I will wipe it dry and then dampen the T-shirt material with Salt Away and wipe down the camera/lens (I always use a filter on my lens in and around salt water, so I don't need to clean the front element of the lens). Then I wipe off the Salt Away with the T-shirt material dampened with fresh water. Finally, I dry the camera/lens. I will spray Salt Away liberally on a cloth and wipe the front of the filter and use the T-shirt material to clean it off.

For my tripod or monopod legs, normally the graphite is not adversely impacted by salt water but the salt residue can make folding and unfolding the legs difficult Also, if a leg includes a spike at the end, that metal may corrode due to salt water. The first thing I do is to rinse off the leg liberally with fresh water, then spray it liberally with Salt Away and finally rinse off the Salt Away with more fresh water and dry the leg or legs.

I have a large container of Salt Away concentrate in my garage which I dilute and use on my fishing rods and reels. I use a small spray bottle to carry a diluted Salt Away mixture with me whenever I plan to be near salt water. It seems to last for years without losing its anti-salt properties. A four ounce container that I have linked to above should last the average photographer a life-time. In fact, I would rebottle it in a much smaller spray container for carrying on photo shoots.

[billtils]

Richard

Thank you for that information - detailed and helpful.

[Shadowman]

Nice capture.

[Wavelength]

Nice images

[plugsnpixels]

Nice work Alan. These caught my eye because I've been there. I have photos of a nasty power plant by the beach belching smoke, but I think it's Santa Monica. The one in your pic is behaving much better ;-)

[IzzieK]

Richard

Thank you for that information - detailed and helpful.

Echo this....thanks.

[bnnrcn]

I like the first image, nice composition Alan

[AlwaysOnAuto]

Nice work Alan. These caught my eye because I've been there. I have photos of a nasty power plant by the beach belching smoke, but I think it's Santa Monica. The one in your pic is behaving much better ;-)

Mike - I don't know of any smoke stacks that would be visible in Santa Monica, so it must be somewhere else. I grew up there and I doubt they've built any since I left.

[plugsnpixels]

Alan, I'll defer to you since I grew up in NJ (!), although I live in the 909 now.

I have a folder labeled "Santa Monica Pier 7/9/12" and this heavily zoomed consumer camera photo looking south was in it (as I recall, the photo was taken from the pier):



While we're at it, here's another (unretouched) pic of the plant from the same day with a helicopter flying nearby. This was a really bad grab shot as I was battling the strong wind and the crappy auto-focus:



It's the type of image that should have been deleted, but look what I did with PostworkShop:



Now it becomes some sort of post-apocalyptic/environmental statement image.

[AlwaysOnAuto]

I won't hold your growing up in NJ against you since I was born there, Mike.
That looks like the Hyperion Plant in El Segundo in your photograph, judging by the background features.
I don't think they are spewing smoke, but rather steam. Notice how the plume dissipates to nothing. Smoke won't do that and besides, the AQMD would be all over them if they were dumping smoke into the air. I could be wrong though.

[plugsnpixels]

Ha, we both escaped the East Coast...

Thanks, I feel better. Especially for those people living on the hill behind the plant! Nasty view though.