20 February 2022
On the Southern California Beaches page photo #5481 was added to the Wayfarers Chapel section. Also the Cabrillo Beach section was added in its entirety.
5 July 2021
Added picture #5143 to the Misc. Other Pictures page.
5 July 2021
Added picture #5143 to the Misc. Other Pictures page.
Southern California Beaches
January 2022
After two years of not being able to travel and take any pictures; the weather forecast said there were going to be higher than normal surf for the next day. So I decided to go down to the beach to see if I could find anything interesting that I could photograph. Over the next several weeks I made several visits to various Southern California beaches and beach related sites. The following are the results of those visits.
Redondo Beach Pier

Picture Number: CM1_5163
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/640 sec
F-Stop: f/6.3 Lens: 200 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5159
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 125 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 98 mm


Picture Number: CM1_0463
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/640 sec
F-Stop: f/6.3 Lens: 200 mm
Torrance Beach
Picture Number: CM1_5228
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 140 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 98 mm


Picture Number: CM1_5170
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/500 sec
F-Stop: f/5.6 Lens: 200 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5272
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/500 sec
F-Stop: f/5.6 Lens: 200 mm

Ventura Marina

Picture Number: CM1_5243
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 195 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5244
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/160 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 170 mm


Picture Number: CM1_5256
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 300 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5270
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 175 mm


Picture Number: CM1_5283
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 125 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 300 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5371
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 200 Shutter Speed: 1/100 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 75 mm

Point Vicente Lighthouse
Point Vicente Lighthouse is located in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. It is 67 feet tall and stands on a cliff with a height of 130 feet. It is just north of the entrances to the Los Angeles/Long Beach Harbors and is between Point Loma Lighthouse to the south and Point Conception Lighthouse to the north. The lighthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The lighthouse is owned by the United States federal government and is managed by the United States Coast Guard. It is not usually open to the public, but the Coast Guard Auxiliary run tours once per month and it is used annually for the city's "Whale of a Day" festival.
Point Vicente Lighthouse was built in 1926, following years of complaints by shippers about the dangerous waters around the Palos Verdes peninsula. It was constructed using a Parisian Fresnel lens with a width of 5 feet, which had been in use in Alaska since its construction in 1886. In 1934 the Long Beach Radio Station opened in a neighboring building, which was used to monitor for distress signals. The light source was dimmed to just 25 watts during World War II to avoid aiding the enemy. It was automated in 1971, and the radio station was closed in 1980. In 2015, the Coast Guard announced its intention to replace the original third order lens with an LED light with a 14 nm range, replacing the current light and lens. In February 2019 the lens was removed from the light room. The Coast Guard Light List specifies its light characteristic as being a pair of two white flashes, repeating that pair every 20 seconds. An emergency light of reduced intensity operates if the main light is extinguished.

Picture Number: CM1_5339
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 110 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 122 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5341
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 75 mm


Picture Number: CM1_5338
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 125 Shutter Speed: 1/125 sec
F-Stop: f/11 Lens: 55 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5350
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/320 sec
F-Stop: f/9 Lens: 20 mm


Picture Number: CM1_5354
Date: January 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 110 Shutter Speed: 1/250 sec
F-Stop: f/8 Lens: 30 mm
Picture Number: CM1_5494
Date: FEBRUARY 2022
Camera: Nikon D7100
ISO: 100 Shutter Speed: 1/400 sec
F-Stop: f/10 Lens: 86 mm
