After spending a couple of weeks in San Diego in April 1993, I decided to stay. I never went back to Texas until several months later. Just stayed.
One thing that attracted me to San Diego was the geographic diversity. There are beaches at sea level, 300-foot cliffs overlooking some beaches, Cowles Mountain which rises to 1,593 feet above sea level, and everything in between. Few places where I have been offer such geographic diversity—Olympic Peninsula in Washington comes to mind, the State of Texas, and Southern California. San Diego, though, encompasses a mere 372.40 square miles. Texas has 268,581 square miles; Southern California, 56,512 square miles; and Olympic Peninsula, about 3,600 square miles. You can see that San Diego offers a lot of geographic variety that is easily accessible within minutes instead of hours or days.
One of the great places to experience beautiful beaches and seaside cliffs is Ocean Beach. I recently was there during the lowest tide I have ever experienced in San Diego. Since it was an extraordinarily clear day, I made my way to the cliffs overlooking the beach and got several beautiful pictures of Ocean Beach, the pier, the tide pools, and the beach. Using Photoshop CC’s Photomerge function, I created a beautiful panorama from six pictures (click on the picture for a better view):
The Ocean Beach Fishing Pier juts out 1,971 feet into the Pacific Ocean, making it the fourth longest pier on the West Coast but the longest concrete pier.
For an older blog post about the Ocean Beach Fishing Pier, see Ocean Beach Pier—The longest, second longest, and fourth longest pier on the West Coast.
If you don’t have a wide-angle or fisheye lens when you need it, simply take lots of overlapping pictures and then stitch them together to create your panorama. Most photo editing programs, including the free ones, have a stitching or photomerge function.
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A nice walk to go fishing.
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I remember visiting San D as a child but can only remember the zoo – still have a button picture!
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Beautiful panorama. Zoey the Cool Cat is trying to make her own beautiful stretched out panorama.
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She just wants to make sure she gets noticed……….lol
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She does that!
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Awesome photos!
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So beautiful! Wonderful shot!
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