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o mar verde

January summer sea in Rio. 

Destination: Outer Sunset, San Francisco (for the NYT)

My neighborhood!!

I got a call last month for another New York Times "Surfacing" column. Was so surprised to hear that I was to photograph my neighborhood....(disclaimer: there are several places not mention, one being my favorite stomping ground, the Pizza Place on Noriega. This column allows only for 5 different locations. So i know the writer must of had such a hard time choosing).

Outer Sunset is such a small community...many surfers, artists, skaters, and families. We - my boyfriend George, our dog, Reese and I are so fortunate to finally move back to the area and get to know our neighbors. yes we take long walks on the beach and stumble home from the bar around the corner. we can even smell a beached whale from on-shore winds. and the days of bright blue skies and no wind are just magical. There is a reason why it is called the Sunset...Unfortunately, the weekend I shot this assignment, it was dumping rain. all. day. long.

Historically the Outer Sunset was called "Carville" before homes from the 40s were built, during the era of the Cliff House and Sutro Baths. It was a graveyard for street cars (trains). People eventually converted these street cars into homes. And soon after development began and families moved to the beach.

See pictures in the NYT: In San Francisco, a Bleak Neighborhood Is Revived

Below is a slideshow of the images, including outtakes:

Destinaton: Outer Sunset, San Francisco (for NYT) - Images by Lianne Milton

Lands' End - urban wilderness of the outer sunset

Since our move back to SF, I'll be taking on a new project documenting the small community out in my neighborhood, the Outer Sunset, and its enigmatic coastline which lies along the western stretch of San Francisco facing the wide open Pacific Ocean. Its no southern california thats for sure, and we like it just the way it is.

 

 

scanning negs

holga pic. i dunno what i did to make it look like this. i don't do art photography. but i looove it.

~ beach days, sayulita, mexico.

surfer girl portrait

This is sort of different than how i normally take portraits. i wasn't too sure on the reflective corrugated metal, and had trouble finding a better background because it was about high noon and the sun was not working in my favor. or maybe i just wasn't working the sun, but anyway, i like this feel. the slight desaturated colors and contrast of the picture. and you know, the "fan" was really working well that day.

surfer portraits

Editorial and stock portraits of a local San Francisco surfer at Ocean Beach.

Surfer Portraits

I'm working on a storyboard about a little surf town in Mexico and got distracted in making these images of local surfers for the blog to share. These guys have seen their little fishing village transform over the past 10 yrs to a tourist destination. And now, themselves have gained a little from the tourism, such as providing a business teaching surfing, or taking surfers out on charter boats, and family business of restaurants and bars.

Burro -

Tigre -

Jose Luis -

Chile -

Tarzan -

Sayulita Shaper

Rogelio Ramos is a long time shaper and surfer, and is from one of the five original families in this tiny fishing village turned surfer tourist town. He has seen the growth of tourism in his town evolve over the past 10 years. Here he works in his shop, creating and shaping a board from a blank.

la playa

i'm editing a little project on surfers in sayulita and i stumbled across these pictures that makes me miss the ocean and surfing so much. evening light...little rollers and longboarders. well okay, so its flat, but at least the environment was heavenly.

surf film

every time i see a new surf flick out there that catches my eye, i think this is the direction that i want my photography to head towards. the color, the sounds, the movement and plus the storytelling.

here's a trailer to new film about women and their spirit of love for the ocean.

water

too bad there were little to no waves but i had to go out and get some water shots of surfing. may-oct is considered the low season though depending on what storms are brewing out in the pacific, sayulita can see a few roll through. i'll be heading back in the high season sometime, with beau in tow, and maybe by then i'll actually have a more secure water housing unit for my camera!

portraits of sayulita surfers

Another round of portraits of local surfers from Sayulita but this time i wanted to use lights. Amazingly this crew of surfers actually met up with me at their house in town just after dark.

Sayulita surfing

Portraits of Sayulita surfers

  

 

LA Times Mag on Surfing

http://www.latimes.com/features/magazine/west/la-tm-neil25jul29,1,4470566.story?coll=la-headlines-west&ctrack=1&cset=true

great story, sarcasm, and insight...