Photo Walk: Paying Attention to the Details

Photo Walk: At the Beach

Often all you need to do to see something old in a whole new way is to take a walk with someone different!  This week I took a walk to the beach in La Jolla, CA with an 8 year old friend.  Oh how many details I miss when she is not around!  Do you see any details we missed?

Enjoy!

On the way to the beach we saw this rose. It seemed to be frozen in time or covered with wax. It was real and alive and very beautiful though!

Check out the swirling pattern years of wind and sand left on this rock.

Even on a chilly December day the tide pools were teaming with life.

How many times have I walked by this stairway and missed the details? Funny how a new set of eyes makes all the difference!

We noticed 2 really cool things in this scene — the big splash on the rocks and our shadows! We look so distorted with sun shining behind us, low in the winter sky.

Awesome lighting in this photo taken just as the sun was about to start its decent for the day.

It is the beginning of seal pupping season at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla Cove. We spotted one of the very first pups of the year!

Who’s print is that????

Hmmm… not sure everyone in this scene is paying attention…!

We, and this surfer, milked the very last moments out of the day. What a beautiful, crowning moment for all of us!

Would you like to take a Photo Walk and share it with us?   Send me an email:  ruth@craniumcrunches.com

Brain Puzzle and Photography

Weekly Brain Challenge

Good Morning and Happy Monday!  It’s the start of another work week and it’s time to wake up your brain with this week’s Find the Difference puzzle.  A lot of the pictures for our puzzles come from our travels around the world, but this puzzle comes from a walk around my little neighborhood, Ocean Beach, California.  Ocean Beach is a little under 1.5 square miles, but has a population of 12,419 people, making 8, 708 people per square mile!  Needless to say, we all live on top of each other here and there is A LOT of character everywhere you look, so a picture walk through this town will definitely leave you with a lot of fun shots.  The puzzle below is a Level 3 puzzle, so it has 9 changes total…happy hunting!  Below the puzzle I’ve posted some more pictures of Ocean Beach for you to enjoy 🙂

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Can you find the 9 changes in this puzzle?

One of the most beautiful sunsets I’ve seen in Ocean Beach. Taken in September 2011.

Another pretty sunset at the Ocean Beach Pier. The pier is 1,971 feet long and is the second longest pier on the west coast. Taken in July 2006.

Multiple surf breaks combined with San Diego’s awesome weather make Ocean Beach a surfer’s paradise. This is looking south from the pier toward Sunset Cliffs. This guy is about to shoot the pier! Taken in January 2012.

Last one! This is looking north from the pier. You can see the jetty which has San Diego River on one side and Mission Bay on the other and La Jolla Peninsula in the far distance. Taken in January 2012.