June 7, 2015: Crystal Cove and Laguna Beach with Alex

copyright Casondra Sobieralski 2015

A short but fun hike followed by a quick dip at the shore.  A Sunday, but we both had lots of work to do! Click on images for large/detailed views. 

I like this one because it seems like it is in dialogue with the Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra.  The postures of the young people remind me of her figures, but the background strategy is 180-degrees opposite of her flattened, minimal backgrounds. 

 I (accidentally) found I can get backgrounds like that if I use a deep depth of field for something very close, like the inverse of what you are "supposed" to do.  [See a blog post back in March 2014, a trip to Tennessee Valley with my friend Juniper.]