View South, Manhattan Beach - Poster 16x36

02 View South Manhattan Beach CA 16x36 poster

Panorama coastal scene and view South with Manhattan Beach Pier, the strand, the bike path, the ocean (Santa Monica Bay), sandy beach and clear sky.

'View South'.

I had come across this view in the early 1980s'. After 1990 I began exclusively shooting photos with the Fuji617 Panorama format camera (4 shots per 120 roll) and in the early '90s I shot my first panorama of this scene. One sunny afternoon years later I revisited the location to update my older image. Things looked good so first I set up my 8ft ladder and composed the scene, then put in a roll of film and waited for the sun to get lower and things to be right. This panorama image turned out to be one of my all-time Classic South Bay photographs.