"A Different Light" Californian Mono Lake Landscape Photography, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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This collection covers two very different parts of California: the Southern California coast around La Jolla and San Diego, and Mono Lake, an ancient alkaline lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada. They don't have much in common visually — one is classic Pacific coastline, the other is closer to an alien landscape — which is part of the point of putting them together here rather than treating California as one uniform place to photograph.
"The Path" The Famous La Jolla Pier, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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La Jolla Pier is one of the most recognizable landmarks on the San Diego coastline — a wooden pier running out over the Pacific, photographed here from an angle that lets the structure's converging lines lead the eye straight out toward the horizon. Two different pieces in this collection use it: one from the pier itself, one from the beach below at sunset.
"Masquerade" San Diego Beach, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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Every piece in this collection is made to order and personally signed, printed on archival Fujiflex paper or as a Lumachrome TruLife acrylic face-mount. San Diego's coast reads well as a large panoramic piece given how much of the frame is usually open sky and water.
"And Atlantis Falls" Tufa Mono Lake Nature Photography, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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The tufa towers scattered across Mono Lake — the subject of two pieces in this collection — are calcium carbonate formations that grew underwater, where calcium-rich freshwater springs met the lake's alkaline water. They were only exposed once the lake level dropped, starting in the 1940s when Los Angeles began diverting the streams that fed it. Nothing else in California looks quite like them, which is exactly why they show up twice here.
"Carved In Stone" La Jolla Beach, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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A Quieter Stretch Of Coast Near San Francisco
"The Calling" moves away from the two named landmarks in this collection to a quieter stretch of beach near San Francisco — proof that the coastline doesn't need a famous pier or a well-known lighthouse to hold a large-format print. Sometimes an empty beach at the right hour is the whole composition.
"The Calling" Californian Beach Near San-Francisco, Limited Edition Print, California, USA.
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A California Lighthouse, In The Peter Lik Tradition
"Isolation" closes out this collection with a different subject entirely — a lighthouse on the California coast, shot in the same bold, high-contrast style associated with Peter Lik's landscape work. Where the Mono Lake and La Jolla pieces lean toward wide, open compositions, this one is built around a single vertical structure standing apart from everything around it — which is really what "Isolation" is about.
"Isolation" Californian Lighthouse, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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"Nightfire" Mono Lake Tufa Rocks, Limited Edition Photo Print, California, USA.
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California is part of the full American Landscape Photography collection, which also covers Utah's canyons, Wyoming's mountains, and more.
Alexander Vershinin
professional photographer