A few nice Santa Monica images I found:

Santa Monica Beach


Image by szeke
This is another shot from my outing to the Santa Monica Pier. I shot for HDR with -3, -1, 1 because the reflections are way too bright. My only attempt at merging in Photomatix failed miserably. My guess is that the light on the wheel changes way too fast. In the end, this is pretty much straight from the camera. I only reduced the brightness of the red reflection.

It is interesting that the reflection on the wet sand is red even though the lights on the wheel are yellow. In fact, I have many other shots where the colors of the reflections don’t match. Strange, the sand must absorb some colors.

Bike ride from Venice to Santa Monica


Image by tarabrown
About 50 people ooohed and awwwed as we rode the bike path from Venice to Santa Monica and back. Some yelled out "OMG look at that dog" or "He has swim goggles on" or "He has sunglasses" or "Doggles!!" for the educated. It was crazy how many responses we got!!