I had an all day photoshoot with Anoush Anou, an amazing art model with whom I’ve had the pleasure of working many times. We ended up traveling to a variety of locations around the Bay Area on what turned out to be a long, but fun day. Planning to shoot until the setting sun, to keep our shooting window reasonable we started the day relatively late. We began by going to Marshall’s Beach, a location that I’ve tried to shoot several times, but was previously stopped by large holiday crowds and limited parking. This is the northmost beach on the SF peninsula, just south of the Golden Gate Bridge. It’s a bit of a walk down (only ~ 1/2 mile, but steep), and was a challenging hike back up for me. It has some beautiful views of the bridge in the background, and we had good weather with some blue skies but a bit of haze to soften the midday sun. It’s somewhat notorious as a (gay) nude beach, but there were only a couple of people there and we were able to shoot without issue.
After that, we headed down to Land’s End in order to shoot around the Suttro Baths area. There were quite a few people there, but not too bad, and certainly not like on holiday weekends. I’ve been to that area a number of times before, but had never been down to the Baths (or what’s left of them). We were able to get some nice shots, and had another walk up a steep hill.
After having spent several hours around San Francisco, we head north into the Point Reyes National Seashore, by a very scenic but windy road, to see the famous boat wreck at the little town of Inverness. I had originally planned to spend a short time there, but it turned to be a good time for a break and to grab a little food. While it didn’t have many people around, we did have to wait a while for some visitors to clear out, then we got some nice shots. As we traveled this far north, the fog and cloudy weather was settling in, so my thoughts of having a sunset shoot up there disappeared. But the weather provided some nice moody atmosphere.
After we finished up there, we headed further north to Pierce Point Ranch. It provided some nice rustic shots with some moody and atmospheric clouds and fog. As my original schedule had slipped, this ended up being our last shooting location. Seeing as how we weren’t going to have a sunny sunset, the last beach location didn’t matter, and I really liked some of the shots we got at this final location. It had also gotten pretty cold and breezy, but we got in a full day’s worth of shooting. Anoush had been very generous with her time. Afterwards, we headed back to drop Anoush at her lodging, but because of some heavy construction traffic we didn’t get there till about 10 pm. I had left my house before 10 am and got home at 11 pm, pretty worn out, but happy after a fun and productive day of shooting.
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