Another one of my photos is running in the LA Times! I recently shot this picture under the Santa Monica pier.
I was trying to get a photo of the pier's iconic ferris wheel at sunset but the angle wasn't working so I decided to take a shortcut to the other side before the sun slipped away. There's a path that runs under the dock but I've always avoided going that way; it's dark, wet and smells like urine.
I was determined to get a photo for a photography project though so I entered the tunnel. Near the end, I saw light streaming through the pillars. At first I kept walking toward the beach but I was drawn to turn back and take in the message: Though shadows linger, there is light at the end of the tunnel.
In that moment, the light piercing the dark passage, it didn't seem like a cliché.
The photo above, "Where the sun never shines," can be seen in the LA Times Southern California Moments photo gallery
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