David Royal Photography » Cowell’s Beach

Coming Full circle

Royal — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 07:35:46 +0000

I shot some portraits for my former wrestling coach at Santa Cruz High the other day. His daughter was getting ready for her first communion. He worked with me for six years through junior high and high school. There I was, quite a few years later on the beach we’d run soft sand sprints on while training. Here are just a few of my favorites from the day. We had been shooting in the open on Cowell’s Beach when I suggested we try a few more frames under the Santa Cruz Wharf.It was at the very end that her mother said she was studying ballet. And it was then, with a symphony of seagulls, barking seals and the wharf creaking from the cars rolling overhead, that she started to dance.

New Dawn Amongst the Rubble

Royal — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:54:00 +0000

As I finally make a move to update my website I have begun scouring my dusty collection of DVDs and other files that have accumulated on my hard drive. I’m looking for images that might make it to my new site. In this process I have started to uncover a few gems that had have been hidden amongst the rubble… I have also come across quite a bit of “almost there” images… frames that were good at the time, but merely just a step in the learning process. And one of the biggest things I’ve come to realize I am in need of some serious organization. So I even bought a hard drive to help me make some sense of these things. So here goes! Ugh! I hope to have this together by next Christmas.