Santa Monica Training Wheels

Perfect place to practice street photography. Anyone I’ve shot with here says the same thing. The beach is hard to shoot at. I think it’s the lack of interesting light bouncing off tall buildings, everything is wide open. Compositions are more difficult. Backgrounds are messy. A lot of the time there’s isn’t much going on. It’s a bit sleepy. It’s the 102nd most dense neighborhood in LA county. But there’s enough action to train yourself. Especially on weekends. So if one can manage to make good work here, I suppose it’s one step closer to mastery.