This is Trestles.

A place you do not visit.

A place you return to.


Before or after a surf session, I snap one frame. Sometimes two. No planning. No fixing. Just whatever the beach gives me that day. Light. Wind. Stillness. Chaos.


Shot on black and white Ilford film with a Pentax K1000. Fully manual. No screen.


These images are meant to live off screens. On walls. In homes. In spaces where the ocean belongs even when you are far from it.


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Southern California. Orange County. San Clemente. Real places. Real light. Real film.

Black and white photograph of a scenic coastal beach with bicycles parked along wooden posts near the shoreline.
Black and white aerial footage shows a sequence of explosions and debris across a landscape.
A black and white vintage photograph shows ocean waves crashing against a rocky shoreline under a cloudy sky.
Vintage black and white photographs of a beach scene with umbrellas and people enjoying the seaside.
A panoramic black and white photograph of waves crashing on a rocky beach with dramatic ocean surf and coastline.
A rocky beach shore covered in countless smooth stones stretches toward the distant horizon and water.
Black and white aerial view of a beach landscape with palm trees and shoreline stretching into the distance.
Sunlight creates a shimmering reflection path across dark rippling ocean waters in black and white.