Waves at Venice Beach, CA

The third black and white water photo from my most recent visit to Venice Beach.

Venice Beach, CA

Another black and white photo of the water from my recent drive down to Venice, California.

The pier at Venice Beach allows you to walk safely out to the point where the waves break.

I drove down to Santa Monica to meet some friends and we decided to head over to Venice Beach and walk around a bit.

One of the nice things about this beach is the Pier that extends out into the break of the waves. There may be others, but this is the only one I’ve seen so far where the pier extends out this far. This allowed me to get this perspective that I would not have been able to get otherwise.

The conversion to black and white was done entirely in Photoshop Lightroom 5 with the aid of Kubota the Blacksmith preset available from Kubota Image Tools.