Big Sur Beauty
I recently spent a weekend camping and hiking in Big Sur, CA and was shocked it’s taken me three years in California to make it here. Spectacular.
Turquoise Passage
Tan Bark Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
These fire-scarred trees reminded me of an octopus
Banana slug reaching (slowly) towards the light
Sun setting over Partington Cove in JPB State Park
Sea anemone snacking on escargots
Morning fog blanketing the pines of JPB State Park. This view is from the patio of Cafe Kevah- an AMAZING brunch spot on Highway 1 in Big Sur.
Driftwood shelter on the beach in Andrew Molera State Park
Towering redwoods on the Tan Bark Trail in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
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Creek in McWay Canyon, JPB State Park
Creek in McWay Canyon
Sunlit treetops in McWay Canyon.
Looking north from Overlook Trail at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
McWay Falls in Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
Towering Redwoods at our campsite.
A view from the floor of our campsite in Big Sur
Sunlit cove along Highway 1
Iris in Monterey.
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awesome…..
glorious! love those trees.
Those redwoods were indeed towering!
Beautiful place! Cool photos but I bet it is even better irl.
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You know, I haven’t been to Big Sur in years — it’s truly a mesmerizing place. I live in northern Nevada, but it’s WELL worth the trip…thanks for the inspiration to plan a future trip!
Wow, your photography is magical!! The trees are especially beautiful =)
Absolutely beautiful! How surreal it must have been to witness all of this first hand!!
Your a mighty fine salesman with these pictures. See you soon Big Sur!
This is a great blog! Would you mind if I used some of the pics for my own?
Thanks! No problem, just throw in a link to my site and Twitter.
Incredibly beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing these.
Fantastic photos! I’ve been to Big Sur a couple of times and was awed both times. Such spectacular beauty there in the trees, mountains, and ocean. Thanks for posting these wonderful photos. Now I REALLY want to back!!
Unreal.
WOW WOW WOW ! Amazing !
OMG !! The tree pics are awesome. I can imagine the way you must be holding your camera in order to capture those pics
And yeah, the best one (timing) I liked was the Banana Slug !! Half light …and half dark…Such a creative and inspiring pic !! Cheers
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Wow these are gorgeous pictures. I’ve always wanted to visit!
These are brilliant!
I’m an amateur photographer. Just starting out. Do pay a visit.
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Thanks! I enjoyed your site a lot- great photoss! Where were those of the kids taken?
Gorgeous. Reminds me of some places in Mexico
Beautiful photos! Well, except for the one of the banana slug. That thing is gross.
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Awesome photos!! It’s been awhile since I’ve been there and I miss it … my favorite place in all of California!!
Congrats on being freshly pressed!!
Beautiful photos! I love the perspective of the trees in your shots.
Thanks!
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Well done. I always wanted to go there myself. The stuff of legend.
verry nice site
These are gorgeous photos, I really love the bannana slug!
Dear lord these are beautiful, I miss my time in Big Sur, I actually have just begun writing again for my photo blog. I only run 35 mm camera photo, and don’t edit. I’d love if you gave some feedback. It’s more of apersonal blog so there’s quite a bit of writing in between.
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Very beautiful photos.
Wow, beautiful place! So are your photos. I lived in CA for four years and moved to Texas. Why didn’t I know of the place.
Beautiful photos!
Stunning photos!
Very beautiful.
What absolutlely gorgeous photos, I want to visit this amazing place. Great to see such vibrant glimpses of life on a dreary winter day, thanks for sharing!
Wow…those pictures are fantastic!
WOW, WOW WOW! These photos are AMAZING! Thanks for sharing them.
Congrats on making it to Big Sur.
Wow!
Big Sur is sooo amazing. And you’ve captured it very well. Boo! Now I’m homesick!
Your site is a treat.
You have beautiful photos.
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I think this might be my favorite place in the country. It seems to be so open and free. Liberated from all external pressures. I love, especially, the banana slug.
LOVE Big Sur
the fog picture = favourite
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So beautiful! Thank you for sharing your pictures – I’ve wanted to go for a while now, and your pic’s just re-ignited that. Can’t wait…
Picture number two is awsm, I kept thinking “where are the Ewoks?!?!?!” xD
Well done.
Fantastic stuff
This is a beautiful post! When I visit CA, this is on my list! xX
Gorgeous.
So lovely. I was just speaking with a friend last night about a possible trip to Big Sur (I’ve meant to go for years). Now I must go! Thank you for sharing!
I really enjoyed viewing the photos. Every day I dream of driving down to Big Sur.
great photos. looks like an awesome hike, can’t wait to go back up to BIg Sur soon!
Looks amazing and I would love to go sometime. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this beautiful spot. I now have a new spot to visit the next time I’m in California. Just gorgeous.
I used to live in Monterey and visited Big Sur many times.. Beautiful pictures.. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!!
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That is absolutely gorgeous. Ill be making a trip there and this wasn’t on my list of must see’s. It is now!
Thanks for sharing!
Loving your photos and some beautiful country to explore in Big Sur:) Congrats on being FP!
I could stare at he rocks and water all day. Always gorgeous!
Stunning! I want to go there.
Wonderful Amazing pictures. My wife is dying to see the big redwood trees… We love to go camping and one day I am going to have to cave in and take her.
Absolutely stunning!
Superb photography!
FANTASTIC! I simply love all these shots and you have seemed to capture the essence of sunsets shots of the water in that lighting perfectly!
Those photo’s are incredible!!!!! turquoise passage looks unreal
Keep it going!
Cool pics
Beautiful photos! Congrats making freshly pressed
Priceless
Just wrote a short memoir “Darkness in Big Sur” for my California Writers Club anthology “Call of the Wild.” Loved seeing your photos.
Wow! Your pictures are amazing! I want to go here now.
Beautiful photos! Compliments. Thank you for sharing. Greetings from Italy.
Amazing photographs-it was incredibly difficult to resist the urge to dive through my laptop screen into the beautiful sceneries
The elements of Nature are represented in such vivid, incredible ways. The colors and realness in your photographs are outstanding.
Lovely pictures! They bring back such good memories, I visited California last July and driving along Highway 1 seeing places like Monterey and Big Sur was amazing! I just loved the place!
Thanks for bringing the banana slug to my attention!
beautiful!
oh so jealous. We had a trip to California booked last winter but it was canceled when the airports were closed in the deep snow.
I remember you guys!
I was the girl who told you the bridge was out at Andrew Molera State Park
small world
-michelle
Crazy! It is definitely a small world! Thanks for the advice, it was a great hike!
-Diane
^_^ No problem!
If you are ever on the east coast feel free to hit me up. I’m moving back there is a few weeks and if you liked Big Sur you would LOVE the Blue Ridge Mountains!!
-Michelle
Love this! I’m going to be spending a part of spring break here, excited to see all of this in person
I wonder what part of the USA that would be most comparable too, relatively speaking… northern CA coast, maybe…
Beautiful – you have a real eye for photography.
Beautiful pictures, thanks for sharing!
I was just there last weekend and it really is gorgeous! The weather was perfect when I was in town!
awsome!
Gorgeous photos of one of the most gorgeous places!
WOW! God’s nature is so much a gift. Even tho I have never been here, your photo makes me feel like I am standing right their with you. Thanx for sharing it!
Wow, these photos are spectacular! I can’t wait to make it out there now! Thanks for sharing!
Ever since I was in my 20s (20 years ago) and I read “Big Sur” by Jack Kerouac, I have wanted to visit Big Sur. Your photographs with that impossible blue water and those tall trees stir up those old longings. Gorgeous photos!
Those views are enticingly beautiful and vivid! Great captured photos!
Big Sur…a favorite of mine. Great photos!
I’m travelling with someone from Monterey, and she’s told me about 456,839 times that I need to go to Big Sur- these only emphasis her insistence. The fog blanket photo is incredible. Thank you.
i love your photos. Thanks for sharing that to those who haven’t been there. Maybe you can shoot some of your future photos here in the Philippines. So many beautiful scenery that will feed your artistic hunger for beauty.
Looks like a wonderful hike.
Love your photos!!!
Wow, that is spectacular! I have never been to Big Sur, but it has been on my to-do list for a while! Wonderful photos!
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Beautiful pictures !
Beautiful photos!
Your pictures are amazing! Such clarity!
Haven’t been there in over 40 years, but still remember being overcome by its beauty. Wonderful photographs, thank you for posting them.
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Cool photos. Being in nature is truly amazing!
absolutely gorgeous!! i have not been to big sure in two years- looks like i am definitely due for a road trip!!!
looks awesome!!!!
The former home of Henry Miller…oh I can’t wait to go someday!
So beautiful, thanks for taking us along! I’ve never been to Big Sur but I used to live on the north coast (in Humboldt) and I miss the coast like I’m missing a limb. Thanks for giving me a little taste of home.
So beautiful. Spent my honeymoon there.
Breathtaking photos! I especially like the morning fog photo and the photo of The Creek at McWay Canyon. Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Absolutely gorgeous shots!!!
Is so nice, amazing… wow
Stunning photos! Big Sur is one of the most awesome spots in America!!
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Big Sur…Ah! One of the serene places which offers cinematic beauty. I had been planning it earlier but it hasnt happended yet. My interest for hiking, mountain climbing, and other outdoor activities always made me want to visit it…some day soon!!
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Wow…I want to go there right now! Great pics!
I miss Big Sur so much! Thank you for the gorgeous visit, beautifully done.
Was that one beach with the wrap around rocks that go into the water from the beginning of Grease? And I think Love is a many splendid thing or something? These photos are just gorgeous! Now I need to go again. Love the banana slug!
Stunning photos. Simply gorgeous.
Awesome
The trees are great. I can’t help myself from looking up if I was there.
Beautiful country, I love it!
Fantastic photos of nature really breathtaking. Thanks for sharing this.
Oh…your photos are gorgeous and they are from one of my all-time favorite places! Big Sur is so magical and I love camping there too. Your photos brought back many memories of my last camp trip there (3 years ago) and make me want to go back! Thank you for taking beautiful pics of some of my favorite things!
Its so beautiful !!!
that first shot is pure vertigo. these photos make me really miss the place
I have been down to Santa Barbara years ago when I was still living in the US.
Never have seen something beautiful like Big Sur and the pics are excellent.
The photos are great! Now I can’t wait to start camping this year!
Speechless with beauty! Thanks for taking me there.
such beautiful shots.
Stunning. I want to go there.
Wow, beautiful images!
How absolutely blissful.. you’ve captured the best that nature has to offer -thanks!!
Great photos!
Perfect!
beautiful place！and beautiful people!
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So much of the world to see, so little time.
Wonderfully inspiring pics…. made me smile on such a glum grey day. Beautiful.
Wow, so beautiful! *.*
Wonderful pictures! I do miss California. Thanks for taking me back down memory lane.
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Beautiful
Stunning. I’m off to Monteray in the Summer and will be going to Ben Sur now. WOW Stunning photos.
Your picture captured the beauty really well! I use to spend Summer”s in Big Sur I have lots of fond memories. Thank You for your pictures it was great to see just how beautiful Big Sur is it’s nice to see photos instead of just the thought and memories in my head. Thanks.
Magnificent photos! . . . Love the Big Sur area!! Thank you for sharing your wonderful pictures!
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Those pictures are a beauty, reminds me exactly why I love to travlel so much. thank you.
Beautiful.
I lived in Monterey for a few years–the drive down to Big Sur either as a destination or on the way somewhere else was my all time favorite! Thanks for bringing back the memories…:-)
fantastic photos – I discovered the stunning sights of Big Sur and JPB Park during a California road trip last summer. You’ve done a great job in capturing it!
Your photographs made me think of Richard Brautigan’s Trout Fishing in America, and his adventures at Big Sur. It’s so beautiful and you’ve captured it – well, just a bit of it. I especially love the two pictures at McWay Falls. In That first photo the clouds are forming a natural amphitheater over the water as it fans toward the shore. And the colors! Wow. The blue, the aqua, the white and the brown. Takes my beath.
Wonderful pics!
Last year I did a road trip from LA to Seattle but missed out on doing anything special around Big Sur. Now I definitely know where to go next time I pass by the area.
Thanks for inspiration!
wow amazing……
Sweet – cant wait to go in June!!
Great pictures, love the tree shots and congrats on your sucsess.
lovely photos!
Absolutely amazing.
These photos are amazing! Great job
I love it and now I want to go visit so… you should get paid by somebody’s tourism company.
Wow, this is glorious. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful. what an amazing place.
Great photos…now I gotta go. Thanks.
I actually smelt sea-air for a moment there…
Amazing, bot scenery AND photographer! ^^
Beautiful pictures! It can be so difficult to capture trees like that but you sure figured it out!
so beautiful, thanks for this post.
Beautiful photos. I’ve been to Big Sur, and it really is a magical place!
This is a lovely picture. The blue instantly caught my eye!
beautiful pictures. Did you read any Jack Kerouac while you traveled Big Sur?
You r so talented with taking pix. They r so inspiring, thanks for sharing
Gorgeous photos.
Drove up the coast hwy back in the 1970′s . . . the banana slug was the first bit of wildlife I saw . . . went on to Pt. Lobos, Carmel and Monterey. Nice photos . . .
wow! very heartwarming photos! i love how you captured nature’s beauty! <3
wow friend …. the richness of colours is breathtaking … the green of the water is beautiful to feast your eye on and the redwoods are overpowering their grandeur. Thanks for being freshly pressed so I could see the pics too.
Stunning photos. Well done!
This is why we live here! Thanks so much for sharing!
My wife and I went there for our honeymoon, but most of Big Sur was closed due to forest fires.
Glad you guys made it!
such beautiful pictures! big sur is SO beautiful! love your morning fog pic!
beautiful pictures-thank you very much
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June? July? Weekend trip?
January weekend
Some gorgeous shots here. Really makes me feel like I’m there, congrats!
I loved looking at your photos, so beautiful…a moment well caught.
Beautiful pictures. Thanks for sharing them!
Beautiful! And that is from a person in BC Canada.
Sheer beauty, another place to visit on my wish-list.
I love the colors in your first photo…the blue of the water versus the orange moss on the rocks. It looks like a great place to hike and camp.
Wonderful photography. I really like forest and ocean scenes like these. Connie
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SO BEAUTIFUL! my friends & I have been looking for a place to camp this summer and a lot of the best spots were sold out already…this looks like an AMAZING alternative =)
Amazing my friend, I did the drive from San Fran to LA last year and this made the long trip so worth it – one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen, I wish i did what you guys did and camped out – love the images too!!
Brilliant, blissful, glorious! Thanks so much for sharing.
these pictures are mind blowing..i loved the one with the sea anemone..beautiful trip
The Richest and most fabulous of colours!
It’s interesting how you tuned the color on some of these shots. I like how you used more of a sepia tone on some of them, giving them that “old fashioned” feel. Also, I’m a sucker for tuned up greens… you would probably really love taking a trip to the Columbia River Gorge area in Oregon, it’s so lush and green there and the shots you can get are amazing.
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Those are some of the most beautiful photos I have ever seen. Breathtaking.
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Apparently, I need to stop and not just drive leisurely along this glorious stretch of Highway 1. Beautiful photographs, thank you for sharing.
wow looks like an awsome adventure for sure.. im from the northwest my self and have recently seen crator lake and diamond lake as well as a motorcycle trip to glacier montana… SUPER pics. thanks for sharing with the world. ohh, you might enjoy my region im from the columbia gorge.. look for some pics on my page. work in progress i must say though. my site is 3days old.
Absolutely fantastic group of shots… <3 Well done, Diane..!
Love it… great capture!!!
so beautiful !!!!
Fantastic photos. I have forgotton how magnificent Big Sur is.
Great photos, and you look like a lovely couple.
When I’ll come to California with my wife (http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/maryam-andreas/), I’d love to bump into you guys during a hike.
love it
Hands down, my favorite place on earth (well so far anyway)! Thanks for sharing your beautiful photos.
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Amazing pictures… Cant wait to go to Big Sur!!
My sister lives in Carmel-by-the-Sea and when I’ve been to visit her in the last couple of years, I’ve always been in absolute awe of the beauty of Big Sur… Thanks for sharing your photos…
Wow. Those are gorgeous. Thanks for sharing this!
The colors are so vivid, they don’t even seem real! Amazing pictures!
I was raised in Monterey Ca. It’s awesome to see people coming to visit Big Sur. Amazing photographs. Keep up the great work
So beautiful. It has been a couple of years since I visited – ready to go back now… Thanks!
Wow, you’ve got some eye for pictures and beauty. Really great shots. Makes me want to go back to Big Sur and go up and down that lovely highway.
Big Sur is beautiful and you captured it well! We love it so much, we try to get out there every year.
Big Sur sure is a spectacular place. It’s natural beauty makes all others pale in comparison. I’m surprised you’ve been in California for three years and you’re only going to Big Sur now. If I lived in California, it would be checked off on my to do list within the first year.
Oh my gosh how beautiful. What kind of camera do you use? These photos are incredible.
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Awesome images.
Great shots and helpful for someone planning to go there. I’v been there but only stop by take pictures then continue the road trip to SF
Beautiful spots– been there a lot and one of my favorite places to shoot. Thanks!
wow…great photos!hope i’ll be there someday
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I like the photo,sometime I want go to there….
Amazing. This place is really awesome. Also, great photos.
Thanks for bringing Big Sur to my laptop!
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I am at a loss for words. These pictures are stunning.
I’m hopefully going to make it up there soon. Can’t wait. Beautiful place and beautiful photos.
Truly awesome!
Beautiful shots. Makes me miss Cali even more.
JPB State Park is one of the most beautiful places in the world! Thanks for sharing.
These photos are beautiful. I will have to check this place out!
stunning! CA is awesome, the best state in the country!!!
gorgeous! I’ve been living in California for over 6 years and still haven’t made it up there… fail.
Definitely on my list of places to go in the near future:
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Wow. Fairytale land. I live in the boreal forest of Canada – a very different experience.
I really like the sunset shot with the person sitting on the rocks. Very nice composition.
Lovely pictures! Thanks for sharing!
fab photos!
Great pictures!
The colors are great!
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Beautiful!!!!!!!!!! This makes me want to travel more!
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The Turquoise Passage photo is awesome and while slugs are disgusting, the color of the Banana Slug is gorgeous.
The Turquoise Passage photo is awesome and while slugs are disgusting, the color of the Banana Slug is gorgeous.
WOW!! Amazing pictures! Wow! I’m going to be coming back to these shots again. Thanks for sharing. Congrats on being FP. Look forward to checking out more of your posts and seeing what’s to come.
Fabulous series of big Sur shots! Turquoise Passage is exquisite. Well done!
Usually I don’t read post on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very compelled me to check out and do so! Your writing style has been amazed me. Thank you, quite nice post.
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What a beautiful place to visit!
These pictures are amazing! I love pictures of nature. Stunning.
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Amazing! Thanks for sharing.
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Big Sur CA. Espectacular lugar para ir a conocer
Thanks for the post. We drove our giant motorhome through Big Sur last summer and missed most of the beauty because we were too worried about staying alive, next time we will take the mini cooper. Read about our experience at http://artspiritvillage.com/2011/08/26/an-artists-summer-vacation-big-sur-no-you-really-are-too-big-sir/
Beautiful photographs! I’m camping in Big Sur later this summer and I hope I can catch shots half as amazing as yours! Thanks for sharing!
Big Sur….my haunts from earlier days. It’s still as gorgeous. Thanks for sharing your magnificent photos!