Point Loma Lighthouse. San Diego, California

"As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs."

-Sam Abell

Up the Down Staircase. View from inside of the lighthouse. Peering up the spiral staircase which accesses the large Fresnel lens beacon above.

Lighthouse keeper's desk. Actual period pieces representing the 1850's. The lighthouse was built in 1855.

Next, we venture into the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California.