On Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, Laguna Art Museum hosted an event on the Main Beach of Laguna Beach, CA. Entitled the “Shoreline Project” was a community project based upon Elizabeth Turk’s art work. Hundreds of volunteers held led-lit umbrellas that featured Seashell Mandalas by Elizabeth Turk and moved around with them.

My friend and I arrived more than an hour prior to the start of the event and set up our cameras in a good vantage point. We were able to see the whole beach from the cliff; unfortunately the volunteer dancers did not move much away from their original location. I only took my Lensbaby lenses with me, and just one 85mm prime lens.

While we were waiting for the event, I captured the late afternoon beach with various LB lenses. On some of the following images you can see the group of volunteers dressed in black on the left side of the pictures.

As soon as the Sun set the Art Project started. The volunteers opened their led-lit umbrellas and slightly spread out. There was some music which we barely heard, and there was also some choreography which was not visible from this distance. Since I didn’t have any zoom lenses with me (on purpose), I decided to focus on capturing the lights with the different lenses. Here are my top six:

The green blob and line in the last two pictures is a drone which was filming the event. You can watch the short video on the Shoreline Project’s website.

The funnest part of the project for me personally was the huge crowd that it brought together. I’m glad I was able to be part of it.