SANTA CRUZ LIVE is an on-going project involving candid, long exposure, photographs of ordinary people doing ordinary things. All of the photographs were taken within the city limits of Santa Cruz, California. They were also taken with the same shutter speed, camera and lens, and the camera is always hand held. The long shutter speed gives these photographs an artistic blur effect, sometimes just giving the photo a soft focus effect, sometimes conveying motion.

There are two collections, Black and White photographs which were taken at night and Color taken during the day. All of the Black and White photos not only use the same shutter speed but also the same aperture. The Color shots use the same shutter speed as the Black and White but use different apertures for the correct exposure.

Selecting one of the main selections below will cause a new window with that collection to appear. If you would like to investigate purchasing rights to any of these photos, the instructions you need are on the main STOCK page linked to below.