by beachraven | Aug 27, 2021
Topatopa Mountains, Ojai, CA I was having “one of those days.” At least that’s what I thought. We dropped our car off for its “free” regular maintenance only to learn it would be very expensive. A job I thought I was getting fell through. Finally, the costly...
by beachraven | Jun 11, 2021
Monterey Bay, California The bay looks different every day. I can’t ride my bike past it without taking photos, so I have about ten million of them. Storm clouds with a choppy surface give it a dark-grey moody feel, cold and brooding, angry and...
by beachraven | Jan 23, 2021
Sunrise at Monterey Bay, California It always seems to happen; I never know how I’m going to feel. I was surprised the day after we got married by how good I felt and was struck entirely off guard when I saw my first album credit. Of course, this time, I knew...
by beachraven | Nov 20, 2020
The wind blew. A morning sun angled through the trees, and chimes in the neighborhood rang an alarm of something approaching with a howling from above in the pine trees and a deep gust creating wave-like splashes of leaves and foam rolling from the fallen red and...
by beachraven | Oct 17, 2020
Monterey Bay, Monterey, California When something isn’t working in the recording studio, it can be a task to figure out what’s wrong. The first thing we do is follow the signal flow from one point to another until we find the breakpoint, but often...
