Stone Steps, a surf spot in Leucadia, California, was chosen in 1967 by Richard Dowdy and Jim Jenks as the location for a surf contest with a difference…

The PBS network will be premiering Marvin Hamlisch Presents The ’70s, The Way We Were, a concert featuring top acts from the 1970s’ music scene on PBS stations nationally during their August pledge drive.

Photo opportunities were plentiful and the people I met were enjoyable to talk with. The winding roads (Highway 1 south) were as twisty as Big Sur’s Highway 1, with little opportunity to find a place to pull off to shoot the vistas below. Except for a brief visit to San Francisco, I avoided the cities and towns. The results of my eight-day run up the coast and back are below.

Talented sisters the Lovells from Georgia are featured in Georgia magazine’s March, 2010 issue, with photographs (including the cover shot) by Studio 2055′s Richard Dowdy, house photographer for Acoustic Music San Diego’s eclectic music series, now in its sixth year.

Story and Photos by Richard Dowdy It’s an exceptional music series that has been ongoing for six years in an unlikely location. Acoustic Music San Diego (AMSD) is the creation of jovial Carey Driscoll, a dedicated music lover and promoter who has a knack of choosing great performers. Whether famous or unknown,or the soon to [...]

As a photographer, my primary focus is on action: Indycars at Indianapolis and other tracks, musicians on stage, and surfing in California. In the summer of 2008, along with others, I waited for big south swells to hit our shores. But the one California break that is as enormously photogenic as any on the coast didn’t come alive.

In the late 1950s, some brave bodysurfers who had been watching The Wedge with understandable trepidation, ventured out, rode some waves, and survived.

Following a summer of insignificant swells in 2008, The Wedge finally came alive as a large south swell generated from Tahiti struck on Friday, July 24.