Photographer captures proposal, but who was the romantic couple?
by Mark McDermott Pete Halvorsen was in a hurry, walking along The Strand just north of the Manhattan Beach pier when he saw something that made him stop. It was the day of the eclipse, April 8, late in the afternoon. The winds were gusting at 35 miles per hour. A couple was in the […]
Photographing the South Bay Lightning without getting hit
After he got an alert about strange weather coming to Manhattan Beach, local photographer Pete Halvorsen snapped into action. “That seemed like a really good opportunity to go the beach,” says Halvorsen, who lives in East Manhattan. After all, it’s not every day we see thunder and lighting in the South Bay. Richard Podgurski Jr., […]