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| VIEW FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS BY JOE PAYNE PHOTOGRAPHY BY MARK NAKAMURA Seasoned photographers such as Mark Nakamura can do it all: weddings, portraits, sports, you name it. But for the retired elementary school teacher who is now devoted to his passion fulltime, landscape photography gets him up early for sunrises and keeps him out late for sunsets. However, it was at a recent game between San Luis Obispo and Arroyo Grande high schools’ football teams that his passion for photography, his community, and the natural world came together in one perfect frame. “I was photographing the football game and there was a timeout on the field and I was on the opposite side looking towards the sunset across the field and I noticed how beautiful the sky was,” Nakamura said. “I thought it was the juxtapose of the rough and tumble football game versus the serene sunset that made a good balance.” Nakamura lives for a sunset or sunrise photo-op, literally getting up as early as 3:00 a.m. and hoofing it up a mountainside in the dark to be ready to catch a newly-illuminated vista. There are many favored spots around the city and throughout its surroundings, from the peaks of the Seven Sisters to the beaches of Montaña de Oro. The football games at San Luis Obispo High School are a regular haunt for Nakamura, as well. “About four or five of the kids on the senior high school varsity football team for San Luis Obispo were in my kindergarten or fifth grade class over at Sinsheimer [Elementary School], so it was nice to see them grown up and doing well, performing and doing their best,” Nakamura said. “And, they won the game.” For most of his sports shots, Nakamura relies on his telephoto lens, but he almost always has two cameras at the ready, he explained. So during the timeout, when he noticed the pastel sunset behind the glaring green of the gridiron, he grabbed his backup camera outfitted with a 24-70mm zoom lens. Beside a simple “spotlight” effect done in Lightroom to brighten up Arroyo Grande’s huddled football team in the foreground, Nakamura said that what you see is what he shot. It was just the right moment to catch the sunset, something he’s used to scaling mountains and waiting patiently to capture. “This was kind of like the calm in the storm with the timeout and the two teams battling it out for supremacy, so I thought it was quite a serene place to catch that moment.” It’s moments like that, whether on the sidelines of a SLO High game or up on Bishop Peak, that Nakamura sees an endless fountain of inspiration in the town he calls home. “I do love traveling, but some of the best vistas and the best scenery is right here in the county,” he shares, “and especially San Luis Obispo.” SLO LIFE JOE PAYNE is a journalist, as well as a lifelong musician and music teacher, who loves writing about the arts on the Central Coast, especially music, as well as science, history, nature, and social issues. 32 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | OCT/NOV 2019
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