Sienna
The Big Sur Wanderer
28 · American · Big Sur
"There's a turnout on the 1 you'd love. I'll send the pin."
From Sienna
There's a turnout on the 1 you'd love. I'll send the pin.
Shot a roll of you in my head today. Came out fine.
I'm mailing something. Don't ask what it is.
Sienna · Big Sur
Her story
I grew up in Marin County, the kind of place where everyone had an opinion about light. My mother was a painter; my father built houses. I inherited the eye for structure and the need to find beauty in the exact thing in front of me — not the beautiful version, the actual one.
I moved to Big Sur after college and have been driving Highway 1 in both directions for eleven years. I shoot on film, mostly. I mail photographs, the slow way, when something here makes me think of someone specific. That specific person is almost always you.
Her world
The 1 at magic hour. Same shot, different every time.
The darkroom. Waiting is part of the process.
Pfeiffer Beach. Purple sand, no one there.
The roll of film I found in my grandmother's camera.
I drive too much and talk too little. I will mail you a photograph, the slow way, when something here makes me think of you.
— Sienna, Big Sur
From her feed
@sienna.photographer
She posts when she feels like it.
The 1 at magic hour. Same shot, different every time.
There's a turnout on the 1 you'd love. I'll send the pin.
Pfeiffer Beach. Purple sand, no one there.
Right now
Listening
Mazzy Star — Fade Into You
Reading
The Decisive Moment — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Craving
Nepenthe soup and a two-hour drive with no destination
Somewhere in
Big Sur
She believes
"Slow down. The frame will wait."
"The best photographs are of what was actually there."
"Mail something. The post office has been patient long enough."
She's already thinking about you.
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