The last week before solstice, December 14-20th was a good one. Winter swell; great food, drink and smoke; and the usual awesome December light combined for some nice images. Here are the top-ten photos from the week.

Monday morning started out with offshore winds, nice light, and swell.

Awesome light for photographing this Cali Creamin’ beerski at Mission St. BBQ.

The mornings were cold but pretty, early in the week.

Photographed the amazing food at Palacio Los Gatos on Wednesday.

Got to photograph Big Pete’s garden. He’s producing some fine medical cannabis.

Preacher Boy was howlin’ on Thursday evening at Aptos St. BBQ, like he usually does.

The rain brought some sweet photo-ops for the newly released Ginger’s Winter Warmer at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, one of the prettiest beers around.

Picasso is the truth. The Literary Guillotine is my favorite bookstore.

Big Jon has a cool sound, like a soundtrack to some post-noir crime flick.

I liked this photo for all of the diagonals.

Bitchin’ week, hope you like the photes, folks!