Edward Weston settled in Carmel in 1929 and began a long series of nature photographs, many of them taken at Point Lobos on the south side of Carmel Bay. In 1936 he became the first photographer to win a Guggenheim Fellowship.
He traveled and worked with Ansel Adams, who moved to the Carmel Highlands in 1962. In 1948, after Parkinson’s disease took hold, Weston took his last photograph, again at Point Lobos.
His work is a good reason to visit the reserve with a camera, and to look at the rocks and cypresses the way he did. Arnold Genthe, who joined the colony in 1906, had earlier written that the cypresses and rocks of Point Lobos, the changing sunsets and the shadows on the dunes gave a rich field for color experiments.