One of the most distinctive features of the Laguna Beach coastline is the "Pirate Tower" which is located on Victoria Beach. The tower was built in 1926 for the family of William E. Brown, a state senator representing California's 37th district.
Brown sold the property in the 1940s to a retired Naval officer from Los Angeles named Harold Kendrick. It was then that the building took on a pirate-related mystique. Kendrick was known for dressing himself up as a seafaring plunderer and hiding coins in the tower's many crevices. Neighborhood kids would scour the staircase for hidden treasure, and what they found, they were allowed to keep.
Victoria Beach is easily one of my favorite spots to shoot in Orange County. On this particular evening, Tom and I had only been shooting for about 20 minutes when the sky really began to light up and we knew we had chosen a good night to make the trip down there. As you can see from my photo stream, I've been down there to shoot several times, but I think this might have been the best sunset I've seen at Victoria thus far.
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