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Sure, you've heard of storm chasers.
That's just not much of an option for Southern California photographers, really. Last year, however, when a red tide's bacteria lit up the coastline from Ventura to Baja in electric blue light, a bioluminescence chaser was born.
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Patrick Coyne, a photographer and videographer from Torrance, caught the bug -- bad -- last year. It hit just as the pandemic shut everything else down, so he spent weeks traveling up and down the coast with his "adventure buddy" Mark Girardeau, eventually capturing now-iconic images of dolphins playing in the fluorescent-blue waves. He ended the season, as it were, in San Diego in May, shooting video and stills of the Scripps Pier bathed along its 1,00-plus foot length in a beautiful glow from the waves and pier's sodium light. Blue and orange, folks -- that's just Color Wheel 101.