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Costa Rica Postcards – Sunsets in Tamarindo January 29
Postcards from Costa Rica - First an epic day of birthday waves at Ollie's Point, then a birthday gathering surrounded by my awesome friends, and now a feature in Bassculture Islands Magazine for Samba to the Sea! This has been a pretty awesome birthday week!! Click...
Surfing Ollie’s Point, Costa Rica – Happy 30th Birthday to Me!
Surfing Ollie's Point, Costa Rica - For my dirty-thirty, all I wanted was a date with my old fling, Ollie, and this awesome crew helped me ring in a new decade. Although Ollie played hard to get this morning, the wave machine turned on just as the last boat packed up...
Sunset in Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica – January 15
Tamarindo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica - One whole month without waves. Sure, I was away for two weeks, but that ever-so-pleasant Flu that I caught a week before my trip in addition to the past week and a half of FLAT waves since I have been back has been TORTURE. Until...
Sunset in Savannah Georgia – January 7
Sunset in Savannah, Georgia - Half and half. Half of the week finishing up my holiday visit in Savannah, Georgia and the other half back home in Tamarindo, Costa Rica. Despite the 36 degree morning on the last morning of my trip, the weather in Savannah was gorgeous...
Sunset in Savannah, Georgia – January 1
Sunset in Savannah, Georgia Happy New Year! Oh how lovely it has been to not be sweating all day and to cuddle up with a blanket and hot cup of tea here in Savannah, Georgia! Besides a couple things like family, craft beer, good cheese, non-sweat weather is something...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – December 25
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - TGIF it is Christmas y'all! I had to hop a plane to Savannah, Georgia because Santa only knows my parents' address! Home sweet home! I hope you have a very Merry Christmas and a beautiful holiday season! Enjoy the sunsets from Tamarindo last...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – December 18
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - Sucker punched. Computer down one week, Kristen down the next. My beloved Mac came back from the tech guru gods working like it's former self on Monday and the NEXT DAY I caught a not-so-nice 24 hour flu! Seriously?! As one of my friends said...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – December 11
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - Just when you think that you are catching up on work and getting ahead your computer goes and dies!!! Thank goodness for friends that have been ever so kind to lend me their iPad and Mac so that I don't fall ridiculously behind. Needless to say...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – December 4
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - Just like that, rainy season ended and the offshore winds of Summer started. And my beloved, dramatic rainy season sunsets are gone. Until May, enjoy the magic ball dropping from the sky. If I am lucky, a dramatic sky may sneak in from now...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – November 27
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - T H A N K F U L. The last time my family was together for Thanksgiving was five years ago. FIVE! So when my brother decided back in May that the family should pack up the bags, with a checked bag containing a frozen turkey, and visit me in...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – November 20
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - I like to longboard - a lot. 99% of the time I can be found surfing the Tamarindo Rivermouth with my 9'4" longboard. Too much in fact that my 6'2" "Fun Dip" short board was starting to feel neglected. So this past weekend when I packed up my...
Sunsets from Paradise – Playa Tamarindo, Costa Rica – November 13
Tamarindo, Costa Rica - What happens when it starts down pouring during the middle of a wedding your are photographing? You laugh it off, get a little wet, and keep photographing! It was a refreshing challenge though as I am so used to photographing weddings here in...
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Kristen M. Brown is an internationally published lifestyle photographer and the photographer behind Samba to the Sea™.
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