Photo By David Ellis When I was in high school, I was hanging out at a friend’s house and picked up a copy of color photography pioneer Ernst Haas’s The Creation that was sitting on a coffee table. Until that moment, photographs for me were those stiff representations of forced family events, but Haas’ sense of light, color and texture, as well as his clever abstractions of ordinary things, was a revelation. “You can do that with a camera,” I marveled. Little did I know that Haas would inform my photographic journey for decades to come. Living in California, I’ve photographed the northern coastline dozens of times. The place I keep going back to is Weston Beach at Point Lobos, a...