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Here's surfing photos from Saturday, December 11th at the Venice Pier.

This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by XCEL Wetsuits.

These are just a few of the photos from this session. If you were out there, you probably got some surfing shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete photo gallery for this day, check them out, the link to the complete gallery is down below.
















You can find more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:

Venice Pier - Saturday 12-11-2021 Gallery


If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!

Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.

Here's surfing photos from Saturday, December 11th at Venice Jetty.

This set of surf photos was shot by Six12 Media and brought to you by XCEL Wetsuits.

These are just a few of the photos from this session. If you were out there, you probably got some surfing shots, probably multiple photos, they will be in the complete photo gallery for this day, check them out, the link to the complete gallery is down below.
















You can find more photos from this session, all full size and in high-resolution, in this photo gallery:

Venice Jetty - Saturday 12-11-2021 Gallery


If you were out there, we probably got some cool surfing shots of you, go check them out!

Wanna see photos from previous days at this and other local surf spots from this photographer?
Click Surf Spot Galleries and look for the spot and then the date.



From Santa Monica Close Up:

"Five hundred drones light up the sky displaying Chanel No 5 above Santa Monica Beach on Wednesday, December 8, 2021. The drone light show was for a Chanel commercial. "

Santa Monica Close Up is a photo blog by Santa Monica based Photojournalist/Press photographer Fabian Lewkowicz. Fabian is the former staff photographer for the Santa Monica Daily Observer Press, Santa Monica Mirror, Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Corsair.

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Video by Venice Gallerie

"I saw the black smoke of the fire and tried calling 911 but they didn't answer. I called Fire 63 directly and got through to the captain. The fire department arrived in about five minutes No one was injured.."



Thursday morning Lifeguard Units responded to a boat aground just south of Marina Del Rey Harbor. One person on board was safely ashore with no medical complaints. Lifegaurd boats secured a towing line and remove the vessel from the beach.

Images via LACoLifeguards


An {OCEAN WATER QUALITY RAIN ADVISORY} has been declared for all Los Angeles County beaches. The current advisory is in effect through at least 12:30 P.M. Sunday December 12, 2021.



Looff Pleasure Pier, 1924, now known as the Santa Monica Pier, with our world famous, iconic hippodrome on the right, keeping watch over all the activity.

Photo via the Fred Basten Collection


This Saturday is the 28th Annual Venice Surf-A-Thon, so here's throwback to 2014 with a video of the 21st Annual Venice Surf-A-Thon.

Video by Six12 Media