Almost gone.

Wander down to Fishermen’s Wharf in Monterey and you will be inundated with plaques, street names and quotes from seemingly the only famous person ever to have lived there, John Steinbeck. However, once you reach the fabled Fishermen’s Wharf of which he wrote so passionately, you are confronted with the very worst of modern taste. T shirt vendors, popcorn sellers and awful mass market restaurants so devoid of originality that you want to run for cover.

Yet, creep down a narrow alleyway or two and you can still get a feel for what Steinbeck was writing about.

Steinbeck’s dove. G1, 33mm, f/6.3, 1/2000, ISO 100

Wharf’s edge. G1, 41mm, f/6.3, 1/2000, ISO 100

Gull. G1, 45mm, f/6.3, 1/1000, ISO 100