2025 Surf Art Calendar - Kyle Daniels
- tonyrogondino
- Sep 2
- 2 min read
September
“Pink Sunset”
By: Kyle Daniels
STORY BEHIND THE IMAGE
From the artist: Growing up and living at the beach gives us many reasons to be inspired to get outside and enjoy what surrounds us. The Pink Sunset was taken at an extreme low tide in Solana Beach, one of our family's favorite beaches when we are not in the South Bay. The low tide often exposes the reef so a sunset walk on the beach is rewarded with finding some amazing shells and seeing the sea life tucked into the crevices in the reef. I usually like to bring my Canon R6 when shooting, but this one came from the best camera I had for the moment - an iPhone 7 - f1.8 1/120s.
ARTIST BIO
Young Kyle Daniels grew up in Hermosa Beach on a street full of kids who loved the ocean as much as he did. But his affinity for all things aquatic didn’t end with childhood. He parlayed his passion into a decades-long career and adventure lifestyle.
Kyle and his neighborhood friends became Junior Lifeguards—a program run by the Los Angeles County Fire Department to instruct kids in water skills. It was then that 10-year-old Kyle first fell in love with paddleboarding.
While attending Loyola High School, Kyle and his friends would often hit the beach before school to surf. He continued volunteering as a Junior Guard and also played water polo and swam for the school. His coach, a Los Angeles County lifeguard, encouraged him to take the lifeguard test in 1994. Kyle would continue his post as an L.A. lifeguard for 20 years.
He graduated from Santa Clara University with an accounting degree and worked first for Price Waterhouse Coopers LLP and later for a small tax firm in Manhattan Beach. But the calling he heard as a child never left him.
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