Peregrines, surf, and the shoreline ritual: how a photo circle Dave Weldon built became a South Bay community. This is the regular lineup, a crew photographer Dave Weldon pulled together and keeps in orbit, meeting when the light, wind, and text thread all say go. “There’s a woman out there on a raft,” he said one morning while shooting surfers at El Porto in Manhattan Beach. “Mostly because I was born in Manhattan Beach, and my brothers all surfed,” Weldon said. For Weldon, the appeal is that the same cliff can produce wildly different pictures and conversations, even when everyone is shoulder to shoulder.