Beach Bums - Part 35

Playa Luna, Chile

Playa Luna (Moon Beach) is the only official nude beach in Chile.

There was a nude beach called Cau-Cau, in Horcón, a town north of Santiago.  But condominium development in the 1990s pushed the nudists further out of town to Playa Luna.  The condos can be seen in the distance.

Photographer René Rojas, a supporter of naturism in Chile, named the beach Playa Luna in 2000 and organized a group of naturists as the Club Playa Luna.

In 2001 there was a court challenge to the legality of nudism at the beach.  The judge ruled that it was legal, making this Chile's only legal nude beach.

The beach is located in an environmental reserve where the Dominican seagull nests on the cliffs.

Every summer the beach becomes a hot spot for both Chilean nudists and tourists.  It's a public beach and freely accessible.

We end with this photo promoting tourism at Playa Luna.  The beach is used by both males and females.  Of course I concentrated on photos of the males.  Sometimes you can crop out the females, but that would make this photo look odd.

However, Photoshop provides another useful trick.  First, I cropped the photo to center the guy.

Photoshop has a tool called the "spot healing brush."  It can be used to remove spots and scratches from a photo.  In this case there was something else that I wanted to remove.  You take the spot healing brush and "paint" over the thing that you want to remove (above) ...

and Photoshop magically replaces it with content copied from nearby areas of the photo (above).  Cool!  Or, since we're in Latin America, ¡Bacán!