About

Lawrence (Larry) Prosor was born in Hollywood, California. His family blood lines represent a melting pot of cultures with lineage to Great Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Finland, Northwest Russia, and Scandinavia.

Prosor’s formal institutionalized education came to an abrupt halt in a Junior College when the Career Guidance Councilor informed him “You need to decide what you want as a career, so you can schedule the proper courses.” Trusting his flight instincts, Larry took a long, long break from fourteen years of formal schooling and set out on his own education course.

His formative years revolved around living in the northern Lake Tahoe area in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada. Away from the population pressures of Los Angeles, his spirit soared with the steep mountains he climbed and the joy he cherished while gliding down the slopes in powder snow. The beauty of his surroundings and the recreational opportunities he shared with fellow like-minded souls led him to document his experiences with a camera. The early days of photography as a passionate hobby, evolved with growing talent into a full time career. Decades later, his standing amongst his peers and fans of his photography holds a solid place of photographic history. Two of his photography books, “Lake Tahoe” and “Endless Nevada” have gone into multiple print runs. Powder Magazine honored Prosor as “one of the most prolific shooters of the 80’s and 90’s” in their 40^th anniversary special edition featuring his work. His images have graced a wide range of publications worldwide.

Story telling with a camera for Prosor evolved into story telling with words. This interest lead to education on many aspects of writing with an early focus on script writing for feature films, culminating in his screenplay, “Dream Walker”. He has recently adapted Dream Walker the feature film screenplay, into a fiction novel. Dream Walker the novel has been steadily accumulating impressive positive reviews amongst readers.

After a handful of journeys to New Zealand, a series of fateful encounters led Prosor to land overlooking the Pacific Ocean. He immigrated to New Zealand with his life partner of over thirty years, Cindy, and their son, Will. Their daughter, Whitney, continued her education in Montana, eventually settling in Bozeman as a teacher.

Larry helped to design and build their own home, surrounded by the coastal beauty of New Zealand. Their home utilizes independent living, sustainable design with passive and active solar systems.

Prosor travels between New Zealand and California chasing the summers. He still spends time with his camera, and writes almost daily with multiple writing projects.

Dream Walker by Larry Prosor: Synopsis

DREAM WALKER – Synopsis
by Larry Prosor

Thanks to surfing one-last-wave-twelve-more-times near Rocky Point on California’s central coast, Peter Martinez arrives late for work at his tribe’s Indian casino. Hustling to the grand entry in full Indian warrior costume, he’s confronted by an obnoxious patron and raises his fake rubber tomahawk. Despite his questionable self-defense argument about the incident, he’s fired by the casino manager — his mother. But a better opportunity arises for Peter, who, as a direct descendent of the Noqoto tribe that once called Rocky Point and its environs home, is working on his thesis about local, forgotten Indian tribes. His thesis supervisor and head of the Santa Barbara Natural History museum, Doctor Evans, asks Peter to complete the first stage of an archaeological survey of Rocky Point. If something historically significant about the area can be unearthed, they can put the brakes on oil giant ENRG’s plans to erect a massive petrochemical facility there, defacing and destroying the pristine – and sacred – coastal land.

Seeking clues at a museum display of coastal tribe history, aspiring archaeologist Peter briefly crosses paths with biologist Linda Diaz. Despite the brevity of their encounter, they connect, environmentally and spiritually, given their mutual interest in protecting vanishing reserves of coastal sanctuaries. Peter next seeks advice from his soul surfer Grandfather, who questions Peter’s grave-robber occupational pursuits. When Peter tells his grandfather of a vision he had—that led to his recent discovery of an Indian skull at Mission Los Santos— Grandfather gives Peter an ancient dolphin talisman of greenstone, imbued with power to guide him on Dream Walks. And Peter promises he will carry out his beloved Grandfather’s request to, after his grandfather’s passing, scatter his ashes from sacred Rocky Point.

Peter sets up camp near ENRG’s gates guarding Rocky Point and begins his field work, searching for ancestral clues to his surroundings. His presence noted, in swoops ENRG’s slick, helicopter-shuttling, Armani-clad point man, Robert Simmons, who offers Peter a lucrative job for ENGR, attempting to dissuade him from discovering antiquities that could halt the project. Peter considers this better job offer, but his desire to investigate tribal history and stay true to his ancestors keeps him on point.

When rising swells strike the coast, Peter enjoys a gourmet lunch of tasty waves surfing below the cliffs of Rocky Point. While paddling back up the point, he spots a fresh rock slide that reveals a small portal worth investigating. Roped and climbing the vertical cliff face, Peter discovers a hidden burial cave containing remains of his ancestors. With captured photos and his dolphin amulet in hand, Peter exits the cave culturally conflicted by revealing the contents to others, or to stay silent and preserve the burial site’s sanctity. Stepping away from the cliff, his rope goes limp, plunging him down into the ocean. Blacked out, he regains partial consciousness to find his animal saviour—his dolphin amulet has come to life. Hanging tight to the dorsal fin offered, Peter is pulled by his guardian dolphin into a very timely wave.