Cliffs, Sand, and Surf. North of Santa Cruz, California. January 11, 2009. © Copyright G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
Late sun illuminates sand, cliffs, and surf near Santa Cruz, California.
I suppose I must count myself lucky for living in a place where I get head to out in the late afternoon for the coast, wander around on the beach shooting photographs of scenes like this as the sun drops toward the horizon… and be home in time for dinner. :-)
Another in what will be a series of perhaps a half dozen photographs from this spot north of Santa Cruz, California, where I photographed this past weekend. In this photograph the sun is dropping beyond the horizon and the very last light is hitting the beach in the center foreground.
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Rob, I’ve thought a lot about that foreground. Without that bit of final light on the foreground sand (and, heck the footprints at far left) and the waves in just the right place it would be a very different photograph.
While there is an element of chance in many of my photographs, including this one (who can tell the wave where to pose!?) I did have a pretty good idea where this one was going, including anticipating the crop used here – there was a bit more sky and sand in the exposure, but I knew that I’d crop it out when I pressed the shutter release.
Dan
Super light, particularly the foreground dappling there.