Wet sand reflects the full moon setting by Morro Rock just before dawn early one morning in April.
The "belt of Venus" color in the sky shows the blue shadow of the earth, receding as the pink light from the approaching sun drives the shadow towards the horizon.
This site is covered on page 212 in my "Photographing California - South" guidebook to California landscape photography.
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I'm heading toward the coast to go see a NASA satellite launch late Monday night at Vandenberg Air Force Base, so I thought I'd upload a coastal image.
Yes, I've been holding this and other photos back for 3+ years so as not to spoil the surprise as my California landscape photography guide book comes out later this year. This is a Winter view, without the fog bank which sits off the California Coast through out the Summer months, so the book should be out around the time people might head over to look for shots like this (and I'll give them lots of other locations to spread out in).
Roughly 1/6 of the book is fully formatted as of today, the total could hit 1/4 this weekend and 1/2 next week or so. It's cool seeing such a long term project finally come together!
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Something to give thanks for on Thanksgiving... a walk on the beach to walk off the food, and a nice sunset as well!
There was a chance that the tail from Comet ISON might swing around and jut into the twilight/evening sky. With the comet getting at least partially disintegrated that didn't happen, but the sunset was nice.
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A 13 second exposure at ISO 100, f/22.
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Waves deposited these rocks in depressions in the bedrock, and additional wave action both carves the depressions deeper and continues to wear and round the stones.
Mancala is a class of African games played with beans, shells or stones moved across a playing field made from depressions scooped into the ground or a wooden board with bowl-like depressions.
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