The Edge of the Day at Natural Bridges
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It’s that time of the year again on the Pacific Coast when the storms come out, when the crowds disappear and when each sunset is rich with variety of color. With that in mind, I drove down to Santa Cruz last night to shoot at a new location where I have not shot before.
Natural Bridges State Beach is a great location any time of the year (for an entirely different outtake of the same scene, for example, check out this shot from my buddy Jim Patterson – link). Looking at the weather forecast yesterday, I noticed that the low tide was coming in right around the sunset, so I thought it might be a good time to try the reflection shot of that arch. As I got to the beach, the dramatic clouds that I saw on the way to the beach cleared, as it often happens, but that still did not take away the color that was changing every moment during the golden/twilight hour.
I’ll be doing a lot more shooting at the coast and elsewhere outdoors in general in the coming months, because I want to continue to build that body of work and shift my focus that way from everything else I was shooting recently.