I took this picture a few days ago, and just love Lucca’s LOLcat-ish “meh” expression:
This was taken late one afternoon while Lucca sat on our homemade 6′ tall cat tree. Sunlight was streaming in a window directly behind Lucca and bouncing off a wall to the left of the image, creating wonderfully soft, even lighting with a hint of backlighting.
To see more of my cat pictures, take a look at my cats gallery.
When I think of beach pictures on the west coast of the United States, I think sunsets. The glorious red sun falling beneath the ocean. The soft light on the sky. The ability to wake up at noon and still photograph it.
But recently I noticed that low tides were coinciding with early mornings, so I decided to head out for a morning trip to the beach on Friday. My primary goal was to scout out locations for future sunrise and intertidal photography, so I headed to both Crystal Cove State Park’s beach and Little Corona (both beaches are in Orange County; Little Corona is in Corona Del Mar, and Crystal Cove is just north of Laguna Beach). But I quickly got distracted from location hunting thanks to the beauty of the morning.
Both beaches have bluffs overlooking the ocean, meaning that the beach was shaded long after the sun rose in the region. This allowed for shots like the above, and also let me get pictures of a waterfall cascading down the bluffs long after sunrise:
Continue reading A morning on the beach: Crystal Cove State Park and Little Corona Beach