Our challenge for this week is “natural light”. Light can be a photographer’s best friend or mortal enemy. Sunrise, sunset and cloudy is good. Bright light – typically from 10AM to 7PM is bad – oh so, so, so so bad. We won’t talk about bad light though. This post is about several days where I had absolutely fantastic natural light.
My work office is less than 1/2 mile from the beach. I had just left work and saw the biggest pink cloud over the beach. I made a quick U turn and headed over to the beach, grabbed my camera from the backseat and spent about an hour or so taking photos until the sky got dark.
The above two photos were taken on different days and at different beaches. A storm was on its way and provided some awesome clouds and contrast you won’t get most days.
Most weekends we spend the entire day on the beach. Lunch, drinks and snacks are in the cooler and we’re underneath our umbrella digging our toes in the sand and enjoying the breeze off the ocean. On this particular day, we had a small rainstorm come through in the afternoon and it kept the sun behind the clouds so we had a beautiful sky for some really great photos to end a perfect day.
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Oh my, Gina – these are glorious, all of them! But by the sea you have many more opportunities for different light in your images – and you certainly made the most of the opportunities here. Wonderful. I had to go back and see them again and again – if I must choose favourites…I think I will vote for number one and number three.
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Thank you so much! I can never pick favorites though. So glad you liked them.
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Fabulous set of natureal light selections. How wonderful to see the change of the sky from pink, orange, and blue. All are beautifully captured, Gina!
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Thanks Amy! Great choice for this week’s prompt.
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You’re right Gina, that pink sky is amazing! There is nowhere better than the beach for capturing the many varieties of beautiful light -as you’ve done in your post. Terrific post.
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Thanks Tina! Beach days are the best days.
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Looks so peaceful. Beautiful capture.
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Thank you so much!
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Beautiful ‘beachscapes’ in various lights – I really love the 2nd to last and the way you have framed the whole scene slightly offset
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Thanks Laura. The sky was beautiful and I got lots of pics but the one with the children is my favorite from that day.
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Beautiful skies. Excellent.
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Thanks John!
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Gina, these are pearls. I love the beach and you have captured it at its best. 🙂
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Thanks Marsha! I feel really blessed that the beach is my backyard.
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Gina, can you see me turning green? I have had beautiful mountains in my vision for the last 20 years, but never ocean in my backyard. What a joy! 🙂
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Some beautiful photos. Don’t you find people look a little strangely when you leap up grabbing the camera and muttering “gotta catch the light…”😉
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Especially when you take a photo every 30 seconds and they wonder what the fuss is about!
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