natural bridges

I captured this shot before the sunrise light hit the clouds. I was timing the surf, trying to get nice reflections in the wet sand. For this image, I really wanted to show off the arch and color. This is a blend of two images for focus stacking. Any thoughts are welcome.

We had a forecast for some nice skies at sunrise yesterday morning so I drove to Santa Cruz to take advantage before going to work. I'd never been there before, but I've seen the arch in lots of photos from others. I really liked the relatively flat beach that made for some nice reflections...

I actually meant to post these chronologically, but messed up and posted the twilight shot first. Here is the sunset shot. The angle isn't the common view, but there were these awesome Crepuscular rays coming from the sunset that in order for me use in the photo. I had to go around to the...

Heading to Natural Bridges State Park here in Santa Cruz California. If anyone is interested in meeting up to shoot the sunset send me a message please so I get the alert on my phone. Jim