Monte Del Oro (Four Seasons)

Monte Del Oro (Four Seasons)Lorimar Winery Cabernet Sauvignon grapes California Vintage SUMMER All prints arrive without watermark and ready to hang.

Looking around on a normal day it's sometimes hard to see the beauty and art of nature

saturate colors naturally

This is close to where I am from and is a special place for me

as well as create a natural vignette around the top of the sunflower

this event happens twice a year as the relative positioning of the setting sun (due to the 23 degree tilt of the earth's axis) moves toward its highest latitudes at the summer solstice

pictured here is the lone willow growing in the middle of a lake

a stable and sturdy tripod was an absolute necessity for this composition in order to keep both images sharp in the places i wanted sharpness

and to get the effects and balance i was looking for in the mountain/lake exposure of this composition (f/11@111mm for 111 secs

and this composition is comprised entirely of one long exposure (f/11 @111mm for 11secs

Pictured here is the perfect alignment of the sun setting directly centered underneath the Scripps Pier in La Jolla

all of a sudden the setting sun hit the gap in the clouds

I swear the Finale of the 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky was playing in my head as the excitement in my heart and spirit built up