The Sun Wins the Day - a photo on Flickriver

            After a long day of driving through incessant heavy rains, to arrive in Crescent City, California just as the rains stopped and find this image....well, it felt pretty good.

At the same time, there were intense storms off the coast causing rogue waves all along the California shoreline.  The breakwater from which this image was made was actually secured to pedestrian traffic.  My 12-yr old daughter remained at the sign, while my wife and I, assessing the danger to be minimal at low-tide, walked 75-yds down Lighthouse Way to this vantage point.  At first the thick clouds created a moody image with weird storm lighting that I thought would be kind of cool if I had enough light in the foreground to pull it off.  When the sun closed the horizon it began to break through the lower layers of clouds creating a far more powerful scene than I could have hoped for.

Taken in: United States / California / Crescent City (show map)

Taken on: December 20, 2018

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III, f/16.0, 0.4 sec, 40mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark III
Lens:	EF24-105mm f/4L IS USM
Aperture:	f/16.0
Exposure Time:	0.4
Focal Length:	40mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Manual
Exposure Mode:	Manual
Metering Mode:	Partial
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic 9.2.1 (Windows)
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