These rocks had been smoothed out by years and years of being battered by the Pacific Ocean
Del Mar sunsets are some of the prettiest in the country. With the seemingly never-ending Pacific Ocean as the backdrop for the setting sun, the world becomes blanketed in an array of colors. This photo does a great job of highlighting one of the most fun parts of photographing the sun—all the amazing colors that can be cast by the sun.
I had been taking photos of the setting sun in your typical fashion: head height shot, shooting either straight at the sun or with the sun slightly off center from the main focus of the camera. I started to look around at the rocks that scattered the beach. I realized that these rocks had been smoothed out by years and years of being battered by the Pacific Ocean. There were dozens of colors of rocks and endless variation in shape and size.
I began to take photos of the rocks themselves, because of the orange and pink colors that were coming through from the setting sun. The shadows cast about the rocks during this Del Mar sunset were also helping to create a dramatic effect to the photos as well. Taking the photos of the rocks themselves didn’t quite capture the sunset the way that I wanted to, so I turned my camera back to the sun.
On my second attempt to photograph this Del Mar sunset, I actually took some photos in black and white. With the rocks scattered about the beach, there was a dramatic effect casted by their shadows. That’s when I saw that the beach itself was beginning to take on the red, orange, and pink of the sunset. I turned it back to color and took just one shot to capture this photo. I hope you feel the same sense of warmth that I did as I sat with my wife taking in the sunset.
The shadows cast about the rocks...were also helping to create a dramatic effect
The reason the sunlight changes color is the amount of atmosphere that the light has to pass through
Why does the sky change color as the sun sets? The reason the sunlight changes color is the amount of atmosphere that the light has to pass through. The molecules in the atmosphere scatter the blue and violet light from our vision leaving behind the yellows, oranges, reds, and pinks we are familiar with at sunset.
Did you know that the beaches of Del Mar are home to whimbrels? This bird has a long curved beak and is one of the most widely found birds in the world.
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