Four Mile Beach

Four Mile Beach, California, USA.

A beautiful pink cloud was standing right on top of the iconic rock at Four Mile Beach, the colors all coming together on my left and not in front of me . I knew the scene would last only few minutes if I was lucky, so I had to work fast.

I quickly moved the tripod to the area on the left of my initial composition over very slippery rocks.

I had a very short time for composing the image and virtually no time for refining it. I had to rely on instinct developed in more than ten years of photography to arrange the elements in the image in a coherent and visually pleasing manner with little or no room for mistakes.

I even fell flat on the rock . The rocks were indeed very slippery. My left leg is still hurting a week later. 

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