Black Sands Beach 2: The Lost Coast
This is another view of Black Sands Beach, which probably should be named "Black Rocks Beach."
For the next 24 miles from Black Sands Beach, the Lost Coast Trail is primarily on the beach. The crunch of the black stones while walking was quite loud. But we were quite lucky. The Lost Coast has very few people, and is the most isolated stretch of coastline in the entire West Coast of the United States. And what person doesn't enjoy walking along miles of isolated beaches?
I took this photo before around sunrise using a 30 second exposure to get the misty look in the waves. You can see a bank of fog way out in the horizon.
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California, ユリーカ＝アーカータ＝フォーチュナ
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How did you capture this one? Beautiful!
I carried a tripod out there, jammed it hard into the round wet rocks, used a shutter release, and kept the shutter open for 30 seconds to get that ethereal feel with the waves. The difficult part for me was keeping all the water and crud off the lens. I had a lot of problems with that and droplets on this particular shoot, something I really need to improve. I kept a bag over the camera and lens until it was time to shoot, but it still didn't work all that well.
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