Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Pictures from the West Side

It's been a year since I took these pictures.  I don't have a great camera, but these I like quite a bit, so I thought I'd share...

Here you can see a small natural pond of water had developed on the side of a dune.  I liked the contrast of the green, the blue, and the tan sand.
















To me this is just a perfect picture of nature's beauty.  The colors of the tree on the left almost seem unreal...

















I took this picture from shore, but I think the angle makes it look more like it was taken from a boat.  I like the angle, the reflection of the sun on the water, and most of all the way the clouds appear to be swirling around the sun.  It almost looks like the sun is exploding...

 
















This is the first of some sunset pictures I took in which I captured the little light I had just right and was able to finally do justice to a beautiful sunset.  The reflection shows on the water so much so that on some (that I did not include) it's hard to see where the horizon begins.  Usually the pictures look nothing like what I see in real person, but these were pretty close...

















At one point I was hoping the people would move out of the picture, but in the end I liked the shadows against the colors...

This last picture was taken while slowly leaving the beach, from my car window.  It created a kind of a neon effect that I definitely liked, but didn't expect.



I also had some pictures showing a blue sunset saturating the sky and the water, and some nice river photos.  To keep with the nature theme I opted not to include a BEAUTIFUL picture of a large barbecue pork sandwich.  I'm sure to get special requests on that one.  Hopefully you enjoyed the ones I did share...