Spring is an awesome time to explore nature, things are waking up, sprouting, and beginning to look their best. And spring days are often surprisingly unsettled too, one minute clouds, the next minute full sun. This was one of those days as we arrived at Mt. Baldy to hike the woods and the beach. The sky was overcast, but there was a bit of optimism looking at the blue sky to the west, and sure enough, as we turned around at our usual halfway point, Kintzele Ditch, the sun came out in full force.
Bright sun in the spring often creates great vivid colors, especially against a deep blue sky, and with the newly opened, bright green oak leaves on the trees of the dune. The colors look almost impossibly vivid, yet I actually had to reduce the saturation in post. I never increase the saturation of a photo, and almost never need to decrease it, but the light and optics were almost too perfect on this particular morning.
A week later, and this sand will begin to fill up with beachgoers ready to bathe in the sun, and splash in the water. An empty beach like this will not be seen again until October, so I really took some time and enjoyed it.
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