One of my new year’s resolutions was to spend more time on my photography so I figured I should start on New Year’s Day with an excursion out to the coast. The scene struck me as very much a January day: overcast, cold and with just hints of sunset color. January is when the lights and cheer of the holidays are forgotten and what’s left is the realization that it’s a long haul till spring.
The Manhattan Bridge lives in both the literal and figurative shadow of the it’s more famous brother, the Brooklyn Bridge. The Manhattan bridge is just to the east of the Brooklyn Bridge and both make the crossing between Brooklyn and Manhattan.
Unlike the cold and foggy evenings of the summer, this September Sunday evening was warm, pleasant and shows the best San Francisco has to offer.
Grey Whale Cove State Beach is located a few miles south of Pacifica, just beyond Devil’s Slide. I’d driven this section of Highway 1 many times but never noticed the beach. There’s a well-marked parking lot right off the highway but one can not see the beach from the road. There’s a trail and stairs that lead down to beach. Getting down is pretty easy but the stairs and be bit taxing on the way back up.
Brilliant colors as the sun sets on Pomponio State Beach.
The sun descends, marking the beginning of a long winter night at Pomponio State Beach, just south of Half Moon Bay
As I drove up the beach in Half Moon Bay, I was enthralled by the dramatic light from the approaching storm. Just a minute or two after I created this image, the sky went grey and it started to rain fairly hard
I spotted this illuminated roof line while walking to Penn Station one evening after dinner.
Only a month out from the winter solstice, the sun especially at more northern latitudes radiates narrow but very warm colored light as it sets. Here it illuminates historic buildings in Brooklyn Heights.
