The skies wanted to part and let heaven light up the trees this day. Autumn colors were showing with strong amber and burnt sienna. It's amazing that the lush greens of summer turn to these warm colors as the weather cools. A fun fact about the color of burnt sienna. Long a color of the Crayola crayon box, Burnt Sienna was all set to be retired in 2003. However, the color was saved by a vote of consumers and remains in the box of 64 to this day. Retired instead were blizzard blue, magic mint, mulberry, and teal blue. The current list of retired colors stands at 13.
I liked the pattern the receding tide left behind this day. It repeated, almost rhythmically. I was surprised most about in the number of small puddles that remained, I guess after a recent rainfall, each one filled with its own small ecosystem of tiny fish. I felt bad for these fish knowing that their life wouldn’t exist much longer - there were just too many to build a canal to lead back to the bay. All part of God’s plan, hopefully I’ll get the opportunity to find out.
This set of rocks is near that broken pier I like. The two will show up in a photo together at some point. Do you ever take a photo you can just feel is good and hesitate to make the edits because you just don’t want to let it go or want to save it until your editing skills are just a little better? I don’t do that much editing to begin with but I’m trying to get over that feeling and let go of a couple of my favorites. I do like the softness of this one. Experimenting with some longer exposures is fun but tricky.