Serene Shoal Bay Sunset

I will be heading down to the Caribbean island again in just a couple of weeks. It gave me the encouragement to try to get caught up on processing my images from the last two years. I realized that my pictures from 2010 were pretty much done, just waiting for the final cut! I am half way through 2011 and thought I would stop to post a sunset shot that I am quite happy with. I was lucky enough to get a sun star at just the moment that it set behind the buildings on the horizon. The waves kept creeping up on me and I had to try to keep ahead on them! I plan on posting a new gallery of Anguilla pictures soon, so stay tuned!

 

This shot was from one of the last mornings in the park (yes, I process backwards, just like I read a magazine!). I was lined up for a sunrise shot including the mountains, but as I watched the sky to the east, I was drawn to this lone ocotillo. I like how the limbs of the plant follow the pattern of the clouds.

As I drove out to the park, I wondered if I would be able to see anything at all when I got there. The dunes were engulfed in a massive cloud of sand. It was rather eerie as I winded my way along the road deeper into the park. I put on the lens I figured I would want to shoot with in the car to avoid the blowing sand. I bundled up and trudged out into the storm. After wandering around a while I was about to give up and call it quits, until this lone yucca caught my eye. It wasn’t the nicest yucca I had seen since it had no stalk, but in this case it was just fine since the wind would make it hard to render sharply anyway. The setting sun started to light up the clouds in the distance, but with all the blowing sand, it was very subdued. I would have to say, this is a different shot than most I have from the park, but I like it. What do you think?