Photo Details
| Title: | Blue Hour, Venice Beach, California |
| Taken: | 22 April, 2019 |
| Location: | |
| Camera: | NIKON D810 |
| Focal length: | 24mm |
| Shutter speed: | 25s |
| Aperture: | ƒ/8 |
| ISO: | 64 |
This photo is a companion to a previous photo of a Venice Beach sunset I took in 2019. Both photos show Venice’s iconic lifeguard stations on the same evening, although I took this one of a different hut later towards twilight.
Choosing a composition comes down to finding the right scene at the right moment in time. In my previous post, I mentioned how the composition came together because the station was situated on a slightly higher rise of sand. Finding that single spot at that moment led to me discovering a wonderful sunset beach scene.
I had a similar experience with this photo. The beach was now quiet, and I was walking south when I happened upon this recently closed hut. The lifeguards had just departed on their ATV, and they had left behind tracks that were still fresh and formed a beautiful loop around the lonely hut. At that moment, right before dark, the last pink blue light from the setting sun nicely complemented the building’s blue paint. Opportunity and timing.
