Blog #2

This is a picture from a day at Newport Beach recently. We were taking pictures because it was the prime time in the day colloquially known as "Golden Hour." I decided to take this photo to send to my parents back home. It is unintentionally backlit, so shadows are cast throughout the humps of sand on the beach. The sunlight illuminates a stretch of the water, in a way that it is almost blinding to look at. I did a photography project in high school where we had to take backlighting photos, so it was cool to carry on with exploring that. I really love taking pictures with the sun in this placement. People more commonly take pictures with the sun in the other direction so it is cool to have variety.