Sunset Sand

     Expanding on an earlier post on "Lighting and 'Reframing Photography'," it might sound redundant to say I am mesmerized by photos that beautifully show off light. Last year I found the series Broken Mirror/ Evening Sky by Bing Wright, and his images stayed with me.
 

  

    Along a similar vein, water reflects light much like mirrors. Thinking back to Bing Wright's photos, I took these pictures during a sunset in San Diego this spring break. I used the wet sand clouds, two very different states of water to appreciate the hues of a sunset more abstractly. I shifted how I normally frame a sunset (no sun or centered horizon in sight), and as a result I enjoyed taking the following photos: