Whitefish Point Light, Lake Superior, Upper Peninsula, Michigan ----------
I have two more photos from the beach at Whitefish Point Light Station on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan for you today. The images were made just seven minutes apart from each other. First of course the glowing clouds after sunset followed by the blue hour shot with the lighthouse in the east. The clouds moved very fast and not a single image looked alike that evening. As you can imagine we were not the only people at the beach enjoying the light and mood of the moment. Thanks to the “content aware healing brush” in Adobe Photoshop CC, people with phones in their hand, taking selfies on the beach, are easy to remove… 😊
Just the beach with some glowing clouds would have been not enough for an interesting picture, at least in my books. The sun sets in more than a million places all over the world every day. I know this sounds sarcastic, but it is true. With the kid on the left, looking for stones to throw from the shore, we get a sense of scale and suddenly have another story telling subject, beside the clouds, in the frame. Even if we don’t know the full story, the presence of another person at exactly this particular spot gives a much better idea how vast Lake Superior really is.
To all my friends and family here in the US: Best wishes for a perfect Thanksgiving!