Stonefield Sunset

[AlanLichty]

Just south of Cape Perpetua along the Oregon coast is an unheralded beach that goes by the name of Stonefield Beach. I stayed there for a night right while on a trip along the coast and was treated to a nice sunset color show.

Stonefield Beach Sunset

• AlanLichty
• Feb 11, 2019

A nice sunset color show at Stonefield Beach, Oregon.

C&C always welcome.

 

[JimFox]

Very nice Alan. That's a cool sunset. There are so many little cool beach area's in Oregon.

 

[BarryHamilton]

Very nice, Alan. Lovely soft mood.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I know that pull put, I did not know you could camp there. Lovely scene.

 

[AlanLichty]

I know that pull put, I did not know you could camp there. Lovely scene.

That turnout is posted for no overnight parking. I stayed at an RV campground a couple hundred yards north from the pull out. It's legal to camp along any place along the highways in Oregon that is NOT posted for no overnight parking.

 

[David S]

Nice catch, those clouds! I like how you aren't too close OR to far away either, there's a good sense of scale in the picture and it draws your eyes across the whole picture to the little pictures in the picture.

 

[Amy Nelson]

Absolutely love the drama of the clouds! Great image.

 

[Dean]

Beautiful shot Alan.. Also would love to see a pano of this where the left edge starts just below where the sea meets the sand and crop some sky maybe end up with 6x17 or something close.
Regards,
Dean

 

[Bob Denton]

This is great

 

[Timmeh]

Hey Alan,

The color and processing is great for the mood of the image as always. I'm unsure about the positioning of the dark elements though. The right edge feels like it is out of the action a little bit as is. I could see a crop to the right edge of the cloud break, or as a completely separate image, a crop to the left edge of the middle rock with the dark areas as bookends.

Tim

 

[AlanLichty]

Hey Alan,

The color and processing is great for the mood of the image as always. I'm unsure about the positioning of the dark elements though. The right edge feels like it is out of the action a little bit as is. I could see a crop to the right edge of the cloud break, or as a completely separate image, a crop to the left edge of the middle rock with the dark areas as bookends.

Tim

Good feedback. I liked the dark ominous silhouette of Cape Perpetual as the backdrop in the upper right but it did seem a bit too dark when I saw it posted. I will look at whether further processing can help this one. I took a ton more shots that evening with a lot of different variants on framing the foreground rocks - they were pretty much all I had to work with on the stretch of beach I was on. There might be some more possibilities for a pano variant of this sunset.