Dirt Road Sometimes you just stumble upon a scene where the lighting is too good to pass up.  This was the case here while driving through the country on the way back from Glen Arbor Michigan area to Traverse City last week.
 

Tranquil-Sunset-on-the-Beach

As the sun dropped below the horizon on the beach at Naples, Florida I captured a few final images before the light faded away.  This photo captured the tranquil mood of the evening:  waves gently coming onto the beach, pelicans sitting comfortably on the pilings out into the Gulf, wispy clouds being lit from below with colors of yellow and orange and the lone pelican silhouetted against the orange glow where the sun disappeared below the horizon. 
 The timing of this photo came together with lines leading the eyes along the water on the beach to the pilings, the pilings guiding back toward the horizon where the sun just set, clouds from the upper left of the frame drawing the view back toward the glow of the sunset and finally the lone pelican being silhouetted against the glow of the sky.

Sunset at Big Carlos Pass The skies looked promising for a nice sunset, so I decided to photograph a 2nd sunset at Big Carlos Pass at the north end of Lovers Key State Park. Tonight I used a Nisi 10 stop filter and a medium GND8 filter to slow my shutter time to 10 seconds. This photo was shot in High Resolution mode on a tripod on my Olympus OM-D E-M1x.