The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see…

- Gilbert K. Chesterton.

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Since I first visited the charming town of Morro Bay in 2013, I have returned so many times that my wife thinks I am low-key obsessed with it. She’s not wrong. Honestly, it was a subject that completely stumped me on my first visit. I ended up posting no images from our first trip, and even on our second time there, I used the rock as a background rather than an outright subject as I still hadn’t figured out a way to make it my main subject. On my third visit, I managed a few images that satisfied me. Still, that visit also fuelled a desire to find better pictures of this magnificent geographic feature of the California coast.

On our most recent trip, I expected moody overcast skies and hoped to use it to my advantage. I planned to use the dunes north of the rock as my foreground interest and to apply some telephoto compression to the scene. Due to the dunes being a protected nesting site for endangered birds, I had to hike quite far to find an ideal location. But in hindsight, I think it worked to my advantage as the delay allowed the sun to break through the clouds and provided dramatic light to the scene. I used a short-tele focal length here and decided to crop the image in a panoramic format to cut some of the uninteresting bits from the scene. Definitely my favorite from the trip.

Taken in: United States / California / Moro Y Cayucos (show map)

Taken on: March 5, 2023

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Camera: Nikon Z 6, f/4.0, 1/4000 sec, 81mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Nikon Z 6
Lens:	NIKKOR Z 24-120mm f/4 S
Aperture:	f/4.0
Exposure Time:	1/4000 sec
Focal Length:	81mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-2/3 EV
Flash:	No Flash
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Scene Capture Type:	Portrait
Sharpness:	Hard
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	NIKON Z 6 Ver.03.50
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