A balmy winter day, and a beautiful conjunction as the thin 4% crescent moon passed in front of the double star Beta Capricorn at sunset, with a skinny 1% sunlit Venus below, and the intense blue and scarlet colors of sunset reflecting off the low tide sand at the main beach of Santa Cruz. I biked down to the overlook on East Cliff, above the San Lorenzo River mouth, and captured the scene with my Nikon D7000.
A man and his good friend, playing fetch in the surf |
Couples and friends enjoy the low tide at sunset. |
Beta Capricorn has just reappeared a couple of minutes ago, on the bright side of the moon. This was an extreme crop, and the thumbnail made by just changing pixels/inch to 72. click to see the 300dpi version |
The lights of the Dream Inn reflecting off the sand |
The iconic Giant Dipper, famous from the movie "The Lost Boys", reflected in the quiet tidelands of the San Lorenzo River. |
10mm fisheye shot (out of focus, so no closeup!) |
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Twilight ending; the moon above Beta Capricorn, and left of Alpha Capricorn, at 200mm zoom, cropped |
It's 2014... the world it's a changin'. But I'm still feeling good, and looking forward to more explorations with friends and with Nature.
