Sliver of Light
Location: Rodeo Beach, Ca
Field Notes: Canon EOS 1, 18mm 30 sec @ f/14 ISO 100
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During the winter of 2006 I had just moved from Yosemite to my hometown in the Bay Area where I had grown up. I decided to visit the coast which was relatively unexplored by me. Yosemite and the mountains had always been my obsession and I had not spent much time on the coast.
I started out on a small roadtrip and my first stop was the Marin Headlands. Down on one of the beaches I found these towers that grow straight out of the water. Earlier, when the tide was lower, I had spent the day scrambling on the sea cliffs and walking through the tide pools.
Once sunset approached, a thin cloud cover began to form leaving only a small sliver of the days last light far off in the distance. Once I had all my equipment set up and began making exposures, there was a problem. A very large ship coming out of the San Francisco Bay moved directly into my frame! Worst of all, it was moving extremely slow, and I knew the light would be gone before the ship would be. Just as the sun touched the horizon and lit up the sliver of sky, the ship moved behind one of the larger towers and I made this image.
-Jeffrey Murray
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