Possibly “The crown jewel of the California State Park System”, Point Lobos is about as good as it gets along California’s coastline. Landscape Painter Francis McComas called Point Lobos “the greatest meeting of land and water in the world.”
Located at Carmel, the park is highly protected because of its natural wonders, above and below the surface of the water.
That’s what landscape artist Francis McComas said about this spot along the Pacific Ocean Coastline at Carmel, California. Point Lobos State Natural Reserve became part of California’s State Park system in 1933. They only allow 150 vehicles in the park at any given time in order to preserve its tranquility.
Occasionally the scene presents itself for a little camera painting. I’m looking for vertical or horizontal shapes that I can move the camera parallel with during exposure. See previous post
The Cypress Trees and Paintbrush blooms at Point Lobos made for worthy subjects.
The swells a few weeks ago were crashing pretty high along California’s Pacific Ocean Coastline. Fortunately these two people were not hit by these massive waves and swept to sea.
Ocean scene at Point Lobos State Natural Reserve at Carmel, California. Watch in Full Screen at Hi-Def. Still photos to follow soon!
These Double-Crested Cormorants at Point Lobos, California can fly. But did you know that the Flightless Cormorants on the Galapagos Islands don’t fly. They have evolved so they don’t have to fly because there are no predators on the islands they inhabit. Of course, Darwin told us about this with his Theory of Evolution. The heart of Darwin’s controversial theory lies in the idea of natural selection. It states that variation exists in any animal population and within species. The same process of natural selection that applies to individual animals also applies to entire species. A species with numerous individuals well adapted to their environment will survive and prosper. So the Cormorants in the Galapagos don’t need to fly while these Cormorants in California do need to fly because of predators. Both species are excellent swimmers and divers with large web feet with fish being their main diet source.
This image I shot at Point Lobos at Carmel, California shows a distorted sun at sunset. The top of the solar disc is a mirage, an optical phenomenon in which distant objects may seem distorted. Mirages of this type occur at high latitudes when a warm layer of air rests on a cold layer. The light rays coming from an object (here the Sun) are bent down from the warm layer producing the distorted image. And by the way, the sun appears red at sunset because of particulates in the atmosphere (which the suns rays must travel through at sunset) cause blue light to scatter and leaving the sun red.
