I almost did not go out for a photoprowl yesterday, though my stock of recent material for Pic 4 Today is getting low. The day started out with promise, but by the time I got out of church, the sun had gone and banks of heavy cloud had come over. Still, when my wife announced that she was going for a walk on the beach, I decided to break away from the computer and join her. Good choice.

It was indeed gloomy, moody, and atmospheric on the beach, but there was light along the horizon for contrast and interesting reflections of the cloud mass in the wet beach. This is looking a bit west of south, out over Wells and Ogunquit. That little bump on the right is Mount Agamenticus (in case you thought I was kidding yesterday when I said tall hills in Southern Maine are called mountains). It is a low angle shot, taken from about 6 inches above the sand…I am ever thankful for the flip out lcd on today’s superzooms.

Canon SX40HS at 24mm equivalent field of view. f4 @ 1/640th @ ISO 125. Program with iContrast and –1/3EV exposure compensation. Metered on the horizon.

Processed in Lightroom for Intensity and Sharpness. I used a Graduated Filter effect to lighten both the foreground and the sky. The frame was added in Picasa, something I next to never do, but the tone of the image was just too close to the tone of the background here for effective display.