Incomparable in beauty and life to any past hike I’ve experienced before, the 14 kilometer coastal hike to The Point brought out an overly enthusiastic energy for photography that I hadn’t yet realized was inside me. The electric blue water thrashing sheets of bright white– the kind of white you only see in Crest toothpaste ads - pounding against the bright oranges and deep reds of the rocky coastline, forming a breathtaking sight that no photographer could walk away from without heavily curious fingers. Lacking speed for the first hour due to awe and utter excitement, Fiona and I couldn’t help but to view everything with the lens as our eyes. No less than half a kilometer behind our impatient comrades, we didn’t allow a single photo-op to pass. We experimented with different perspectives of the bulging rock formations as well as practiced time lapses of waves turning into cascading waterfalls on the face of the coastal rocks.
By the last kilometer of the St. Blaze Trail, the distant sights of enormous pods of dolphins, the never-ending bright colors, and the kind warmth of the sun breathing on our skin, allowed us to entirely forget about our throbbing knees, runny noses and fatigued bodies. So worth it. Needless to say, the natural beauty of this coastal wonderland combined with my newly-learned, perfect manual settings brought me great joy when I returned through my pictures to see only the bare minimum of editing was needed for any given photograph.
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