I made this view of Crescent City’s rocky harbor from an overlook many miles away. Using a long telephoto lens, I compress a string of rocky islands that line the Pacific coast into a unified pattern upon a sea streaked in shadow and light. The evening sun, hiding behind the storm clouds overhead, adds a golden aura to he scene. The island at left has a single cypress tree. Next to it stands the silhouette of the historic 1856 Battery Point Light House. I made this image as both a vertical and horizontal, and selected the vertical because the tall frame intensifies the compression of the string of islands.