This photograph captures the lightness and clarity of this blue and platinum day. The colors are neutrals: greys, blue-greys, tans, white, khaki, and beige---all the colors of sand, sea and wood---against the sky (that clear blue that is soft rather than brilliant). I love the way it shades into that silvery violet near the horizon. This is an effect I always wanted to capture and never succeeded in doing.
'Jacksonville Beach, Florida' by Kevin Trotman/The Rocketeer | See his other photographs here | See the larger version of this image at Flickr here

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