The Golden Hour

In photography, the Golden Hour occurs just after sunrise and shortly before sunset. Some days the better light manages to be just a little bit better than other days. I experienced an exceptional sunset while walking the beach and took the above shell photo, and the shorebird, along with many others.

The Ghost Crab appeared just after sunrise on another better than average day. The gold of the sun appears on the sand mound just to its left. Mornings tended to be cold during this visit, and this guy turned out to be the only one I saw, or at least the only one who wasn’t a blur as they quickly ran into their burrows, though it is apparent by the pose that he was just waiting for me to move. When I did, he disappeared.