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Glass Beach

© Chris Budny
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Glass Beach

Uploaded: September 08, 2015 | Entered: December 28, 2015 18:13:09

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A small beach at Fort Bragg has become "Glass Beach" with most of the beach area made up of small bits of tumbled glass. (The beach, or rather the cliff leading down to it, was a dumping-over ground for the city's rubbish decades ago. A photo at the entry shows an old car, Model T era, being rolled over the cliff!) The glass bits, and a few other larger remnants of this bygone dumping, make up the beach today, worn down by decades of battering surf.) I placed one glass pebble on a log and blurred out the glistening beach of glass in the background.

Exif: F Number: 18, Exposure Bias Value: 0.67, ExposureTime: 1/1250 seconds, Flash: did not fire, compulsory flash mode, ISO: 400, White balance: Auto white balance, FocalLength: 300.00 mm, Model: Canon EOS 6D

Comments

Michele Peterson level-classic September 09, 2015

I love collecting sea glass. This really caught my eye as a thumbnail with all that shimmery bokeh/glass ~ That's a lot of glass! Great image, Chris. :-) #1628939

Amanda D. Austwick level-classic September 09, 2015

I haven't been to the beach in awhile, but I really like how effective this image is. #11356918

Chris Budny level-deluxe September 10, 2015

Thank you both! Michele - they had a sign at the entrance, pleading with folks not to take any glass off the beach; something like 1/2 of the original glass is now gone, just since 1980. It was very hard to resist the urge to take a piece or two, but I settled on the photo instead of the real thing ;) #11357270

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