Aerial

Coastal Ridgeline

Aerial

Ridgelines running out to the sea at golden hour, flown for the layers rather than the height.

Location
Northern California coast
Services
Aerial photography · FAA Part 107 flight
Frames
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Aerial view of coastal ridgelines at golden hour

Altitude on its own is not interesting. What makes a ridgeline photograph is haze: each successive ridge is lighter than the one in front of it, and the frame reads as distance instead of as a hill.

Flown low into the sun at the end of the day, which is when the separation between the ridges is strongest and the shadows still have shape in them.