This is the view from the back porch of the apartment where my wife stays in Paso Robles, while she is there working at a local hospital as a nurse. I personally wanted to go trekking around all the land there, but everything belongs to someone and everyone owns guns so I figured I shouldn’t do that. But this, from a back porch, is astounding. I could not get over it.
I wanted a better view of the sunlight as it set on that vineyard that is dead center but all of the roads are much lower than the actual cultivated land so I couldn’t get up there. But it’s still beautiful.
3 stop graduated ND filter plus a polarizer. Allowed the foreground to come out with good detail while making the sky nice and controlled.
The truly amazing thing is that, again, this is from her patio. This incredible view, right there. And at night, I can see more stars than I did while I was in Death Valley. I could almost make out the entire Big Dipper and could find the North Star almost immediately.
That’s a great pic! The sky contrasting with the land, not to mention the play of light, work so well together! That is quite a vista.