{"id":1487,"date":"2015-05-22T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/purelightphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:53:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T14:53:25","slug":"sunset-from-the-top-of-the-hill-santa-rosa-landscape-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/2015\/05\/22\/sunset-from-the-top-of-the-hill-santa-rosa-landscape-photographer\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunset from the Top of the Hill | Santa Rosa Landscape Photographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of hiking up the hill behind Kick Ranch in Santa Rosa. \u00a0UP the hill, like a deer, scrambling over rocks, and slipping on shale, UP the hill. \u00a0My friend Don took me up to a place that he goes to photograph the sunset. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0There was a heavy cloud cover that evening, but a break right at the horizon. \u00a0We sat and talked and waited for &#8220;the moment&#8221; when the sun would be in that sweet spot. \u00a0What a sweet spot it turned out to be. \u00a0But the cloud cover made for interesting shots as the sun approached the break.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the approaching hazy sunshine, I love how the hills over Riebli Valley flatten and how each is it&#8217;s own shade of the same color. \u00a0Look closely to the left, and you&#8217;ll see two birds in flight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purelightphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StackedHills-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1488\" src=\"http:\/\/purelightphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StackedHills-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"StackedHills-web-1\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StackedHills-web-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StackedHills-web-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StackedHills-web-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/StackedHills-web-1-904x603.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then once the sun sank into the break between cloud cover and sunset, wow, just wow. \u00a0Love where we live, love the new friendship with Don &amp; Jen!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/purelightphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SunsetOverRiebli-web-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1489\" src=\"http:\/\/purelightphotography.goodgallery.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SunsetOverRiebli-web-1.jpg\" alt=\"SunsetOverRiebli-web-1\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SunsetOverRiebli-web-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SunsetOverRiebli-web-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SunsetOverRiebli-web-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/SunsetOverRiebli-web-1-904x603.jpg 904w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These images are available for sale on my website: <a title=\"Pure Light Photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.purelightphotography.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/www.purelightphotography.net\/<\/a>\u00a0Click &#8220;Galleries &amp; Store&#8221; to see many of my favorite landscape and fine art images available in prints, gallery wrap canvas prints, and standouts. \u00a0Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, I had the pleasure of hiking up the hill behind Kick Ranch in Santa Rosa. \u00a0UP the hill, like a deer, scrambling over rocks, and slipping on shale, UP the hill. \u00a0My friend Don took me up to a place that he goes to photograph the sunset. \u00a0Wow. \u00a0There was a heavy cloud [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","content-columns-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1493,"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelightphotography.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}