I intentionally focused on the stump leaving the background out of focus. The tree stump is a focus stack of 8 images. I wanted to have the stump as well as the grass growing out of the top in focus. What drew me to this were the beautiful swirls in the the wood and how they almost mirrored the swirl pattern in the grass growing around it.
The last little bit of sun peeks over the mountian range. The beautiful light and the amazing patterns in the mudflats made for a perfect sunset picture. This was shot from the Glenn Alps/Flat top hillside using my 150-600mm Tamron.According to Google maps the distance is around 47 miles to the mountains