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These days, my phone is with me almost everywhere, and I find myself constantly framing photographs in my mind. As I walk through the world, I see things that catch my eye and instinctively reach for the phone. Most of those photographs never go anywhere. They look interesting in the moment, but when I look at them later, they don't quite translate into the image I imagined or want to share.
Every once in a while, though, one does.
This was one of those photographs.
I was visiting a friend who lived aboard his boat in the marina in Ensenada, Mexico. I had walked to the bathrooms, which were quite a distance from the boat—one of those small realities of spending a week living aboard a boat. On my way back, I noticed the morning light beginning to fill the marina.
I stopped.
The combination of yellow sunlight and deep blue tones caught my attention. There was something about the way the colors were blending together that made the scene feel almost surreal.
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