My typical workflow after a day of shooting, or even after an extended trip, consists of downloading all the images from my compact flash cards, or perhaps off my portable hard drive.   I will then use an image browser to start the culling process.   After the edit, I will then selectively pick some images to do some post processing on, perhaps upload to the site gallery here, or maybe even make a print or two.   Then time gets away from me, and the remaining images in those folders tend to sit.  In the “old” days, they would be slides sitting in boxes or pages to go through another day.   Now they sit in a directory on my hard drive.   Often I am surprised at how long it may be before I come back to that folder of images again.

Since the ocean is one of my favorite places to be, it is hard for me to imagine leaving any shots behind, but this one just happened to catch my eye today while I was wandering through some of those older folders.  The exposure was made April 28, 2004, 8:35 PM.  (You have to love digital capture – you always know when the shot was made..to the minute.)   I know I shot a dozen or more compositions of these rocks that evening as the sun was setting behind some pretty stormy clouds in La Jolla, California.   The light was beautiful and constantly changing with the moving surf.   I imagine I processed a few of my initial favorites, and just left the rest until later.  This one escaped me, until today.