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Stars over Surfers' Point, Ventura, California

Stars over Surfers' Point, Ventura, California

Waves crash on the beach as stars pass overhead on a cool, windy night at Surfers' Point in Ventura, California. The glow of the iconic oil rigs can be see...
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Waves crash on the beach as stars pass overhead on a cool, windy night at Surfers' Point in Ventura, California. The glow of the iconic oil rigs can be seen in the distance while foreground lights of varying color temperatures provide eerily colorful illumination. This is a single image from a coastal time lapse shot between 12-1:30am.
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Canon EOS 7D

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Aperture f/2.8 ISO 1250 Shutter 15/1 Focal Length 16/1

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Feb, 2015

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