La Jolla Aloe Arborescens

At sunrise, I had intended to photograph the full moon setting over Hospital Reef in La Jolla, but the surf was incredibly rough and the reef unsafe, so I walked around looking for different compositions while the sky turned beautiful shades of pink and orange. Aloe Arborescens, a signature plant of much of the California coast, blooms brilliantly in winter, and made for a nice foreground element.
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