August 27, 2014 Malibu coast and night sky

I took more than 500 images along the coast on my Wednesday outing.  And, no, I don’t do those silly automatic “clickclickclcickclickclickclick-in-four-tenths-of-a-second” shots and count all of those.  These are normal, one-at-a-time shots.  So, instead of stuffing a zillion awesome images into one post, I am breaking the August 27 bonanza of images into two posts.  The other SB post for this day is the “surfer” edition, and this one is more of the “artsy” late-day edition — the sunset at El Matador Beach.  You might be wondering where the sun is in these sunset shots.  Well, it is behind the Santa Monica Mountains.  In summer at Malibu, the sun does not set over the Pacific Ocean.  Don’t come to Malibu in the summer to watch the sun set over the water unless you want to be bitterly disappointed.

As a bonus and at no extra expense to you, I am sharing an additional six pictures!  I stopped on a high road turnout above the coastline as darkness descended.  The Milky Way was quite nice to the south, and Point Dume and Palos Verdes were photogenic to the southeast.