Santa Barbara often experiences morning fog that will partially or completely obscure the beautiful Channel Islands that lie about 25 miles offshore. This photo was taken at dawn, looking out over the Santa Barbara Channel, with Anacapa island peaking above the fog in the distance. I often take photos at sunrise here because the combination of ending blue hour and emerging daylight with fog can create some remarkable colors to light up the coastal scene, as they did here. I chose a very long lens for this shot to isolate the fishing vessel just before it entered the fog bank. The fog bank, island, and cloud layers are greatly compressed and appear to loom over boat.