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Late-Afternoon Sun
Kouri Island, Okinawa, Japan
Going over some pictures from our recent trip to Okinawa, I was disappointed with those from our visit to Kouri Island, a small island a bit more than a mile in circumference off the northwestern coast of Okinawa. It's an island that has, more or less, nothing for tourists except the bridge leading to it, which is pretty.
I hadn't even looked at the pictures until today, and when I did, I was depressed by a lot of flat boringness that didn't really reflect the dynamic nature of the weather and the interesting landscape.
Until I came across this one.
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Wow! You can actually see the sunbeam come down out of the sky onto the bridge! Very nice.
I really like it . Should be a postcard.
Beautiful ! Landscape, clouds, bridge are just simple, just natural, but this light, this single sunbeam saying “look! here it is !”, like a finger pointing the bridge from the sky…