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Arch Rock Sunset

Arch Rock Sunset is an image taken in Sonoma Coast State Park along Goat Rock Road. The Arch Rock Sunset image is captured on a December day just after the winter solstice. Goat Rock Road and the view of an Arch Rock Sunset is a destination I enjoy.

On this particular day in December it was a cold day at the coast. Winter temperatures and a strong breeze made for a bitter cold and chill in the air. But a view like an Arch Rock Sunset can make a photographer feel warm in such a cold breeze.

A fog bank can often be seen from the view along Goat Rock Road. Sometimes the drive out from my home in Santa Rosa, California can end in disappointment when I get the urge to photograph along the road. Sometimes the sun will just disappear into the fog bank and make a photographer wonder what a grand sunset it would have been without that persistent fog bank.

But sometimes on a winter day an image like Arch Rock Sunset can be captured by a camera. In the winter a cold breeze flowing down from the Gulf of Alaska can clear out the fog bank and also bring high clouds in the sky stretching off in the horizon.

When these clouds are in the sky an image like Arch Rock Sunset is available to photograph for a Landscape Photographer.

Arch Rock and the other sea stacks in the Sonoma Coast State Park are subject to constant marine and wind erosion. The sea stacks along the Sonoma Coast at Goat Rock Beach are formed of rocks from the Franciscan Complex, formed by an area of plate collision along the western coast of North America.

Someday the wind and sea will erode Arch Rock. But for now on a cold December day, with winter clouds in the distance and a setting sun lighting the sky; it is available for photographing an Arch Rock Sunset.