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What Ocean Is This?

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What Ocean Is This?

I set up my canopy in my daughter's front yard during the local Apple Festival this fall. I had a set of sunrise pictures that I had taken in the summer from 'The Bump' overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway, not too far from town. The day that I decided to venture up there turned out to be perfect for capturing some beautiful pre-dawn and sunrise shots, with low-lying clouds visible in the valleys below. A visitor was browsing at my collection and asked "What ocean is this?" while pointing to this image, which was not labelled. It was in fact titled "An Ocean of Clouds", but she didn't know that. When I explained what she was actually looking at, she leaned in a bit closer and uttered "Oh my goodness!".

Turns out, that was the first time that I saw the scene as she had seen it. Knowing where I had taken the picture and the relationship of the various visual components, I had never seen it as anything but low-lying clouds below my vantage point.