Utthita Trikonasana

Utthita Trikonasa
Swami's beach, San Diego, CA
January, 2011

I've been studying yoga for a couple of years now.  OK, "studying" is a pretty strong word considering how infrequently I get to class these days, but I love it all the same.

My teacher and good friend, Cynthia Miranda, is working on a blog of her own.  She asked me to photograph her, both to demonstrate various yoga asanas (poses), and to try to capture the spiritual side of yoga.

We went down to Swami's beach about an hour before sunset.  Early in the shoot, the light was cold and blue, but soon the sun found a gap in the clouds and came shining through, warm and glowing.

This first shot captures both the beauty of the asana and the atmospheric locale.