Morning On the Dunes

I started experimenting with the photography style known as HDR on a trip to the Santa Barbara area a couple of years ago.  Those early experiments were on a beach near Goleta and not too far from the campus of UCSB.  I was back in the area recently and got a chance to visit the same spot.  I shot a number of pier and beach photos which I'll share someday but the most interesting view to me this time was a slightly different perspective shot from the end of the pier toward the rising sun over top of these little green plants that grow in the sand.  Update:  I've since learned those 'little green plants' are called Ice Plant.