But tonight I was looking at some photos that I took a few summers ago, when my daughter and I walked around the Castle Hill Estate. It was August and the sky was overcast. I found this image among the photos I took that day. ...
The color in this shot is just as it came out of the camera. All I had to do was crop the photo to get the composition. Now I have a nice souvenir of a very short but sweet vacation in Maine.
So I drew this scene from my imagination with no specific location in mind. Is it a mountain lake in Colorado? a beach in Brazil? the California coast? the beach in "Lost"? It doesn't matter, because the real vacation spot was Starbucks ...