For everyone local to Orange County, there is the ever popular phrase “May Gray, June Gloom.” And for the five years we have lived here it has always made its grand appearance. The actual gloom is really the marine layer that comes over the ocean and spreads over all the towns nearby. That thick, gray cloud coverage rushes in like clockwork sometime during the evening and lingers until around noon the next day. You then get a few hours of beautiful sunshine, only to be met by another layer that same evening. For ever sunny California it’s actually a most welcomed time here for most. That cloud coverage does wonders in what would usually be some hot months, giving us instead some amazing temperatures where we can play all day outside without breaking a sweat! For photography, however, they are the months that I generally look forward to the least. It is so hard to plan what to do as we can think it’s going to be a perfect sunset, and then watch as the dark gray mass comes sweeping in right before we start our shoot.
I took the month of May off this year as baby girl was just born. :) Starting back up again mid month, I had five sessions for June and was fully prepared to embrace the soft blues that the layer lends. But nature seemed to want to treat me extra kindly all five days, bringing in some amazing sun breaking right in the middle of those “gloom” clouds. We were gifted with the most beautiful shades of light and color! How I got so lucky I do not know, but no complaints over on this end! I like to think it was the families themselves, filled with so much happy sunshine they simply chased those clouds away. :)
