3 Shots: Storm Over First Landing

Today in Virginia Beach, it's a healthy 37 and raining.  Yesterday, however, it was 78 and sunny, and so I went to First Landing State Park around sunset to take some pictures.  I ventured off trail, and between extricating my feet from freezing mud and extricating my legs from dense thickets of concertina-like greenbriar, I managed to snag a few nice shots.  Here's three:

During the whole hike I experience exactly 30 seconds of direct sunlight, during which I took 7 pictures.  This is the best one.

Apparently these are called God rays, and for some reason they came out very orange in my pictures, which wasn't at all what I was going for.  So I made them black and white.

It was a choice between this one or a strangely attractive tree for the third shot - both were silhouetted against the same sky.  In the end I went for this one because I really like the angle of the stump. 

Bonus picture!  My leg afterwards.