What are we looking at again?

 Here is a cropped version of a photo that I took today.  I was kind of surprised that different sections of the image had a passing resemblance to other things. One cropped portion of the photo it looks like a long exposure of a densely packed starfield within the Milky Way. 

  Or it could be a close-up of an amber colored adult beverage being poured into a tall glass, as a different cropped section of the same photo seems to indicate.

  But actually the uncropped photo shows that it's really a five foot wave crashing into the rocks lining the south pier of Ludington Harbor, while being strongly backlit by the early morning sun.