Yes it's the beach at Hayle, Cornwall again but please stick with it.
We spent a good, but largely wet week in Hayle this Summer. The sunsets are always spectacular as the sun disappears behind St. Ives and given that we were camping 3 minutes walk away from the beach, I was hoping to get plenty of opportunities to capture it perfectly.
The weather didn't oblige in the way I was expecting, but it did provide other opportunities. The generally stormy days meant the sea was a little angry in the evenings. I was hoping to capture a sunset, backlit clouds all with the added bonus of a mirrored image in the calm, wet sand. In my mind it was perfect.
There was no calm, but there was a decent surf. With the incoming tide, there were plenty of people body-boarding and even surfing (not seen that in Hayle before) well into the evening. Perfect.
This shot was taken on the way down to the beach from Beachside Holiday Park and it immediately jumped out at me as I turned the corner.
There was a small clump of people enjoying the last of the light, and they were perfectly silhouetted by the setting sun. The fabulous EF16-35mm gave me the wide angle, ensuring that the wooden edges of the path gave me the leading lines I was looking for.
(Canon 5D MkII, Canon EF16-35mm f/2.8L II USM @ 16mm, f/16, 1/60)
The rest of the images from that evening were fine, but this unplanned shot was easily my favourite. Funny how that works out sometimes.
No comments:
Post a Comment