Persistence also pays off handsomely, after two weeks of returning to the same location in search of a good sunset photograph at low tide. Low water is due late in the afternoon, and I walk west along the shoreline of Poole bay, Dorset, for a mile or so, snapping waves and cloud patterns, with the intention of timing my arrival at a favourite spot to coincide with the event.
It's a spring tide, the lowest of the month, and the required tide pools and expanses of flat, wet sand are all in place at the location I want to shoot at; but the sky isn't. Well, it's where it should be - up above - but not interesting.
I decide to stick it out and hope nature delivers before the tide turns and I'm forced to retreat; and it does - in spades. I make a good number of images as the sun drops below the cloud bank to produce a dramatic sky that reflects superbly in my chosen pool. Perfection.
12-24mm f/4G AF-S Nikkor. 1/500 second at f/11. - 0.67 EV compensation. ISO 200
© 2012
3 comments:
Your photograph is, indeed, perfection.
Stunning.
Thank you, Pixie and Dusty. I am rather pleased with this one, myself. :-) Your comments are most welcome.
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