The last sunrise of winter

I'm sure I've used that title before, but it is what it is. 

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My favourite trees

Corfe Castle, Isle of Purbeck, is at the end of today's 8 mile ramble with my camera through the Dorset countryside. The weather has been very good all the way, and the ever changing sky has produced some wonderful light for landscape photography.

It looked like the heavens were about to open as I arrived, but the rain held off and after thirty minutes or so the sun broke through the clouds once more.

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Just after sunrise

                                                                            Branksome Chine beach, Poole Bay.

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What more can I say?

                                                                                           Low tide at sunset.

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I give up

Sea and landscape photography is all about the light. Stating the obvious, I fancy, but being able to accurately predict weather conditions plays a major part in the success or failure of a shoot. I'm currently using two web sites in an attempt to get reliable forecasts: the UK's Met Office, and more recently, AccuWeather. 

Today they contradict each other (as is often the case); one advises me of 95% cloud cover all day, the other indicates sun and showers, but during late afternoon. Both, as it turns out, are wrong for the most part.

Unable to garner any useful information from what's on offer I set out before dawn regardless, if only for the enjoyment of the walk, and am presented with the above scene about an hour after sunrise.

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Tearing it up

An unexpected break in the cloud cover on a morning walk gives me shifting pools of light to work with. Two exuberant dogs complete the scene.

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