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A late afternoon sun picks out details in the rocky foreshore as my wife Liz and I stroll along the trail that runs around the Alwen reservoir in North Wales.
Originally built to supply water to Birkenhead, the dam at the east end of the reservoir is quite a photogenic structure, especially near sunset when the warm, low angled light causes the stone structure to glow with a mellow golden hue.
I stood in this one spot for about five minutes, waiting patiently for a single cumulus cloud to drift into position over the pine woodlands at the far side of the waters to complete this composition in which the eye follows the foreshore, then goes along the line of the dam, ending up at the cloud.
A simple, but effective, arrangement.
Filename - alwen reservoir dam 01.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 32mm
Exposure - 1/20 sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Alwen Reservoir, North Wales
This image - 800x640px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - Polarising filter used to enhance colours
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