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The northwest coast of Anglesey is a great place to be at sunset, on the rare occasions that it's not completely clouded over that is!
Of all the great sunset locations, Church Bay is one of my favourites, as in summer the sun sets just about square on to the beach, leaving a lovely, lingering glow on the horizon for about an hour and a half after the sun has disappeared.
On this particular evening the tide was coming in, covering the sandy beach and washing around the many and varied rocks that are embedded in the sand.
The combination of orange sky at the horizon set against the twilight mauve of the heavens above which was reflecting in the sea was just gorgeous, and I spent a happy half hour exploring different compositions of sky, rock and sea to photograph.
I'd only recently taken delivery of a 6 stop neutral density filter, which I put to good use to achieve lengthy exposure times of around two minutes, creating an ethereal effect in the waves swirling around the legs of my tripod and allowing the water to pick up the blue of the night sky.
Filename - church bay dusk 01.jpg
Camera - Canon 6D
Lens - 17-40mm zoom @ 17mm
Exposure - 120 secs, f8, ISO100
Location - Church Bay, Anglesey
This image - 800x533px JPEG
Processing - Adobe Lightroom CC
Comments - Six stop neutral density filter used to prolong exposure
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