Clouds at Night, North Wales Coast

Clouds at Night #1

Underlit clouds at night over the lights of the Colwyn Bay windfarm on the North Wales coast

The story behind this image

A dramatic night time cloudscape was well worth pulling off the A55 at Llandulas to photograph, on our way home from an evening on the North Wales coast.

Normally I would shun areas of obvious light pollution when photographing at night, but on this occasion I welcomed the lurid yellow glow on the clouds from the lights of the coastal strip, as I knew that that would give me a great colour contrast against the deep blue of the night sky.

But the image wouldn't be complete without a point of interest, and in this case the red anti-collision beacons of the Colwyn Bay windfarm dotted along the horizon provide a great delineation between the sky and sea, giving a natural resting point for the viewer's eye after having taken in those amazing clouds.

One occasion where light pollution actually helped a night photograph.

Image data

Filename - clouds night 01.jpg

Camera - Canon EOS 6D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm

Exposure - 15 secs @ f4, ISO6400

Location - Llandulas, North Wales

This image - 800x533px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom

Comments - Tripod used to prevent camera movement