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Coastal lights #3

Streetlights on the North Wales coast from the Sychnant Pass

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We're still on the coastal ridge path behing Conway, North Wales, walking back to the car in the gathering twilight having watched the sun go down over the Great Orme by Llandudno.

I love twilight, that time at dawn and dusk when the sky goes through a myriad changes culminating in either sunrise or the onset of night.

This particular time we had witnessed a beautiful sunset and dusk, and there was just a hint of light left on the western horizon when I stopped to take this shot.

What inspired me to make this image was just the hint of artifically lit dual carrigeway (the A55 again) juxtaposed against the brooding mass of Penmaenmawr, sort of a metaphor for the fragile but unconquerable nature of light.

As it says about Jesus in the Bible - The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not overcome it.

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Filename - coast lights 03.jpg

Camera - Canon 5D

Lens - 100-400mm zoom @ 100mm

Exposure - 1.6secs @ f18, ISO800

Location - Sychnant Pass, North Wales

This image - 640x800px JPEG

Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2

Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera movement.