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The sun had just set over the headland at Penmaenmawr on the North Wales coast and my wife Liz and I were sitting on the promenade at Deganwy watching and photographing as the twilight sky went through a beautiful and delicate transformation from day to night, reflecting in the calm waters of the Conwy estuary below.
Some sunsets are spectacular, some sunsets are boring, some sunsets don't happen at all (that you can see from the ground anyway).
But some sunsets, like this one, just gently lift you into a place of calm thoughtfulness, wondering at God's grace and wisdom in creating light in all its facets.
However, my calm thoughtfulness was puncuated by the need to make exposure adjustments on my Canon 6D as I was shooting hundreds of RAW files during this sunset, later to be used in the production of my time lapse video Sunset Time Lapse 14.
This still image is just one of those frames shot for the video, but well worth enjoying in its own right.
Filename - deganwy sunset 01.jpg
Camera - Canon EOS 6D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 28mm
Exposure - 1/4 sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Deganwy, North Wales
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop CC
Comments - Neutral density graduated filter used to darken the sky
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