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The Marine Lake at West Kirby can be a surreal sort of place.
Depending on the state of the tide you can walk around the outer wall of the lake and have water on one side while seemingly endless miles of wet sand stretch out across the Dee estuary on the other.
Or if the tide is in you can find yourself on a narrow causeway, seemingly in the middle of the sea.
This particular evening was a tide out affair, as my wife Liz and I made out way around the sea wall, basking in the setting sun as we went and enjoying the view as the wet sand caught the light.
About a third of the way around the outer wall stands this jetty, so we paused while I took this photo of the jetty in silhouette against the sun.
To enhance the sunburst effect I closed my lens down to its smallest aperture and dialled in a significant amount of negative exposure compensation which resulted in this rather pleasing contre-jour effect.
Filename - jetty sun 02.jpg
Camera - Nikon D3100
Lens - 18-55mm zoom @ 30mm
Exposure - 1/640 sec @ f25, ISO100
Location - West Kirby Marine Lake, Wirral
This image - 533x800px JPEG
Conversion - Adobe Lightroom
Comments - -2ev exposure compensation used to preserve highlights.
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