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As you move west along the North Wales coast, from the border with England that runs along the estuary of the river Dee, the first beach you arrive at is Talacre.
This is a popular spot with day trippers and weekenders, who come to enjoy the endless sands and extensive dune systems that line the coast.
This is also a popular spot for photographers, not least due to the strange abandoned lighthouse that sticks incongruously out of the beach.
Time hasn't been kind to this relic, and it has now adopted a noticable lean to one side as the soft sands shift endlessly around the concrete plug on which it sits.
Anyhow, all this oddness only serves to make the lighthouse and its surroundings highly photogenic, and I've many photos taken here displayed either on this website or in my image library.
On this occasion I was blessed to have a large piece of driftwood on the beach, which had been washed up by a previous high tide, that provided a great foreground to set the distant lighthouse off against.
When I took the photo it was around midday, and the light was quite harsh, which suited me on this occasion as I was planning to convert the image to monochrome even as I took it, and the higher contrast made for enhanced tonality in the final image.
The finishing touch for me was the sand blowing along the beach which put stripes of light and dark in the foreground. Not good for changing lenses in though!
Filename - lighthouse 38.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 40mm
Exposure - 1/50sec @ f11, ISO100
Location - Talacre, North Wales
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - Tripod, mirror lockup and cable release used to prevent camera movement.
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