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The low angled rays of the setting sun pick out details in the foreground rocks as I wonder at the beauty and stillness of the scene before me at Penmon Point, the easternmost tip of Anglsey on the North Wales coast.
Just a few hundred metres off the coast lies Puffin Island, now a Special Protection Area because of the seabirds that next there.
In the warm evening light the island glows like a jewel on the sea, and the faint cries of the gulls sound mournfully across the open water as they wheel through the sky over the shallow water of the Menai Straits stretched out before me.
Incongrously perched on the rocks, Penmon lighthouse rears out of the sea just a few metres away, its white and black striped body picking up the last of the light as the suns sinks lower and lower towards its destiny with the horizon.
And there I am, camera on tripod, just drinking in the scene before me and, almost as an afterthought, pressing the shutter release.
Filename - lighthouse 44.jpg
Camera - Canon 5D
Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 24mm
Exposure - 1/2sec @ f16, ISO100
Location - Penmon Point, Anglesey, North Wales
This image - 800x450px JPEG
Conversion - ACR & PS-CS2
Comments - ND grad filter used to balance exposure.
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