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Port de Soller Panorama #3

Panoramic image looking over Port de Soller at sunset, on the west coast of Mallorca, with the Sierra de Tramuntana mountains in the background

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Dramatic evening light at Port de Soller on the west coast of Mallorca as a rare bank of cloud sweeps in from the Mediterranean.

This is the sort of lighting condition that really gets my photographic juices flowing, so I was so glad to be in the right place at the right time to capture this scene in the fleeting few minutes before the cloud covered the setting sun and everything turned to grey.

My wife Liz and I had just finished our evening meal down in a restaurant on the promenade and were wondering where to go next when I noticed the cloud on the horizon.

Fortuately we knew of this viewpoint by the lighthouse, overlooking Port de Soller, having been up here on a previous visit.

So with no time to waste we headed up the winding road to the top of the headland where I took the nine images required to make this panoramic stitch, just before the light failed.

I think, of all the many photos I took in and around Port de Soller, this is my favourite, simply because of the stunning lighting.

One of those fleeting moments that you will probably never see again, except in a photograph.

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Image data

Filename - mallorca port de soller panorama 03.jpg

Camera - Canon 6D

Lens - 24-105mm zoom @ 50mm

Exposure - 1/80 sec @ f11, ISO100

Location - Port de Soller, Mallorca, Spain

This image - 1200x347px JPEG

Conversion - Adobe Lightroom and PhotoShop CC

Comments - Panorama made up of multiple exposures, stitched together